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3619841 No.3619841 [Reply] [Original]

So, /lit/, I'm beginning to have doubts about a story I'm piecing together, mainly because I decided to look back at another piece that I threw together, and when I did, my mind was blown.

Is it just writerly nostalgia? I'm 120,000 words into my latest work - the other one I left at 70,000 because I wanted to work on this.

Should I follow a story through to the end or just go where my heart takes me?

>> No.3619848

You always see your previous work through rose colored glasses, just keep going. If you go back to the old one you will later see this new thing and feel the same way.

>> No.3619854

Funny, whenever I look back on my old work I tend to cringe and want to kill myself, then lose all motivation for what I'm currently working on for fear that it may be just as shit.

>> No.3619885

>>3619854
Guess we're all just a bit different

>> No.3619929

I read about, and have experienced, the idea of looking back at work even a day later to find it to be much worse than I remembered. I've never looked back at my old work and thought it was great, if anything I try rewriting it.

>> No.3619952

>>3619854
Yeah, I know that feeling.
>deleting 600 pages of work and immediately regretting it

>> No.3619982

>>3619952
>ever destroying your work
Idiot.

>> No.3620695

>>3619982
I thew away an entire 300 page high fantasy manuscript that I spent like two years working on in middle school earlier this year. Felt pretty good, that thing was such complete shit.