I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull-dozer

[lannamichaels]

I am emotionally exhausted and have been since about 9am (a panic attack at 8am will do that to you), but I am focusing on the bright side for this week is that I think I have finally cracked the thing that's been following me around for a while: Methos meets Joe in Chicago when Joe is running a bar and isn't being a Watcher. Mind you, this isn't

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[troutkitty]

I try to be careful with my naming schemes so that I know the version and the story, but sometimes I just look at what my past self has done and just shake my head. I was working on book three of an original fiction, spent all October on one file, completely rewriting the second half, never emailed it to myself or devo once despite that being SOP and then I lost it. I'm still kicking myself. My mac goes through hiccoughs where it just flat out refuses to remember any file that had been saved in the past two weeks and if I didn't email it to myself it's completely gone. It's so frustrating.

[lannamichaels]

Switching to Scrivener has been a godsend for me. My versioning convention is still "tack on another number every so often", but now things are organized better. I could stand to organize in-progress stuff more than I am, but it's great to have a place for Previous Versions and Finished Things and Things That Are Never Going Anywhere. And it autosaves every two seconds and backs up to .zip on close.