Maybe Nothing For Posterity

There was an article in the NY Times about how archivists are trying to figure out how to preserve the electronic files of writers such as John Updike and Salman Rushdie. This raised some discussion on one of my writers loops and one of the topics that came up was how writers can't stop fiddling with stories. You see, no story is ever done, it's simply published--to paraphrase some famous writer whose name I can't recall.

I can tell you what it's like for me. This idea comes in--it's new, i...