the ole days

When I was a kid and up until I was in my twenties, my story ideas were hand-written.

I would get out a pencil or pen and flip open a notebook and scribble the idea down. We had an old Remington typewriter but I rarely used it unless I could scrounge up some paper for it. Everything was scribbled down in fifty cent notebooks or scraps of paper I found when the idea hit me.

In my twenties, I bought a typewriter. But I still had the tendency to scribble.

I had a 40 gallon tote full of paper with my story ideas up until five years ago.

I got a computer in my thirties but didn't really transfer my stories on to computer until I got my latest computer.  I added some stories here and there but didn't get serious until five years ago.  I had transferred about half the tote by then and threw away my kid/teenager story scribbles--Most of which were stupid kid stuff.

That computer went belly up. The mother board fried, but luckily I had taken it in an had decided to get a new computer so everything was transferred to the 'new' computer before the mother board blew.

So here we are.

I'm down to just a milk crate of story ideas still to go.  The tote is used for other things now..

I put the new ideas in a journal(still hand-written).  I can't seem to break that habit.

And to tell the truth, I really don't want to.