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Is the Writing on the Wall? #Memory
Most of the time, my memory works fine, I am glad to say.
But when it refuses to work, which is becoming increasingly frequent these days, it can reduce me to a zombie. As you can imagine, this is not welcome for someone who practically invented multitasking.
I am beginning to cherish every minute of my normal brain activity and pray I can keep hold of it as long as possible.
At the moment, I am waiting for my latest story to return from the final edit, so to pass the time (and save my fingernails) I have begun the re-editing of The Scarlet Ribbon, my sister’s book.
This was written over twenty years ago, and we have decided to re-release it later this year after an intensive edit. This decision was made in anticipation of the soon-to-be-finished sequel.
During this process, MS Word threw me another curve ball.
I was checking some relevant points when I noticed that some of the speech marks had changed to old-fashioned marks. I prefer the curly or smart ones. Seeing these really made me see red, as they did this a few weeks ago. Scrivener…Part One https://wordpress.com/post/jenanita01.com/104189 and Scrivener…Part Two https://wordpress.com/post/jenanita01.com/104216
While I was trying to change the speech marks, the final chapter went for a walk. I would love to know where it went, for I would probably find a lot of my work there!
This was the Final Straw
This really was the last straw, so I transferred the master copy to Google Drive.
It is very similar to MS Word, but apparently, it can handle large files better than Word and doesn’t throw spanners all over the place. Time will only tell if this is true, and I hope it is, for I am seriously fed up with the games Word plays.
So far, my ageing brain is coping very well with all these shenanigans, but one more spanner might send it reeling off into space!
I am learning (the hard way) to write down every important thought when I think of it, in detail and in full. All those cryptic notes have long ceased to be useful. I suppose I will be forced to use more Post-it notes soon.
Are any of our followers having memory issues, and how do you cope?
Not quite what I meant!
Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes 
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