Manuscript Management
Versioning, backups, and the files that survive a five-year project.
Chapter i·What this topic covers
Manuscript management is the unglamorous discipline of always knowing which file is current, where the last three versions live, and how to recover the right scene from six months ago. The cost of getting this wrong is measured in lost weeks; the cost of getting it right is one decision per week about naming and backup. Cloud sync alone is not version control.
What you’ll find here
- File naming conventions that scale across multiple revisions and editors.
- Version control patterns: dated snapshots, branched alternates, "frozen" handoff copies.
- Backup strategy: local plus cloud plus quarterly cold copy.
- Round-trip editing with Word, Pages, Google Docs, Scrivener, and Markdown.
Who this is for
Writers mid-novel, writers working with editors, and writers juggling more than one manuscript.
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