Lost in a Book UK
June 2026
Dear Abyss,
Is a project ever really finished, or do we at some stage just need to call it a day? I’ve just looked in my draft bin file, and there are many versions of my work in progress, why? Because when editing a book, it is a good idea to save the different versions as you go along, rather than just saving and overriding the old version, that way if it all goes to pot, there is always the previous version to fall back on. Of course these files soon mount up, so filing them into a draft bin puts them out of sight and out of mind, safely waiting for if they are needed.
So that is my hot tip for today:
Save old versions of work, and file them into a draft bin in case they are needed to save the day in case of major disaster.
What major disaster could possibly happen during formatting you might wonder? Well for one thing, a new format can send illustrations scrambling to hide behind each other. Can they be found? Yes, probably… but sometimes it can be easier to just go back to the last time everything worked, illustrations can be very good at hiding.
