diff --git a/lib/snippets/copyright/index.ts b/lib/snippets/copyright/index.ts
index 8b5bb78..8c08ca7 100644
--- a/lib/snippets/copyright/index.ts
+++ b/lib/snippets/copyright/index.ts
@@ -10,34 +10,44 @@ import { FileMapper } from './file_mapper';
 import { CopyrightOptions } from './copyright_options';
 
 export default class Copyright implements Snippet {
+  private options: CopyrightOptions | null = null;
+  private cwd: string = '';
+
   async start (cwd: string): Promise<void> {
-    const options = (await this.load_options_file (cwd))
-    || (await this.gather_options ());
+    this.cwd = cwd;
+    await this.load_options_file();
+    if (!this.options)
+      await this.gather_options ();
 
     await FileMapper.map_all_files (
-      cwd,
-      Copyright.fix_file_license,
-      [ options ]
+      this.cwd,
+      this.fix_file_license.bind(this)
     );
+
+    if (await new Confirm({
+      message: 'should those settings be saved for the next run?'
+    }).run()) {
+      this.save_options_file();
+    }
   }
 
-  private async gather_options (): Promise<CopyrightOptions> {
-    const options = (new CopyrightOptions);
-    options.author = await new Input ({ message: 'author' })
+  private async gather_options (): Promise<void> {
+    this.options = (new CopyrightOptions);
+    this.options.author = await new Input ({ message: 'author' })
       .run ();
-    options.email = await new Input ({ message: 'email' })
+    this.options.email = await new Input ({ message: 'email' })
       .run ();
-    options.company = await new Input ({ message: 'company' })
+    this.options.company = await new Input ({ message: 'company' })
       .run ();
-    options.software = await new Input ({ message: 'software name' })
+    this.options.software = await new Input ({ message: 'software name' })
       .run ();
-    options.has_license = await new Confirm ({
+    this.options.has_license = await new Confirm ({
       message:
        'would you like to specify a license?'
     })
       .run ();
-    if (options.has_license) {
-      options.license = await new AutoComplete ({
+    if (this.options.has_license) {
+      this.options.license = await new AutoComplete ({
         name:    'license',
         message: 'choose a license',
         limit:   10,
@@ -45,33 +55,28 @@ export default class Copyright implements Snippet {
       })
         .run ();
     }
-
-    return options;
   }
 
-  private async load_options_file
-  (folder: string): Promise<CopyrightOptions|null> {
-    const file_path = path.join (folder, '.liconfig.json');
+  private async load_options_file (): Promise<void> {
+    const file_path = path.join (this.cwd, '.liconfig.json');
 
     if (await fs.pathExists (file_path)) {
-      return JSON.parse (
+      this.options = JSON.parse (
         await fs.readFile (file_path, 'utf-8')
       );
     }
 
-    return null;
+    this.options = null;
   }
 
-  private async save_options_file
-  (folder: string, options: CopyrightOptions): Promise<void> {
-    const file_path = path.join (folder, '.liconfig.json');
-    await fs.writeFile (file_path, JSON.stringify (options, null, 2), 'utf-8');
+  private async save_options_file(): Promise<void> {
+    const file_path = path.join (this.cwd, '.liconfig.json');
+    await fs.writeFile (file_path, JSON.stringify (this.options, null, 2), 'utf-8');
   }
 
-  private static fix_file_license (
+  private fix_file_license (
     data: string,
-    filename: string,
-    [ options ]: [CopyrightOptions]
+    filename: string
   ): string | null {
     const regex = /\/\*\s+\*\sCopyright[\s\S]*?\*\/\n{0,2}/gu;
     const shebang = /^#!.*?\n\n/gu;
@@ -80,7 +85,7 @@ export default class Copyright implements Snippet {
     if (!(/\.(?:js|ts|mjs)$/u).test (filename) && !regex.test (data))
       return null;
     return (shebang_line ? shebang_line[0] : '')
-     + CopyrightGenerator.get_copyright_notice (options)
+     + CopyrightGenerator.get_copyright_notice (this.options as CopyrightOptions)
      + data.replace (regex, '')
        .replace (shebang, '');
   }