Ok, I don't make lists of what posts are upcoming -- though I refer to those that Jane makes -- and I can't really keep track of what month it is.
However, I just made a spreadsheet of my personas -- PC, NPC, and those in my mind -- showing birthdates, physical features, crafts, family members, etc. This is intended to aid in creating new characters, so that I don't keep repeating traits.
Does anyone else do this?
Quote from: "Vix"However, I just made a spreadsheet of my personas ...
I believe you are turning into
Bree. I'm lists, linear checklists, plans, and schedules.
Bree is databases and spreadsheets.
When I'm organised I have my ducks in a
row - Bree would have hers in a
matrix.
Quote from: "Vix"Does anyone else do this?
The latest approved copy of each persona sheet simply sits in an email folder called 'Characters' and previous itterations are discarded. No extra spreadsheets for me!
Er - just remembered. Characters with complex backgrounds do have extra 'Notes' email files. R'haran, for instance, has a complex sort of history and I needed to know his age at each major event in the Triad scenario. His has a timeline in his Notes file.
Similarly, the riverboat has a schedule. And family tree.
Oh sh*t. :laughing5:
Quote from: "Vix"
However, I just made a spreadsheet of my personas -- PC, NPC, and those in my mind -- showing birthdates, physical features, crafts, family members, etc. This is intended to aid in creating new characters, so that I don't keep repeating traits.
Have you considered professional help?
I create my new personas in a word document. Then they sit there until I get them approved. I have about four unapproved characters sitting in my folder right now. I should get working.
Come to the darkside, Vix... the matrices love you... :D
I know nothing about spreadsheets nor how to use them for personas.
However, I do have lots of text files with unfinished or draft persona sheets, as well as detailed plans for how I want to torment a particular persona.
Okay, confession time here...I might even be more demented! :rollsmile: I have a matrix like Vix described but I aslo have columns for brief summary of current posts story/lines and potential/future SL. Particularly with NPCs, I want to be able to keep track. And I'm not generally an organized person...
I also have the text files many people have described with various character sketches/persona ideas who I have not yet submitted.
I usually copy over the text notes to my Word files of ongoing coposts so that I can refer to them.
In addition, I have separate folders within my Triad folder for possible personas, my personas, my posts, ready-to-post, and ongoing. The possible persona file containes a separate document file for each NPC and as I post something significant about that persona (or any other), I add a note to the document.
Man, and I'm just trying to keep it all sorted out in my head.... :cyclopsani:
All of this organization is because I can't keep it sorted out in my head. Last night I finished a post and couldn't remember what the persona's signature should look like, so I created a file of sigs for all of my characters, PC and NPC.
As to the spreadsheet, I've just started it and am still entering characters.
And Mikel: at least my personas have names that can be pronounced without spraining my tongue.[/i]
Quote from: "Vix"Ok, I don't make lists of what posts are upcoming -- though I refer to those that Jane makes -- and I can't really keep track of what month it is.
However, I just made a spreadsheet of my personas -- PC, NPC, and those in my mind -- showing birthdates, physical features, crafts, family members, etc. This is intended to aid in creating new characters, so that I don't keep repeating traits.
Does anyone else do this?
I have a small database in Access. But its in need of updating.
Quote from: "Vix"All of this organization is because I can't keep it sorted out in my head. Last night I finished a post and couldn't remember what the persona's signature should look like, so I created a file of sigs for all of my characters, PC and NPC.
As to the spreadsheet, I've just started it and am still entering characters.
And Mikel: at least my personas have names that can be pronounced without spraining my tongue.[/i]
*head is spinning*
O.M.G! Vix!!!
You are becoming OCD hun.
I know a trainee psychologist,
but I'm not sure if she's ready for you yet!!!
I've always been OCD, dear -- but I'm selectively OCD. My desk at work shows no sense of organization, but it does exhibit my packrat tendencies. At home . . . well, it's been held in check by having apartmentmates.
Quote from: "Kaysea"You are becoming OCD hun.
Huh! OCD is just a term coined by envious, disorganised people to devalue perfectly normal behaviour that they can't match. :laughing5:
(Except, perhaps, in the case of that fridge thing with Bree.)
Quote from: "Jane"Quote from: "Kaysea"You are becoming OCD hun.
Huh! OCD is just a term coined by envious, disorganised people to devalue perfectly normal behaviour that they can't match. :laughing5:
(Except, perhaps, in the case of that fridge thing with Bree.)
The fridge thing takes OCD to a whole new level. I think that's called TTDWTTMDCD*
*Trying To Diet While Taking Too Many Database Courses Disorder
Oh man, y'all just LEAVE MY FRIDGE alone!! :D There's nothing wrong with knowing serving sizes and having everything pre-washed and sorted... :p