Your consistent output over the years is impressive and humbling! Perhaps even more so is the ability not to lose your work as you change computers and laptops over time. I don’t know how many essays, short stories, and plays I’ve lost going from disk and zip drive backups to more modern devices, in moving boxes that went missing to and from Vietnam, and flash drives that devastatingly disappeared from a university office desk once...
I know the feeling well: I once lost an entire novel that wasn't backed up when my computer got a virus (always backed up after that, also never used Windows again). Before the cloud was a thing, I used to email my drafts to myself figuring GMail would probably last longer than my flash drives.
Thank you for sharing. I work like you and I’ve been told the same thing that I’ll never finish anything. In my case I actually am having a hard time finishing things! That’s in terms of Book manuscripts. I think I finish a lot of short pieces. I really agree with you in terms of the life of the mind and creativity it’s actually really helpful to always have a bunch of balls in the air.
Your consistent output over the years is impressive and humbling! Perhaps even more so is the ability not to lose your work as you change computers and laptops over time. I don’t know how many essays, short stories, and plays I’ve lost going from disk and zip drive backups to more modern devices, in moving boxes that went missing to and from Vietnam, and flash drives that devastatingly disappeared from a university office desk once...
I know the feeling well: I once lost an entire novel that wasn't backed up when my computer got a virus (always backed up after that, also never used Windows again). Before the cloud was a thing, I used to email my drafts to myself figuring GMail would probably last longer than my flash drives.
Thank you for sharing. I work like you and I’ve been told the same thing that I’ll never finish anything. In my case I actually am having a hard time finishing things! That’s in terms of Book manuscripts. I think I finish a lot of short pieces. I really agree with you in terms of the life of the mind and creativity it’s actually really helpful to always have a bunch of balls in the air.