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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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.
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