I was visited by a spirit from the past.
A friend asked me how to go about writing. As you can guess, the first thing I told him was “write.” Among other things, I also said, “never throw away notes or drafts."
I have every scrap, outline, note or story fragment I’ve ever written that was at least a complete phrase and was intended to be a story or part of one.
I have bookshelves which are mausoleums for ideas that have passed on.