Question for Writers
Saturday, July 15th, 2006 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni...especially those who are living in small spaces.
Where do you keep all the paper and other records attached to the business of writing? Here at the Confusion Factory, we have four five-drawer file cabinets, plus overflow in file boxes in the basement. Granted, we're running two businesses out of the house -- SRM Publisher, and the Lee-Miller Authoring Empire -- but it comes to me that we are perhaps ...overzealous... in the matter of keeping papers.
Where do you keep all the paper and other records attached to the business of writing? Here at the Confusion Factory, we have four five-drawer file cabinets, plus overflow in file boxes in the basement. Granted, we're running two businesses out of the house -- SRM Publisher, and the Lee-Miller Authoring Empire -- but it comes to me that we are perhaps ...overzealous... in the matter of keeping papers.
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Date: 2006-07-15 11:47 pm (UTC)Similarly, one business that I knew that was very good about records put "time bombs" on them - when they stored it, they put a date to review and usually dispose of it. And they went through those old files and got rid of them when the time came. I wish there were automatic obsolesence dates for politicians, but that's another story.