Feb
22nd
2015
A Question to Other Authors · 2:45am Feb 22nd, 2015
I have a question for other authors regardless of how well your stories have been received or how many you have.
I have an issue where honestly when I go back and read my older stuff I hate the majority of my own writing. When I'm writing the chapters they seem great at the time and I enjoy re-reading it before publishing but then I go back after a few days or weeks and I cringe at the majority of it.
Some jokes I chuckle and some of it makes me smile but the majority of it seems like garbage to me.
So my main question is if other authors have this problem how do you deal with it? I enjoy writing when I can but I hate the feeling that it's all garbage afterwards.
Personally, I see that as motivation to write better. You look forward, and you wait for the day that you can finally go back and reread something that you're proud of.
well you know how i feel about my old fanfics (not even counting my older original fictions... *shivers*)
I tend to spend at minimum, weeks planning something out. For bigger projects, I may take a few months of idiy thinking up scenarios and backstories before I feel comfortable writing it down
My greatest regret was trying to hop on the Button -ash bandwagon, which I wrote in 3 hours.
Yeah, I get that sometimes but mostly it only happens when I'm reading chapters or stories I wasn't too inspired to write at that moment.
What I get more is actually wanting to improve them by changing a word or two, adding or deleting a sentence or checking for grammar errors (which I usually do)
It's normal. In the webcomic DMFA is even a joke about it.
Know the feeling, you're not alone
As you get better you would do things better given the same chance, but you would only do them better because you learnt by doing it in the first place 
I'll try that again: In the process of writing your writing improves. That's how you get better. What you can do 'now' is better than what you could do 'then' so it's bound to seem worse. Not that your writing before wasn't your best, just that your best got better!
What was that quote I heard.....
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
This article should shine some light on that Tic:
http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/famous-authors-who-hate-their-own-work-and-why-you-should-love-yours/
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