02-20-2010, 02:20 PM | #1 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
You know what's really weird?
Going back and re-reading short stories and articles that you wrote 20 years ago!
It is so weird. Not the writing, even, though it is really not that horrible -- I probably deleted the really bad stuff, but to read it almost as though it was written by someone else -- which in a way it was. I look at the date and know it was just a year before the divorce, with three kids ages 1,3,5 -- the changes that I've been through in the last twenty years, the stories I was writing, and also thinking what if I'd kept pushing myself to write and publish as hard as I was pushing then. Where would I be now, what would be different. Like I said weird, really weird.... |
02-26-2010, 03:24 PM | #2 |
writer
Posts: 15
Karma: 46
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Alberta, Canada
Device: ebookwise 1150
|
More than weird, I expect. I have the sealed pages of a historical novel manuscript that I peddled around about 35 years ago. It was a 150,000 word tome that garnered some pleasant rejection slips.
Could I open and read it? I wouldn't dare. Funnily enough it was weird --the title was "Wyrd's Harvest". Christopher Hoare The Iskander series – Arrival, Deadly Enterprise, The Wildcat’s Victory, The Wildcat's Burden see links to all at – http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/...topher%20Hoare http://www.freewebs.com/chriskander/ http://thewildcatsvictory.wordpress.com |
Advert | |
|
02-27-2010, 06:40 AM | #3 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
You should take a peek Christopher.
|
02-27-2010, 02:23 PM | #4 |
Addict
Posts: 355
Karma: 600000
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Boston
Device: Palm TX
|
I've got to say, it's worth peeking. The novel that I had locked away for years had lots of embarrassing dialogue and over-exposition, but underneath all that fat was a really imaginative story with a nice structure worth resurrecting. It was 185K originally. I've cut it down to 166K and I'll probably cut another 50K.
|
02-27-2010, 03:53 PM | #5 | |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
Quote:
|
|
Advert | |
|
03-01-2010, 09:22 PM | #6 |
Wizard
Posts: 1,222
Karma: 769316
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Eternal summer
Device: 350, iPad, PW
|
While cleaning out my closet yesterday, I found some fun surprises. Original short stories I wrote ten years ago. Awesomely bad. But I loved every minute of it.
And then to top things off, I opened up some more boxes and found a present my parents left me.... My first ever complete work. A storybook illustrated and written by yours truly. Seriously, I was 12. And it was bad. =) |
03-01-2010, 09:54 PM | #7 | |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
Quote:
|
|
03-01-2010, 09:57 PM | #8 |
Wizard
Posts: 1,222
Karma: 769316
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Eternal summer
Device: 350, iPad, PW
|
You know what I think would be fun..a bad writing bowl
Post your worst. |
03-02-2010, 05:15 AM | #9 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
Oh, no.
|
03-02-2010, 05:41 AM | #10 |
Addict
Posts: 355
Karma: 600000
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Boston
Device: Palm TX
|
|
03-02-2010, 06:55 AM | #11 |
Author & Digital Publishe
Posts: 90
Karma: 534770
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hertford, NC
Device: Kindle
|
I tend to erase my worst...but ...
|
03-02-2010, 09:39 AM | #12 |
Author: Clade Josso
Posts: 80
Karma: 500474
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Michigan
Device: none
|
I had started a Star Trek novel in which the Borg end up smashing through the Federation, but looking back on it, the writing wasn't that good-at all!
|
03-02-2010, 02:08 PM | #13 |
Great Beach Reads!
Posts: 202
Karma: 300000
Join Date: Dec 2009
Device: Kindle 2
|
How funny - I recently read some old short stories I hadn't seen in years. It was almost as if someone else wrote them, and yet I was pleased that they still worked. Thought about reworking a couple and posting them somewhere but they were actually typed on a typewriter (after first being written in long hand), so editing would involve putting them into my computer.
|
03-02-2010, 04:55 PM | #14 |
Zealot
Posts: 106
Karma: 271834
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Minnesota
Device: none
|
I saw a short story that I wrote in 9th grade... It was for English class, and it took place as a supplemental story to Homer's Odyssey. While sailing on the ship, the crew encounters a dragon...
Pretty sure I admitted, even back then, that it was a silly concept |
03-04-2010, 09:57 AM | #15 |
YA Author
Posts: 46
Karma: 501408
Join Date: Feb 2010
Device: none
|
I still have my notebook of short stories and poetry...definately a good laugh.
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Something Weird Going on in 0.7.6 | Lady Fitzgerald | Calibre | 11 | 07-03-2010 10:23 AM |
Weird formatting. | lininjim | Calibre | 7 | 12-11-2009 10:50 AM |
Weird Names | hatem35 | Sony Reader | 7 | 12-04-2009 04:27 PM |
Weird SD problem | hnoto | Sony Reader | 0 | 12-03-2009 12:31 AM |
Something weird happened | pshrynk | Amazon Kindle | 1 | 09-10-2009 02:19 PM |