I was reading around about the point or pointlessness of writing online and a thought crossed my over fertile imagination about writing longevity.
When the Grim (Happy?) Reaper takes all of us online authors off into the unlimited blue, I wonder how long our online short stories, online novels, online novellas and ramblings will last?
Maybe quite a long time. Just possibly, given a bit of intelligent will writing which ensures the ongoing payment of domain and web space charges, it is quite feasible that just a tiny bit of immortality could be achieved.
Bearing in mind that gravestones can be dug up to provide space for new builds of the future all too easily.
In comparison, the Internet is vast and, quite possibly, timeless. The expense of keeping an author’s stories online is not much and there is even the possibility that our short stories, online novels and novellas might be passed from hand to hand virally in pdf files and the like. Perhaps our stories really could be read for ever.
Speaking for myself, I quite like reading my old online short stories, online novels and novellas sometimes. After all, I suppose they are exactly the stories I like.
So, when my time comes to leave this temporal Earth, I wonder if the Grim Reaper will will let me use his computer to go online?
Bye for now
Rob
(Rob Hopcott - free online author - feeling kinda old - Hopcott News)
P.S. Hey, Mr Grim Reaper Sir … I’m not ready yet 
Honest!
Aaaaaaaaarghhh …
