Have you ever done this

[Dao-of-Serenity]

Have you ever read a chapter you created a year ago, and was like: Hellll No! What in the fuck name is this....delete!

Have you ever read a chapter you created six month ago, and was like: Umm...hmm okay...make sense! I really improved!

Have you ever read a chapter you created three months ago, and was like: Oh, masterpiece, but needed editing so badly!

Have you ever read a chapter you createf a month ago, and was like: Oh! Shit! FUCK!! Masterpiece!!!!!! OHHH! Masterpiece!!!!!!

Let me publish this extremely glorious shit!

Oh dear authors, have you ever felt this way?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Yes. Yes. No. No.

 

[LilRora]

No. Yes. Yes. No.

I read my oldest serious (as in 2-3 years old) stories only once or twice, and my thoughts were more along the lines of: ...What in the flying fuck did I do.

However, there was affection there as well, because damn, seeing how much my writing can change in what feels like very short year or two.

 

[Le_ther]

Have you ever read a chapter you created a year ago, and was like: Hellll No! What in the fuck name is this....delete!

Have you ever read a chapter you created six month ago, and was like: Umm...hmm okay...make sense! I really improved!

Have you ever read a chapter you created three months ago, and was like: Oh, masterpiece, but needed editing so badly!

Have you ever read a chapter you createf a month ago, and was like: Oh! Shit! FUCK!! Masterpiece!!!!!! OHHH! Masterpiece!!!!!!

Let me publish this extremely glorious shit!

Oh dear authors, have you ever felt this way?

Observing some of the authors I kept watching. It's just funny how one can cringe in their own creation perhaps it's just a part of their maturity and growing to become a much better author. Coincidentally, most first works that started has bad prologues and early chapters but continues to get better later on. I guess this is what you author's call as early chapter dilemma.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Yes, but I usually work to better it rather than delete and I have yet to find a chapter of my own writing that I think is amazing.

 

[nowme_cres]

Have you ever read a chapter you created a year ago, and was like: Hellll No! What in the fuck name is this....delete!

Have you ever read a chapter you created six month ago, and was like: Umm...hmm okay...make sense! I really improved!

Have you ever read a chapter you created three months ago, and was like: Oh, masterpiece, but needed editing so badly!

Have you ever read a chapter you createf a month ago, and was like: Oh! Shit! FUCK!! Masterpiece!!!!!! OHHH! Masterpiece!!!!!!

Let me publish this extremely glorious shit!

Oh dear authors, have you ever felt this way?

tahts life

 

[LadyIsak]

I used to look back at my old work and find it unreadably bad — the effective ~pre-garbage lifespan seemed to be numbered in weeks, if not days. Eventually, though, I got to the point where I don’t hate things I’d written … as long as they weren’t written prior to about the middle of 2016. Everything before then? Unreadable garbage.

It is, at least, a fixed cut-off point.

I hardly think my work is stunning, but I no longer hate it and I think I’m mostly accomplishing what I set out to do with my stories.

I’ve also managed to get over the urge to endlessly revise older work, especially stuff I’ve already posted. I do tweak it occasionally, but it’s all very minor stuff — fixing spelling errors, at most adding a sentence or two or changing a word to fix a minor plot hole or continuity error.

I have occasionally gone back to read older work (post-2016 work at least) and found it to be better than I remembered, but I can’t say the feeling ever exceeds “hey, this is pretty good!”

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I'm a man. Men only have three feelings: Hatred, Horny, and Hungry. Some claim Horny is just a subset of hungry. Either way, I am completely dead inside and never felt anything like you mention.

 

[Vnator]

Yes to all! My writing has only gotten better with practice, and having good guides on what to focus on and what I can do better helps tremendously.

 

[tiaf]

I wonder how my readers got past the first chapter of my first story. My second story came a year later to life, so it's still readable.

 

[Ssthat]

I write a chapter thinking it's amazing but then read it and want to cry

 

[georgelee5786]

I've only felt the first way

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Have you ever read a chapter you created a year ago, and was like: Hellll No! What in the fuck name is this....delete!

In that case, I revise.

Have you ever read a chapter you created six month ago, and was like: Umm...hmm okay...make sense! I really improved!

Do I see my improvement? Yes. Still, I revise.

Have you ever read a chapter you created three months ago, and was like: Oh, masterpiece, but needed editing so badly!

Is it a masterpiece? I ask myself. Nah, it's impossible, but I'm lazy to revise a recent work, so let it be.

Have you ever read a chapter you createf a month ago, and was like: Oh! Shit! FUCK!! Masterpiece!!!!!! OHHH! Masterpiece!!!!!!

Did I ever write a masterpiece? Readers say no. I believe so, too, but I still write coz I want to finish what I started.

Let me publish this extremely glorious shit!

I publish once I completed an entire manuscript, that it gets me intimidated at the mere thought of rewriting all that stuff again.

Oh dear authors, have you ever felt this way?

Many times. Though, I'd say, it's inverted for me.

 

[placeintime]

First three definitely. When I read what I wrote a year ago, I was like wtf. First I think how did I ever publish this. The second is how my readers could read it? XD

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Yes, but not for a long time. Once you earn enough skill points, you'll be much happier with your writing. Just beware of procreation. That pretty much eliminates your writing time.

 

[CubicleHermit]

I've kind of got the opposite. The first ~25,000 words of my WIP were polished and edited a lot, but it took me 2+ years to get through them. Once I started posting chapters online, I've written the next ~40,000 words in 14 months (and with a couple of long-ish gaps in there.)

Part I and the very beginning of Part II look a lot like what I'd want to if I ever re-edit this into a traditional book. The rest of part II needs a lot of work to get to the same standard.

Either way, this is a hobby not a job for me, and I'm having more fun keeping a story moving vs. trying to get it perfect.