Thinking Out Loud Again

I've been giving this CC issue a lot of thought. Currently I have 101 folders in my Downloads and some of those have sub-folders. I wanted some way to organize what I had but sadly things got confusing. I tried to categorize things by category for Build or Buy. But that is a double edged sword. For example, you download a picture or a sculpture only to find that it was cloned from a plant. Same with rugs. Or they end up in Miscellaneous (which should be banned IMHO).

And I have some sub-folders for creators/sites. And sets. Which is good if you ever lose a mesh and need to remember where it came from. However you get the creator who recolors and tacks their name and the original creator's name on the file. Where would that go? I could go on...

So I made a new list of categories per the way the game sorts. I will still have a ton of folders and the same issue of pictures being plants, etc. It occurred to me that I could simply do the following:

• BUILD (everything Build mode)
• BUY (everything Buy mode)
• BODY SHOP (clothing, Hair, skintones, accessories, brows, eyes, facial hair, make-up)
• DEFAULTS
• HACKS (because they need to be in their own folder)
• NB DECOR

That way even if I do a sub-folder by creator/site it won't be such an overwhelming file structure. Although looking at the Body Shop category separating those would be tricky. Some accessories are make-up for example. And some hair and clothing meshes are hard to tell if they are male or female.

I'd love some feedback on this. Bear in mind I currently have over 55,000 files and I am still not done re-installing things for the lots I need to replace. o_0

Some random shots under the cut...

Query-osity: to Blog or not to Blog

I was recently looking for a link to a post when I realized I had no idea where to find it. This is the result of having multiple story threads on multiple blogs. While it isn’t possible to change what is already up there, and even if it was, I am not in favor of wasting the time doing it, I wonder...

Going forward do you, as a reader, think it is easier to have all story arcs located on one blog? I ask this because we still have multiple blogs going. Rising Above will be ending in what I think will be one more post. I do not plan on continuing Wyatt’s story at this point. If he makes an appearance at all it will be as a secondary character to any threads we have going in the future. And I know, never say never, but it is too hard to maintain multiple threads in multiple blogs as they relate to a main story line, at least it is too overwhelming for me right now. I experienced first hand the frustration of multiple blogs when I tried to find a specific chapter.

Then we have Chameleon, the simfic50 story line about Melinda Owen. Her thread has found its way into the main story. I haven’t updated there for ages. I plan to finish her story with the prompt table which means I need to get off my butt and start writing it. With Ryan off the main story map, I should be able to keep hers separate going forward.

Let’s talk about Intermezzo, a side blog that I doubt anyone pays attention to and really only a place I wanted to use because things were happening with characters who never appear in the main story and damn it I wanted to write about them. They talk to me and it is hard to ignore. But they have no place in the main story, not really.

Again I ask this because there are more stories that can be told - Charlie and Syd and Rob, Blade and his wives, Shooter, Duff, and lord knows how many more characters that are going to come out of the woodwork in our heads. Can their stories be told on the same blog? Can they stay at Studio Time?

I think multiple blogs are great if you have multiple stories that do not overlap and intersect. I have to commend Beth for making sense out of all of it, untangling the mass of tangles that is our writing to put something up that is somewhat continuous and linear in the series guide. Going forward - telling this story from here on out - what does that look like?