This reason given by S-I-L Zak Kendall for using his old manuscripts for kindling wins the internet:
Of course, as we know, manuscripts don’t burn. Still….
A WRITING PROMPT BASED ON MY POST: Write about someone burning or attempting to burn a manuscript. Bonus points, if it takes place in hell.
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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
March 14, 2018 at 6:48pmI’m facing that very dilemma: what do I take with me that’s on paper only?
Everything else is backed up in at least to (digital) place. I could take digital copies of my many notebooks, transcribe them when I have time and if I need space on the hard drive.
There is a lot when it takes you 15 years to write a novel.
Marian Allen
March 15, 2018 at 8:20amI hear that. It took me over 15 years to finish SAGE, but for different reasons. I printed everything out, and I kept the old versions, which was good, since I eventually had to pick them apart and build the final version out of the pieces. Easier to do with physical paper, for me. Literal cut and paste. lol
Dan Antion
March 14, 2018 at 8:22amI have spent forty years writing software that produces paper and automating processes in order to eliminate paper. I don’t think I’m helping.
Marian Allen
March 14, 2018 at 9:23amYeah, remember when computers were hailed as the advent of the paperless office? To be fair, though, I do generate a lot less paper in my writing. Maybe I should continue to print out a hard copy of everything, in case the grid goes down forever. But I figure that if that happens, nobody is going to be buying books for a while, anyway. Also, I’ll have other things to worry about.