Would Google Docs work for this? It does a good job of saving automatically and often. If not, what else are you looking for.
I suspect many authors would find the process of working in public like that quite uncomfortable. When I worked in the film industry one company had a tool that made all versions of shots public. Even the mistakes that would never be used or reviewed. New people often disliked this and hated that they couldn’t delete their mistakes. It was a great system though and most ended up really liking it.
Google docs set up properly would do most of the work. I think the biggest problem is what to do with that huge pile of text files in the end that is useful or meaningful. Some kind of visualisation method would probably help get a grip on the patterns, or maybe an AI could do some of the analysis.
Software developers preserve the history of development with version control systems, these days Git. It means you can get interesting graphs showing how things progressed like this:
But you have to manage the process of committing changes and branching manually and it's tedious. Software developers only do it because being able to roll back to previous versions and find recent changes which have caused a bug is so important.
It's easy to imagine a branching tree like structure for a novel as a plot develops, but I think that would require either a lot of manual work by the author or customised writing software?
Without those, you're left with something like Google Docs which is just a time series of edits. I'm not sure what interesting data you could get from that.
- Number of edits/words per day/week?
- Maybe could detect hotspots (how many times a given paragraph has been edited)?
Pretty watercolors of the fruit, color matching the flower petals, learning how to make your own colors, learning how those colors are. Lots of interesting ways to play with and learn about!
I adore pressed flowers in home made paper. Young Authors taught us how I think in elementary school. Or maybe it was one of the science events that I went to around the same time. I remember one for science about how to make an alginate mold of our hands. I think I did the peace sign, I had trouble with the thumb.
Would Google Docs work for this? It does a good job of saving automatically and often. If not, what else are you looking for.
I suspect many authors would find the process of working in public like that quite uncomfortable. When I worked in the film industry one company had a tool that made all versions of shots public. Even the mistakes that would never be used or reviewed. New people often disliked this and hated that they couldn’t delete their mistakes. It was a great system though and most ended up really liking it.
Google docs set up properly would do most of the work. I think the biggest problem is what to do with that huge pile of text files in the end that is useful or meaningful. Some kind of visualisation method would probably help get a grip on the patterns, or maybe an AI could do some of the analysis.
Yeah, I agree.
Software developers preserve the history of development with version control systems, these days Git. It means you can get interesting graphs showing how things progressed like this:
https://blog.cpanel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image2018-2-8_17-46-1.png
But you have to manage the process of committing changes and branching manually and it's tedious. Software developers only do it because being able to roll back to previous versions and find recent changes which have caused a bug is so important.
It's easy to imagine a branching tree like structure for a novel as a plot develops, but I think that would require either a lot of manual work by the author or customised writing software?
Without those, you're left with something like Google Docs which is just a time series of edits. I'm not sure what interesting data you could get from that.
- Number of edits/words per day/week?
- Maybe could detect hotspots (how many times a given paragraph has been edited)?
Are you related to a Susan?
Nope- neither the lazy nor a black-eyed variety.
Pretty watercolors of the fruit, color matching the flower petals, learning how to make your own colors, learning how those colors are. Lots of interesting ways to play with and learn about!
Pressed seeds with pressed flowers and leaves would be really cool to press into paper, with calligraphy notes about the plant. Pretty as a picture!
I adore pressed flowers in home made paper. Young Authors taught us how I think in elementary school. Or maybe it was one of the science events that I went to around the same time. I remember one for science about how to make an alginate mold of our hands. I think I did the peace sign, I had trouble with the thumb.