Author: Donald O'Donovan
Date:   11-06-09 13:29

I’m concerned to preserve my body of work before I die so that it will exist somewhere other than on my hard drive or in a desk drawer. It strikes me that the Internet is the place. My question is, if you were in my shoes (and if you’re reading this you probably are) what Internet site or sites would you pick to “park” your work? Smashwords? Createspace? Or would your answer be, possibly, as many free sites as you can find? I say free, because remember, I won’t be around to pay the rent.

My literary cryogenic fantasy goes like this: the technicians freeze dry my work, it sits in a locker for two, maybe three centuries, and then they thaw me out and it’s 1900 once again—no TV, no radio, James Joyce is coming up on the horizon, and Thomas Wolfe, and Celine—and publishing is just wide open and anything goes. What a beautiful world!

So where would you park yours? Remember, we’re not concerned with sales. I’m not going to be doing any promoting or marketing. I’m a writer, not a salesman. Besides, you don’t need no money where I’m going.

Thanks for your suggestions!

PS: I recently read, on the Internet, a transcription of a 13th Dynasty Egyptian grain supervisor’s report written in Akkadian cuneiform on a clay tablet in 1773 BC. To me this means that one’s work can survive and come to light after a very long period of—br-r-r-r-r—hibernation.

Author: Amanda Brenner
Date:   11-06-09 17:21

I sent a story to an e-zine I found on the Duotrope website. There was no money involved, I just wanted to see if they would publish it. They did, and it went into their archives. Later, I searched the title, and up it came on the e-zine site. This is something you might try if you wanted your work to be accessible forever.

"Besides, you don’t need no money where I’m going." Are you trying to tell us something here? Lord, I hope not.

AB

Author: Donald O'Donovan
Date:   11-06-09 17:49

Thanks for your concern, Amanda, but I meant "going" whenever it happens, not that I had made a definite date with...um...the Grim Reaper.

And I really think you have a good idea there. Just submit one's work anywhere, as long as it's on the Internet. There must be dozens, hundreds of e-zines. Thanks for commenting.

Donaldo

Author: Laura Mollett
Date:   11-06-09 23:48

I have an unpublished blogger site for each of my works in progress. I can work on them on any computer, which is handy as I wander around occasionally and they're there, although it might take the equivalent of the rosetta stone to unencrypt. Avoids any idea that I might have prior published that way.

Author: Donald O'Donovan
Date:   11-07-09 18:11

Good idea, Laura. Thanks for responding.

Author: Gary Kessler
Date:   11-07-09 20:00

Chances are good it will do you no good to park your "live forever" material on the Internet. Each and every advance in digital media storage has been obsoleted and lost its ability to be retrieved and read within decades of coming on the scene and touted as "THE be there forever" storage system. (Remember microfilm, microfishe, IBM punch cards, 8 trade tapes?)

Your best bet is to make your works classics, and then they will be upgraded into the storage system of the day each time that changes.

Author: sam albion
Date:   11-08-09 11:15

or, get an isbn, and submit a copy to the British Library (or the American equivalent, etc)

et voila!

Author: Donald O'Donovan
Date:   11-08-09 13:10

Thanks sam and Gary! I tried the ISBN bit when I self published a few years back and found myself in a real, honest-to-goodness deep freeze with no possibility of parole. So I think I'll try posting anywhere and everywhere on the Internet--the best of a bad lot--and then when the Big Thaw comes--if it comes--one of the New People may find me--if I have somhow survived the obsoleting of storage systems and the collapse of the Internet and the collapse of Western Civilization--if, if, if--then he, she or it, having stumbled upon me will, out of curiousity, maybe, perhaps, I hope, defrost me and, as you say, sam, VOILA!

Author: Frank Baron
Date:   11-09-09 13:38

Got to Blogspot and create your own blog. It's free and you can post as much material as you like.

Author: Sandra Monick
Date:   11-12-09 05:15

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Author: Noymie Wades
Date:   11-12-09 09:42

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