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 I've reread very little of my early works, published or unpublished.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 Most of my early unpublished work is buried away somewhere in my parents house.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.
I've rarely gone back to read anything, published or not. Sorry about the bus-train disruption.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, its not one of those long term ones.
DeleteOohf. Transportation problems are the most exhausting. Good thing that it'll get fixed soon.
ReplyDeleteYou should go uncover it!
Ill be glad when its over. I may ask to get off work early unpublished until its done. We get crammed into buses like cattle because of it.
DeleteOur transportation problems here have more to do with snow and ice, neither of which my town is prepared to handle.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy reading older works though.
Im so glad I dont live in snowy region as beautiful as snow looks. I can imag8ne how difficult it must be for those in the northern states!
DeleteLike you, I don't have much time to re-read earlier work deliberately. If I do stumble across anything my reaction to my own writing varies from awe to embarrassment. The bus train thing sounds very frustrating. I hope it improves soon.
ReplyDeleteThe the train service is back to normal. A big relief!
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