do you remember everything you write?

[cacian]

I am not suggesting plots or characters just literature/text/passages we actually write.
To revisit passages because there is an importance there somewhere is perhaps suggestive of changes much needed in literature for literature. Readers may confer and writers may differ.
To remember most of what one writes indicates how to write for the next time. Ie the next time around one writes it differently.
Revisiting previous work for alternative writing is maybe a clue to how we may develop with the next generations because just like fashion writing should perhaps update. :)
So to recap should a writer be able to rewrite a whole story all over again without looking?

[cafolini]

You mean today cheese tomorrow pork out of past snort?

[YesNo]

I don't write much, but some of the things I've written started out one way and ended up quite differently after various versions. If I don't write it down though I would forget it.

[osho]

I do not remember even 2 % of what I write and I do read voraciously and voluminously and write prolifically and what I write and have written in English does not constitute even 5 % of the size I am doing overall. I write on a number of forums and it is hard to commit to memories so many bulks of information . Why should I remember them after all ? What use? This is a funny question , cacain.

[cacian]

Hi osho the reason I mentioned is because many times I have written a poem on the computer and then it suddenly disappears and so I had to rewrite it again out of memory. Not an easy thing to do because a) I am disheartened to have lost the piece at the first place and b) I want to rewrite it again in a hurry so not to forget.
So it happened to me quite a few times.
The reason I mention this is because I feel there is consciousness in writing that needs addressing evaluating. Ie I feel I must memorise what I write because I could use the lines here and there in other works and in a different way.
See my OP.

[osho]

Maybe. Everybody is an island. Mannerisms, habits, customs shift when geographical and cultural domains vary. Upbringings may have indeed an immense role. Hillwalker writes one way and I and you do has a different style. Since his is a different rearing, tendering and might have a good educational background. Atheist here is a wonderful critic. If you remember what you write maybe due to your particular habit and you may be writing llimitably and I do illimitably.

Writing for me is a cup of tea or brandy or whiskey or something that intoxicates me and I get lost in writing. I write on a number of sites at the same time and also on a few languages too and writing has been a kind of involuntarily done things likened to breathing in and breathing out. Is it necessary to remember when you breathe in and out. Maybe it will interest Yoga gurus not you and me.

cacain, do not take it otherwise and it is really nice if you can remember what you write

[hannah_arendt]

I think that I remember about 10% of what I write.