My overviews usually are within my plot bunnies. If the bunny die before I get a time line sequence/outline, the muse died with it. When I wrote
Jane and Elizabeth’s Paranormal Journey, I wrote it over my outline, and thus made only minor alterations. I confess that its Act 5 is better than I drafted and is the treat of the story {Teaze, teaze...}. However, the "Postscript" was a complete surprise! The muley muse kicked my ar55se, forcing me to incorporate it into the posting sequence.
I find plot bunnies save a lot of time and disk space. Diskspace is still a factor when still using FAT16 partitions for workspace, because my application software is DOS - based, although my backup media is HPFS or JFS.
To preserve my honor of not letting initials go unexplained:
HPFS :== High Performance File System has a low level format like msft's NTFS, but unlike NTFS, the directory allow for TRUE long file names. My OS/2 sets will attach an NTFS windows drive, but not show their long file names. However, windows will not attach an HPFS drive if any directory has a filespec beyond 8.3, and they usually do.
JFS :== Journaling File System is an OS/2 specialty, working like mini-computer and main frame systems, since microcomputers got the support capability. Put one of these drives in an msft windows computer, and windows arbitrarily and capriciously try to re-partition it, where it will ask the operator for installation of a new drive.
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