Posts: 1,437
Threads: 223
Joined: Dec 2016
Almost everything I wrote when I first started writing is gone to the trash bins of time (where it belongs). Recently, I have come across some of the remainder. It is from a different time and my voice is obviously different as well but, and I don't know if it is nostalgia or what but they don't seem terrible. What do I do with them now?
Do you struggle with what to do with your early writing?
What do you do with it?
Posts: 345
Threads: 210
Joined: May 2013
Keep it as it is. I learned that lesson the very hard way. I think with all art people like to see growth and often times a reader or listener might resonate more with earlier works depending on what they value in the art. I know with music when I really get into a band I look at a bands early records and sometimes previous projects. That is when you can appreciate a full context of the artists work.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
--mark twain
Bunx
Posts: 1,437
Threads: 223
Joined: Dec 2016
(01-09-2026, 10:22 PM)Bunx Wrote: Keep it as it is. I learned that lesson the very hard way. I think with all art people like to see growth and often times a reader or listener might resonate more with earlier works depending on what they value in the art. I know with music when I really get into a band I look at a bands early records and sometimes previous projects. That is when you can appreciate a full context of the artists work.
This is actually a great point as I certainly have different outlooks and different voice than I had when I was younger. Part of the problem I run into now is that I canalso see areas that need improvement that I didn't see when I was younger.
Thanks
Posts: 149
Threads: 22
Joined: Jan 2026
Send them off in letters and on postcards. Wait thirty years for someone to offer them back to you. Say No Thanks.
Posts: 468
Threads: 403
Joined: Sep 2014
You'd probably like my first poems. When I first started writing poems, I believed that if you didn't use strict traditional forms and proper grammar, you were getting away with stick figures in a world of High Art. There may have been cliches here and there, but at least I made multiple revisions.
I may have been on a medication at the time that helped me do that. But, I care more about wild play than health and craft. Craft is the tension that is there just enough to keep it exciting: like when your girlfriend has a boyfriend, but he lives four hours away: just enough tension, but no real factor in the wild roughness.
Lust is like a welfare check. You burn through it all and it's still there at the beginning of each month.
Regardless of if there's anyone else around.
Just like with Juvenilia.
