Randoms by Rach

Organised? Get Outta Here!

Day Twelve ~ I just spent the bulk of the evening reorganizing my WDC portfolio a little bit. I do it maybe once or twice a year. How often do you organize yours? How do you have yours set up? Are your folders arranged in any specific order? Guide us on a virtual walking tour of your port.

Here's the thing: to the untrained eye, I am the most disorganised person in the world. But that's not it. I may look disorganised, but I know where everything is. I live in my own ordered chaos. (My hubby would not agree with this statement.) Seriously, though. I just feel like there are so many things more interesting to do than to organise things. That said, I do need to have them arranged in a way that I know where everything is. I panic if I'm not in control. How do the two parts of me fit together? Actually, fairly well.

But, onto my portfolio. For me, this is incredibly well organised and straight forward. I actually spent some time in December doing this because I knew I was going to be a Newbies Academy Showcase Member in January. So I spent some time with my port. I have highlighted three items I think help others understand me. There is a static item which lists everything I wrote in 2016: "A Little Of Me In 2016 . . ." . I created this a few months ago, when a lot of people seemed to be doing it, and hinting that people looking to nominate items for the Quills could take a look. My other highlighted items are "PTSD & Me"  and my poetry folder, "Poetry" . My piece about PTSD felt like a breakthrough for me, as the response I received was overwhelming. I felt so supported, and validated. So I like people to read this. I think it helps them to understand me, as well. I highlighted my poetry folder because it won a Quill Award last year, and I was so proud of that.

The rest of my port may look a little haphazard, but it's not. It all makes sense. My first item is a static I created as part of my NAG Showcase feature. It lists my most recent items, and items I'm most proud of. It's a mini guide to my port (so if you're looking to figure it out, this is a good place to start).

I also have a folder that holds the items I would most like reviews for. It's mainly my newest items. After this, I separate my folders into "Short Stories," "Poetry," "Rising Stars," "Non Fiction," "Flash Fiction," "Book Items," "Images," "PDG," "NAG," "New Horizons," and "Verdant Poetry Contest." Then, there are my items that don't fall into any of these categories, so I just dumped them in my portfolio on their own. There is: "Writing of Lady Purple" (which is my book of Game of Thrones writing, and I'm very proud of this), "Randoms by Rach" (this blog), "Rach's Welcome Lounge," "Rach's Characters" (something I was working on with another member), and "Say . . . Which Genre?." The last static is part of my quest to review an item in as many different genres as possible this year. I record my reviews here.

Inside my poetry and short stories folders, I've tried to create an order to the items. The others, not so much. So it is a little haphazard, but in a non-hap way. It makes sense, no?