My wife is doing her annual spring cleaning. Since we moved here five years ago, my office has escaped this yearly ritual. When we moved in, I just included some boxes here in the office that I would go through later. I’ve forgotten what was in most of the boxes. I made an exciting find. I found a box of stories I had written, published articles, and even one whole manuscript of an unpublished novel. The stories I found are obviously ancient. Most are typed. Some are just handwritten on a yellow legal pad. I will share them with you as I enter each into the computer. I am not sure how many stories there are, as some of them appear to have rough drafts, partially cleaned drafts, and final drafts. I plan to enter then the computer just as they were written. I will clean up any misspellings and such things as punctuation errors, but I will not change the wording. At least one of these stories goes back as far as the late 1960s.
When we moved, I filled up a couple of gunnysack size modern feed sacks with manuscripts of novels and other things I had written. I know there must’ve been at least seven or eight novel manuscripts and a few short stories. All in all, it was enough to start a paper drive. Grin! I did not think I had kept this small trove of my writing. I’m surprised as you must be.
I look forward to sharing what I find with you.
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I think you also had some restaurant reviews that you kept from way back? Might be interesting to go over them, compare and post again. Keep on keeping on!
I thought when I moved that I had thrown away all of my old writing. I filled large modern-day feed sacks I have with all sorts of things. I didn’t remember even saving the little bit I did.