How to React When You Lose that Valuable Word Document

Stephan De Winter
Sep 6, 2018 · 4 min read
As the Stoics say: ‘Remember that you’ll die.’

9591 minutes, 160 hours or 6.6 days. That is the total ‘processing time’ (a technical term for blood, sweat, tears, love, frustration, mental energy, etc.) I’ve spent writing on my forthcoming novella, according to the file properties of the word document called ‘Forever Ago’. This version, those properties say, is apparently revision number 141. That sounds a lot, but I know that it is actually…

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I turn philosophy into stories that will quite probably make you cry.

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