Sometimes I think of ideas for biography entries way after the fact, but if I added them in I'd have to either:
- remove several bio entries and re-enter them all after the new bio entry
- deal with the fact that it's out of chronological order
Would it be feasible to be able to re-order biography entries? Do we really need the time/date stamp for biography entries?
Any ideas for dealing with non-chronological bio entries in the meantime?
You can, however, re-edit a bio entry -- I've sometimes added the line:
"For more information, see BIO on <this date>."
I admit I'm a constant fiddler with my BIOs, expanding them, or redacting things, or re-arranging them.
I don't like adding OOC notes to biographies. I like imagining them as memories straight from my character's head.
Some of them may be vague and broadly reaching summaries, some of them may be distilled down to moments in time that show an important aspect of their development.
But... I like them to be in chronological order. Maybe that's OCD of me.
I'd also like to be able to just reorder them. Sometimes I like adding memories of events that happened long in my character's past, and it's kind of jolting to have it in there with current memories.
This has been my excuse for years...the fact if I write a piece, I then can't go back and write in all the pieces before. My answer to my excuse , is to write the past haphazardly, as memories prompted by current daily life. (needless to say, I'm not listening to my answer. )
Quote from: solera on May 02, 2016, 06:48:50 AMmemories prompted by current daily life.
You, sir/madam, are a genius. This is a great idea.