Comments on: What Would You Bury? http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55934 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:24:05 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55934 NS, YES, that's it! I need to bone up on my short story novelists. And for the record, I agree with you. If Nabokov wanted the work destroyed, it should be. NS, YES, that’s it! I need to bone up on my short story novelists. And for the record, I agree with you. If Nabokov wanted the work destroyed, it should be.

]]> by: NS Foster http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55929 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:38:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55929 Was this the current controversy you were referring to? <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2181859/fr/rss/" rel="nofollow">Vladimir Nabokov's last unfinished manuscript</a> To be honest, depriving the world of a treasure or not, this is a matter of respecting the dead. We all have pieces of ourselves we'd rather not see the light of day. We should have control over that if we've provided instructions while we're living or dead. Was this the current controversy you were referring to?

Vladimir Nabokov’s last unfinished manuscript

To be honest, depriving the world of a treasure or not, this is a matter of respecting the dead. We all have pieces of ourselves we’d rather not see the light of day. We should have control over that if we’ve provided instructions while we’re living or dead.

]]> by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55912 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:14:45 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55912 I was disturbed on Mitchell's behalf, too, Cath. I didn't know that about Austen, Thea. Yeesh. I'm glad I'm not the only one who'd want to bury an embarassing writerly past. :) I was disturbed on Mitchell’s behalf, too, Cath.

I didn’t know that about Austen, Thea. Yeesh.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’d want to bury an embarassing writerly past. :)

]]> by: Cath http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55871 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:34:55 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55871 Can we count stuff we've already had published? Because I've got a few things floating around right now that make me squirm a little when they pop up :-) But I'm just gonna put this out there...whatever happened to respecting the dead? It really burns me when I hear of relatives publishing material belonging to some poor, deceased author. I mean, if a writer gets mowed down by a truck on the way to the post office with manuscript in hand, then I guess I'd be okay with publishing that. But anything else and you've crossed the line of decent, respectable behavior. (Um, that was a bit of rant. Must have been the Margaret Mitchell thing that set this Southern gal off.) Can we count stuff we’ve already had published? Because I’ve got a few things floating around right now that make me squirm a little when they pop up :-)

But I’m just gonna put this out there…whatever happened to respecting the dead? It really burns me when I hear of relatives publishing material belonging to some poor, deceased author. I mean, if a writer gets mowed down by a truck on the way to the post office with manuscript in hand, then I guess I’d be okay with publishing that. But anything else and you’ve crossed the line of decent, respectable behavior.

(Um, that was a bit of rant. Must have been the Margaret Mitchell thing that set this Southern gal off.)

]]> by: theamcginnis http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55868 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:23:09 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55868 jane austen's sister burned jane's papers, letters etc so we've lost a treasure trove of info because of that. so don't destroy anything!! jane austen’s sister burned jane’s papers, letters etc so we’ve lost a treasure trove of info because of that. so don’t destroy anything!!

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55856 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:12:13 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55856 Oh god. What *wouldn't* I trash? Stinkeroos don't even begin to cover how bad those early efforts are. But like Therese, I can't seem to throw them out. I did manage to throw away a box of floppy disks with dreck I can't access anymore. A teensy step in the right direction. Oh god. What *wouldn’t* I trash? Stinkeroos don’t even begin to cover how bad those early efforts are. But like Therese, I can’t seem to throw them out.

I did manage to throw away a box of floppy disks with dreck I can’t access anymore. A teensy step in the right direction.

]]> by: Miranda http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55852 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:51:11 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/01/28/what-would-you-bury/#comment-55852 The first "novel" I wrote, started at the ripe age of 14, would be the first to go in the furnace. I thought I was terribly brilliant at the time, but after reading snippets I would be crushed if anyone were to ever read it. The first “novel” I wrote, started at the ripe age of 14, would be the first to go in the furnace. I thought I was terribly brilliant at the time, but after reading snippets I would be crushed if anyone were to ever read it.

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