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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Why We Archive

I don't know about you, but I archive every day's version of writing. Each book/project has a daily zip file named by date so that I can always revert to a previous version. Oh, you're thinking you'd like an example? OK, like if you were to discover that the massive changes you made in your MS, after a week's worth of work in which the words "shredded to pieces" would not be inappropriate, are a complete and utter failure and the chapters are beyond saving. Like that. If something like that were to happen to you, you'd be grateful for those zip files because you could put your MS back the way it was and proceed to Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Fortunately, Plan 9 jumped out at me this afternoon at the gym (I had the binder with me) while I was despairing and considering whether I should just give up on the freaking book. So now that I'm back from my son's Open House, I'm going to revert the chapters and start over and keep going until the chapters are more better.

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