How to keep track of your writing project so you don’t edit the wrong version
This is the formula I use to avoid wailing and gnashing of teeth
On a zoom call with me this morning, a writer had trouble finding a document.
(Blimey. I sure know how to write a strong opening line.)
I watched her eyes disengage from me on Zoom, to scan instead through files on her computer. This went on for a few moments, perhaps even minutes. She was able to find earlier versions, she said, but the latest one eluded her.
The document in question was a book proposal.
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