It's early morning and I'm trying to be quiet so my wife can sleep. We're "entertaining" today and she's stressed because everything must be perfect. Because...family, you know.
So. I'm wandering aimlessly through the forums and some really old discussions. I mean, here's a comment from Ernest Bywater/Edwards, who left this vale of tears a year or more ago.
One of our still-living writers AJ posted a link to a.PDF that contains a will for writers. As the writer who posted that article says, when you're gone you don't care who gets your old jeans and matching plaid shirts and socks. If you're a writer, though, do you really want your unfinished/unpublished stories to get tossed like your underwear? I know my own wife will happily toss it all the first chance she gets, since she doesn't approve of my smut.
If you're a writer and you think your writing has value, it might be prudent to put something like this article by Neil Gaiman in your own will:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/10/important-and-pass-it-on.html
(Sorry, but the "blog" software doesn't allow links)
Okay, I've done my good deed for the day. I can go back to being a cranky old man.
-ZM