bi_cathy
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- May 26, 2011
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Completely forget? Not really. I know the premise and most of the progression of all my stories, even though I started writing 15 years ago. But I only have 20+ stories published (14 if we count series as one story), so it's easy to remember which is which.
However, there's a clear disconnect in my head pre-I Dare You and post-I Dare You. It was the first story I wrote that I felt really proud about and that spanned 7 or so pages and had a cool plot. It won a monthly contest at the time and stuck around a rating of 4.95+ for a long, long time, maybe a few months, before the 1-star-horde dragged it down. And then, almost everything that I wrote after I Dare You was more elaborate. I think my style evolved, too.
So I pretend the earlier stories don't exist, even though they're all 4.5+. I haven't re-read them. I assume they're good, and they still get really good comments. But I've personally filed them off in the "Try to forget" section.
Now, forgetting scenes and moments in a WIP because I stall and write in bursts and take two years to finish a story? Yes, that'd be me.
However, there's a clear disconnect in my head pre-I Dare You and post-I Dare You. It was the first story I wrote that I felt really proud about and that spanned 7 or so pages and had a cool plot. It won a monthly contest at the time and stuck around a rating of 4.95+ for a long, long time, maybe a few months, before the 1-star-horde dragged it down. And then, almost everything that I wrote after I Dare You was more elaborate. I think my style evolved, too.
So I pretend the earlier stories don't exist, even though they're all 4.5+. I haven't re-read them. I assume they're good, and they still get really good comments. But I've personally filed them off in the "Try to forget" section.
Now, forgetting scenes and moments in a WIP because I stall and write in bursts and take two years to finish a story? Yes, that'd be me.
