the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@deborahh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>deborahh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@orionkidder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>orionkidder</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@johncormier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>johncormier</span></a></span> </p><p>Absolutely so! </p><p>In my first academic job, decades ago, we used the fragile Windows 3.1 on our machines. It crashed all the time, and if you hadn't done a recent Save, a morning's writing was lost. Expletives were heard all through the departmental corridor. But the new draft, written from scratch, always was better.</p><p>I have kept the habit. When I revise my lecture notes for the new year, I don't actually revise the old text, I write it afresh, with occasional direct copies of complex material from last year. It breathes life into the text.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/drafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drafts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LostDrafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LostDrafts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/authenticity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authenticity</span></a></p>