diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: messy
 Title: Create Messy Data from Clean Data Frames
-Version: 0.1.0
+Version: 0.1.0.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Nicola", family = "Rennie", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
     email = "nrennie35@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4797-557X")))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# messy (development version)
+
 # messy 0.1.0
 
 * CRAN release