Once
you begin a book, you begin to live in overwhelm. I'm talking about
the sheer volume of documents--whether printed pages or virtual
files--that a book generates as it grows and gets revised.
I
think longingly of the past. My short stories, essays, columns, poems
were easily gathered in file folders. Even multiple revisions or
printed pages from feedback could be compiled into easy revision lists.
I spent a year working on new stories and all 45 of them (still in
process) are in one woven shelf basket in my writing room.
A book is another animal altogether.
How
do you handle, sort, file, and save all the necessary bits and pieces
of a book, including your ideas, your research, your images, and your
drafts?
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