Later today (closer to night, really), I'll be taking time to archive my life, which I've been doing since late last month.
For the first time in a decade, my living situation is up in the air, and wherever I go, I will have to downsize.
For me, this meant taking inventory of things I haven't looked at in nearly two decades. Two and a half in some cases.
I'm not a hoarder. You can make jokes about it, and people have, but I don't collect cat sculls and old cereal boxes. I collect stories. I collected them for years until a series of disasters and tragedies derailed me for doing any kind of writing based on research.
I gave up on articles, but thankfully I never gave up on the stories I collected. Back in the days before everything was on the internet, I had to pay a lot out of pocket to gather the stories I have now.
This wasn't a hoarder's habit. This was work. I had plans. I might even be able to see some of those plans through, if only to a certain extent. And I can already see new plans in today's world.
So I am scanning and scanning, working so my work and effort survives electronically.
I've even been scanning things from my own life as a writer. Given all the time I spend day to day appeasing other people, it's been very invigorating going over my own life and unearthing things I had forgotten about. I hope to be sharing some of these things with you soon.
For the first time in a decade, my living situation is up in the air, and wherever I go, I will have to downsize.
For me, this meant taking inventory of things I haven't looked at in nearly two decades. Two and a half in some cases.
I'm not a hoarder. You can make jokes about it, and people have, but I don't collect cat sculls and old cereal boxes. I collect stories. I collected them for years until a series of disasters and tragedies derailed me for doing any kind of writing based on research.
I gave up on articles, but thankfully I never gave up on the stories I collected. Back in the days before everything was on the internet, I had to pay a lot out of pocket to gather the stories I have now.
This wasn't a hoarder's habit. This was work. I had plans. I might even be able to see some of those plans through, if only to a certain extent. And I can already see new plans in today's world.
So I am scanning and scanning, working so my work and effort survives electronically.
I've even been scanning things from my own life as a writer. Given all the time I spend day to day appeasing other people, it's been very invigorating going over my own life and unearthing things I had forgotten about. I hope to be sharing some of these things with you soon.
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