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 really like some of the things I wrote in the past. Ketil and Yitzy's Adventure In the Xura Dream House is one of my favorite books because I wrote the story (or collection of interrelated stories) that I wanted to read. Same with The Quest For the Wizard's Key and The Quest For Captain Sammy's Treasure. My work has never become popular with anyone else, but I didn't write it for anyone else.
However, some of my previous efforts are the sorts of things where I'd have to kill anyone who found them. They are that bad.
For instance, I have tried several times to revise my 2011 NaNoWriMo project. I had the grain of an interesting idea, but the execution was disastrous. Frankly, this is how I feel about most of my past NaNoWriMo projects and why I refuse to be a slave to word counts anymore. The grindset style of writing leaves me loathing the result.
I once made the mistake of publishing one of my NaNoWriMo projects. I must have been huffing some kind of toxic fumes when I decided this was a good idea. I unpublished it after rereading it. Fortunately, I don't think anyone else saw it.
I am trying to get back to writing what I want to write, not what other people have told me I should want to write.
Anyway, if you're in the mood for something different, check out the stories I mentioned at the beginning of this piece. I still have them up on Amazon, but that may change in the future.
Ornery Owl Has Spoken
Ketil and Yitzy's Adventure in the Xura Dream House Fix-Up Novella
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