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Live Chat Today: How Can I Better Organize My Writing Materials?

By Roy Peter Clark

Except for the most organized among us, all of us have faced this experience as writers: You are in the middle of an important story, and you have found just the right place for that anecdote collected some time ago. It's on point. It reveals both character and an important issue. It is pithy. And ... you can't find it.

How many times have you said to yourself: "I know it's here somewhere. But where?" I'll save you the agony of reliving most of what happens next. Minutes, sometimes hours, wasted looking through files, excavating that pile of papers in the corner, thumbing through notebooks.

Why am I so disorganized?!

Let's talk about the importance of getting your stuff together as a writer. Before you can cook that great meal you need recipes, a rack of spices and utensils all in a row. Before you can write that great story, you need to clean your writing nest. You need to set the altar of worship to the writing gods.

Don't let yourself off the hook. Join our 12-step program. "Hello, my name is Roy. And I'm Disorganized." "Hi, Roy."

Join us on Thursday, June 3, at 3 p.m. ET for a live chat on how you can better organize your writing habits.

Twitterers can tweet questions to #poynterchats before or during the chat. You can revisit this link at any time to replay the chat after it has ended.

Full post as published by Writing Tools on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).