{"id":1037,"date":"2012-01-30T01:15:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:32:18","slug":"entering-and-using-unstructured-fiction-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/01\/entering-and-using-unstructured-fiction-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering and Using Unstructured Fiction Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I look at a couple of methods of storing information to be used in fiction writing: mediawiki software and good old HTML.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing a large piece of fiction, like a novel, can be messy. How do you keep track of characters, places, dates, and all that stuff?<\/p>\n<p>The answer for many writers is that you don&#8217;t keep track of all that stuff. That stuff isn&#8217;t important. That is all about organization and novel writers don&#8217;t need to be stifled by organization.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I need to be organized. It is part of my temperament.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite way to keep all this unstructured information is in a wiki using <a href=\"http:\/\/mediawiki.org\">mediawiki software<\/a>. The information is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>easy to enter<\/li>\n<li>easy to search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, and there must be a but, mediawiki software is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hard to install<\/li>\n<li>hard to move the information from machine to machine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To install, I must first install that <a href=\"http:\/\/mamp.info\">MAMP<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/wampserver.com\">WAMP<\/a> software to have a server or something like a server running on my computer. I don&#8217;t like that. And then there is moving the information from machine to machine. I still can&#8217;t find the ASCII information on the disk drive. I am told that the information is in a SQL database somewhere. Where? Someone find it for me, please!<\/p>\n<p>Another method to enter unstructured data and link it all together is through good old HTML (no links for that because, well because). HTML is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>easy to enter<\/li>\n<li>easy to install (you don&#8217;t install it)<\/li>\n<li>easy to move the files from machine to machine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, yes, there is a but here as well, HTML is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hard to search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I can use Windows and OS X tools to search files, but that is messy.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I can run mediawiki and keep the information on DropBox or some cloud service like that? If anyone knows how to do that, I would appreciate the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I look at a couple of methods of storing information to be used in fiction writing: mediawiki software and good old HTML. Writing a large piece of fiction, like a novel, can be messy. How do you keep track of characters, places, dates, and all that stuff? The answer for many writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[126,128],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-writing","tag-technology","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}