History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: i've gotten permission to post a pm that was sent to me earlier, about first world problems for some [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(50,853 posts)The writer of the PM has talent and writes well. If she wrote her autobiography down in long form (book length), it would help her.
She need not show it to anyone, but if she did, at some point in the future, entirely at her choice, it might do someone else a world of good. She has the talent that she might be able to do the world some good were it published, but she has no obligation to do anything like that. Writing out is primarily for herself and if that is as far as it goes, so be it.
For writing for long term storage to delay showing the history for decades if need be (or to never show), format it for compatibility and durability. Write it out as a set of simple text files per chapter. Put it on a USB stick or two and a DVD / CD (for backup redundancy: three copies) and put them in a bank safe deposit box. Then deep format the drives of the computer it was written on (write all over the drives) so that the operating system and software needs to be re-installed.