It's OK

The first book I ever wrote has yet to see the light of day. It is currently huddled in a set of folders and notebooks in the darkest reaches of a storage unit in Wisconsin. It’s a novel about a young woman who goes on an epic space adventure and becomes a leader of nations. I wrote it in Junior High, which probably tells you all you need to know about why it sits there in the dark. It's OK to write things and then set them down never to publish them. Just because you wrote it, doesn’t mean you have to make others read it. :-)

It’s also OK to revisit them later and use them as springboards for new and improved projects, which I might do with this novel some day. None of this work is ever wasted. It is all part of the process of learning, growing and becoming a better writer.