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He's talked about the custom format he uses for the text files containing his stories [1]. He has a bunch of text processing tools that help him connect story

He's talked about the custom format he uses for the text files containing his stories [1]. He has a bunch of text processing tools that help him connect story lines and make notes to himself regarding them. There's also out there a version of A Fire Upon the Deep that includes at least some of his annotations. I'll update with a link when I find it again. Check out this thread [2] right here - it has a link to the annotated version on archive.org, and the discussion includes references to scripts to format it more nicely. [1] http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872593

swozey 3y ago
Thanks for these links this is fascinating. I'm going through his archived file on this Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993 which contains his annotated A Fire Upon the Deep - https://archive.org/details/hugo_nebula_1993 https://archive.org/details/hugo_nebula_1993 So far I'm only at his intro.rtf file - it's a weird mixture of .rtf and .txts I'm not sure the rhyme or reason yet. Regardless the intro.rtf first page is this which does a little dive into his process https://i.imgur.com/HuhBOAk.png https://i.imgur.com/HuhBOAk.png I wonder if he's absolutely obsessed with Obsidian now or maybe he has an absolutely interesting emacs config. edit: He just answered all of my questions on page 2.. wow. https://i.imgur.com/m2nO2Am.png https://i.imgur.com/m2nO2Am.png