To be honest, it's rather arbitrary in a lot of ways. It's all according to whim, what I feel like writing about that day (which means that there's a whole lot of short entries *laugh*). The way I have it set up is that any time something or someone gets mentioned in an entry that deserves an entry of its own, I highlight it in red (for example, Mulligatawny is defined as the apartment shared by Lauren [my ex] and me from '92 to '93; both Lauren's and my names are in red). Then I add the red items as their own boldface entries if I haven't already done so—no content, just the entry name. When I get an itch to write some more on the project, instead of adding something out of the blue I'll often pick one of the undefined entries and get that out of the way, so I stay more or less caught up. But it all comes down to whim, and what stories would be fun to tell.
It started out, actually, as being only a glossary of slang. A coworker of mine is writing a novel, and she occasionally asks me to brainstorm, say, names for a sardonic college student's cat, or the like. One day, she asked me for a nickname given to a psycho ex-girlfriend, and I suggested carnivorous plant, which she loved. That inspired me to write up about a dozen terms from that period for her enjoyment, which grew further when I realized that some of the definitions required background information (e.g. if I define whatnots as a menu item at the Etc., I now have to explain what The Etc. is). From there, it blew way beyond my control. Take that as a warning. *grin*
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Date: 2005-01-27 06:04 pm (UTC)It started out, actually, as being only a glossary of slang. A coworker of mine is writing a novel, and she occasionally asks me to brainstorm, say, names for a sardonic college student's cat, or the like. One day, she asked me for a nickname given to a psycho ex-girlfriend, and I suggested carnivorous plant, which she loved. That inspired me to write up about a dozen terms from that period for her enjoyment, which grew further when I realized that some of the definitions required background information (e.g. if I define whatnots as a menu item at the Etc., I now have to explain what The Etc. is). From there, it blew way beyond my control. Take that as a warning. *grin*