Do you remember the creation?

[TarnishedPenny]

I took a stroll through some of my older stories. Without consideration if literary merit, there are a couple I have absolutely no memory writing. It’s a bit eerie. Am I the only one?

 

[TxRad]

With as many stories as I have posted, it's a wonder I remember half of them.

 

[NotWise]

If you don't have drafts of those stories, then maybe you didn't write them. There was a case a while back were stories where published under the wrong authorship.

 

[SimonDoom]

Interesting. I cannot say that's the case for me. I just published my 51st story in 5 1/2 years, and I can remember writing every single one. A few of them are much more memorable than others, of course. It surprises me to read that you feel that way, because you strike me as someone who takes care with her words.

 

[KeithD]

I have trouble I've written some of the stories of mine I look at again, yes.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It's funny. Yes, I have drafts and, yes, I am 100% certain I wrote them. The writing style is mine and the characterizations/settings are in my head. I can picture the people and the villa the stories are set in, but the memory of key-bashing to produce them is AWOL.

I wish I could chalk it up to early-onset senility, but it wouldn't be early.

 

[lovecraft68]

Every once in a while I'll scroll through my for sale e-books, or my story list here, see a title and realize other than the very basic set up I couldn't recall anything about it.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I took a stroll through some of my older stories. Without consideration if literary merit, there are a couple I have absolutely no memory writing. It’s a bit eerie. Am I the only one?

I was about to say, "No, but you've been here longer than I have," and was shocked to realize that you haven't.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I was about to say, "No, but you've been here longer than I have," and was shocked to realize that you haven't.

Ah, MB, but you are timeless!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oh,I remember writing them, but sometimes when I read them, I look at them and think "wow, did I really write that..."

 

[ElectricBlue]

Oh,I remember writing them, but sometimes when I read them, I look at them and think "wow, did I really write that..."

Yes, this is me, too. I can remember each story I've written, but often not the detail. When I reread some of the very early pieces, I'm surprised to see how early my tropes appeared - I think I settled into my style pretty early on.

 

[neuroparenthetical]

The physical act of typing edges very close to being procedural memory. It's far more disturbing that people forget driving to work in the morning, considering that they were piloting multi-ton steel death machines. That's yet another example of how "the pen is mightier" doesn't hold down at the micro level.

Heh, micro pen is.

I've only been writing smut for a few months, and the specific circumstances surrounding each story are gone. That's because most of my days are gone for basically the same reason that the physical act of typing is gone: they're boring and samey. The brain learns fairly quickly what stuff can get dumped. Granted, there are a lot more questionable dumps than questionable retentions, but still... I can give you a reasonable guarantee that nothing so important happened in my life these past few months that I should specifically remember it.

 

[lovecraft68]

The physical act of typing edges very close to being procedural memory. It's far more disturbing that people forget driving to work in the morning, considering that they were piloting multi-ton steel death machines. That's yet another example of how "the pen is mightier" doesn't hold down at the micro level.

Heh, micro pen is.

I've only been writing smut for a few months, and the specific circumstances surrounding each story are gone. That's because most of my days are gone for basically the same reason that the physical act of typing is gone: they're boring and samey. The brain learns fairly quickly what stuff can get dumped. Granted, there are a lot more questionable dumps than questionable retentions, but still... I can give you a reasonable guarantee that nothing so important happened in my life these past few months that I should specifically remember it.

The hey how did I get here work ride is scary. I go in for 5am these days so I'm on the road at 4:30am and I am on serious auto pilot. I imagine its some type of somnambulistic sub conscience thing that takes over. To think to get there, there's red lights merges, exits to take and to not completely remember all of it....yikes.

 

[Voboy]

All the damn time.

I'll get a notice that someone has favorited some story, and I'll be like, "What story is that? Who wrote it? That's a pretty cool-sounding title." Then I'll ponder a moment and realize I'm being told about it because it's my story and my cool-sounding title.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, everything I write lives in my head. I sometimes have to push them way back in a corner so they don't get in the way of what I'm trying to write. Do I remember every word, of course not. I remember them as a movie I saw or created in my mind. So, I've just reached the 200+ mark of submitted stories and I have about 100+ sitting in my In Process folder. So that's 300+ stories running around in my head. Luckily, storage space in the human brain is almost infinite. At least until aluminum is introduced in there somehow.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have that issue with going somewhere outside of my normal routine that usually ends with me ending up at work instead of my intended destination. "Shit! I was going to the grocery store, not work."

Did that the other day, heading up 95 to go to CT, and take the exit that leads to work. I blame the car just like I'd blame my dog when I'd end up going for a longer walk then I planned.

 

[HectorBidon]

I wrote for the school paper in college (a few decades ago, admittedly), and recently an acquaintance came across an article I'd written in an online archive. Big story, front page headline, competently written, quotes from high-ranking school officials, my name in the byline for all the world to see. And I had absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever.