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Organize the Outhouse of my Mind


In a fuddle this morning.



Finished the first draft of next novel, working title Eco Terrorist. I might call her Soothsayer, but that leads to another story. I am giving the book a rest for a week and working on other short fiction that needs polishing. Organizing and planning back at home today. The wind rocked the house something wild last night. My two sweet gum trees in the front in full painted blaze have thrown their souls all over the canyon.  One mess of crimson, rust and magenta is in the bottom of my pool and the gutters towards the ocean.



After travelling this week I want to thank again all the wonderful people who were supportive and amazing open, giving, and participated in the performances. Poetry is alive and well. I met college students, teens, bikers, cowboys, and truck drivers who are now part of my family.

Returning to my messy mind I ask for a solution. Does anyone else have this rather stupid problem? I save a file in Word and give it a title and now I often add a numerical date, but other copies of the same file duplicate as a) Backup of xyz title  and b)xyz title with similar date and c) I might have a word doc a worddocx an HTML and some other copies of the same file. I attempted to merge these pieces but it is frustrating to the point of crazy making.

There must be a better system to organize my writing.



I want to store all the poetry and flash pieces in some easy to recall order.

There are about two hundred short stories and flash fiction pieces unpublished that I need to edit down and keep clean copies.

I also have hundreds of film clips and thousands of photographs.

I think I need a personal secretary who can live inside my computer and just talk to me when I sleep.



Time for bleach, lists, throwing away a bunch of junk and general cleanup.



The photograph is a working outhouse, not mine, but surely feels like my mind today. I

spared you the word crap in the title.



O. K. going for a hike for a break