IWSG: Rereading Early Work

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. Because my day has been so time-crunched, I'm going to just jump right into the topics and keep the post short.

February 4 question - Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? I've reread very little of my early works, published or unpublished. The former I don't typically reread because I want to get on to writing the next story or book. The latter I don't read because it's so bad that I would get sickened by the poor writing and even the too-far-out-there story ideas. Most of my early unpublished work is buried away somewhere in my parents house. However, if I were to somehow inevitably uncover it, I think I would be tempted to skim through it just to remember how bad I wrote fiction back then and to see how far I've come since.

I've been a little off schedule with my writing this week because of a disruption in the train route that I take to my day job. It takes me as much as an extra hour to get home because of a bus we've had to take on  part of the route.  Because of that, I've almost had no time to work on my writing projects. I had to write this post on my phone in between buses and trains. But the route is supposed to go back to normal  early next week and, as long as it does, then my writing schedule will go back to normal.

Do you reread any of your early writing? Today’s IWSG is brought to you by these super co-hosts:  J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, and Sandra Cox! IWSG was founded by awesome author Alex Cavanaugh, writer of the Cassa Series  of novels!

Until next time . . .