Organise your writing part 3

This post explains how to correlate or link up the writing that you have saved by printing, it with the copy that you have saved on your computer or portable storage device.

It’s a continuation of my previous posts organise your writing and organise your writing part 2.
Part 1 explains the advantages of printing your writing, as well as saving it on a computer.
Also in part 1 I explained that it’s preferable to give the title of your scenes and chapters a descriptive title rather than a number, eg. scene 7 chapter 11. I also explained that this title should be as short as possible.
The reason for this is, the scene or chapter is saved using exactly the same descriptive title that you used when you printed each scene or chapter of the story.
It’s preferable to use short file names rather than long file names because they are easier to find for one thing.

A practical example of this system of organising your writing, based on my own experiences

Here’s a practical example of how it works. You are writing a story and you have written let’s say 18 chapters of it. This has taken let’s say a couple of months.
Suddenly, two months later, something happens to you. You experience something that you can use in your story. You’re pretty sure that you can use it a certain scene or chapter of your story.
You know what the chapter is about but you can’t remember what chapter number it was.
Sounds familiar?
You can sift through each scene and chapter of your story, looking at the content of each scene and chapter in an attempt to find theone that you want.
Or you can just look at the descriptive title of each scene and chapter.
Which is easier?
It doesn’t matter whether you are looking at the printed version of the story or the version which is saved on your computer, it is far, far easier and far less time consuming to just look at the descriptive title of each scene and chapter.