The Reckless Writer

Don’t Feel Guilty About Losing Manuscripts or Forgetting Story Ideas

I Learned the hard way that it is possible to recreate an article from memory

Walter Rhein
6 min readJul 19, 2021

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One of the chief fears of every writer is that s/he will lose a great idea. Maybe something occurs to you in the middle of the night and you think, “Oh, I’ll…

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