One or many documents?

[Lord Nedd]

... I have heard that Word gets squirrely once a document starts getting too big.

Word's pretty squirrely just on general principles.

Hmm.  Has anyone had any rodentia problems with Open Office?

-LN

[Tasmin21]

As first drafts, I often have a key scene  or section in its own document.  Then, as I refine things and see how they can relate as chapters, I combine my sections into individual chapter documents.

[blgarver]

So far I've been doing the separate file for each chapter, but they go into my "writing" folder.  Inside the writing folder there are subfolders.  Subfolder categories: Short stories, poems, novels in progress, etc.  It may not be the right way to go for everyone, but I like it.   

This is exactly the way I do it.  Hurray!

[SirThinks2Much]

I break mine up into chapters (though after reading some of the comments I may reconsider to using just one document XD), but they're put in a folder reserved for that one story I'm working on.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

One chapter, one document, in early draft.  Because when I'm using multiple POVs, I frequently find myself needing to shuffle them around in later drafts.

My preferred word processor for writing is Protext, which is DOS-based, because basically nothing could induce me to have Windows on a machine I wanted to write on.  I also use emacs sometimes. This is relevant because Protext has limits in how large a file it's reliable with.