My network seems to be back to it’s normal self this morning. I’d yell it to the world, but if it’s a mistake, I’d like to keep it quiet.

My mom visited this weekend, meaning I got nothing done. I tried to get caught up last night but could only manage to send so many emails (and really, I don’t think they sent until this morning).

While I’d like to spend today writing, I think most of it’s going to be spent organizing all of my Programming stuff for next year.

Have I mentioned that organization isn’t my strong suit?

Speaking of that. May I ask you fellow writers, how do you keep organizied. And part of what I mean by that is, How do you make sure that you don’t have 10 characters named Sally? How do you remember if you’ve already written that scene where they have a fight in the car?

I’ve got a lot of manuscripts under my belt now and they’re all starting to blur together in my mind. Combine that with the partially written books and scenes that got cut and scenes that were supposed to be, but never got in there, and my mind is a jumbled mess of what I did and didn’t do?

How do y’all help that?

As for reading…can you tell by reading a back cover blurb whether or not you’ve already read the book? Do you keep spreadsheets of books your read?

I’ve been known to read half to 3/4 of a book before realizing that I’ve already read it. (Speaking of reading, I got/read Suzanne’sThird Sight this weekend. Will blog about it tomorrow).

So tell me. How do you organize?

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