I finished out with 85 words yesterday.
Tried another drawing and turned out pretty badly. No need to show it here. LOL.
I think this is more my style, maybe:
Anyway, here is an important life lesson for writers, especially younger writers regardless of whether that's in terms of age or starting out, and that is to save everything you write. Not only that, but keep it accessible.
When I started writing, I didn't have a computer. So everything was hand-written. Then, my family later got a computer. But, computer storage back in the ancient times of my youth was at a premium. So, you didn't store much on disks. On top of that, printouts were on dot matrix printers and publishers didn't like that. I eventually bought a typewriter to type up stuff to send out, rather than use a dot matrix printer because, as I said, bad. Publishers no likey. Whatever.
Anyway, computer storage eventually became larger but you still didn't store much on the computer. Digitizing documents wasn't really a thing because scanning quality wasn't real high, at least not for the average user. And the highest quality scans took up a lot of space anyway so you were back to the storage problem. Consequently, you didn't store a whole lot on the computer.
But, nowadays, it's not so bad. A "small" file these days would have filled your entire hard drive way back when. Consequently, in recent years, I have been endeavoring to get copies of everything I've written on my computer. I don't scan in all the drafts, but I scan in final copies or significant drafts. Also, notes, drawings, and so on. I keep each story in its own folder and I have a spreadsheet with all (well, most) of my WIPs.
Why do I mention this? Well, I haven't scanned in
everything.
Some of you have mentioned I should perhaps give doing comics a go, despite my lack of actual drawing skills. One possibility are the space-faring characters I've created. But, I've had another idea percolating in my brain but couldn't quite figure out the write overall story world in which to tell it.
And then I remembered this story I started a long time ago. It's even listed in my spreadsheet of WIPs. (There's also a short story I wrote several years ago that could be folded in as part of the overall story.) I had this story set in three time periods with most of the action taking place in the present day, well, what was the present day. LOL. And this idea that's been percolating would fit into the first time period, which I had, if I recall, only planned to write the ending of to show how that worked into the second time period and finally into the present day. It makes more sense than the way I just described it.
I remember coming across this story not too terribly long ago when I was sorting through stuff to organize and toss and whatnot. And I remember thinking, well, I am not going to be doing anything with this story for a while with all the other WIPs I have going, so there's no need to scan it in right now. So, I didn't.
And now that I kind of want to work with it maybe, um, I am not entirely sure where it is. I should have scanned it when I had it in my hands. Oy.
So, the lesson is to both save everything you write and also keep it accessible.
