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Same here. Also, as a more peculiar, personal type of learning process, I can say that my English writing (my native language is French) has greatly improved during the four years I have been writing and publishing my ebooks, mostly from learning from my mistakes.
Yes of course, it evolves. What I wrote at 16, I would never write the same at 26 or 46 * I nearly wrote 556.'
Hmm. If anything I've regressed as a writer. At least from a technical standpoint. I used to be obsessed with "proper" writing, particularly when I was picking up my hoity-toity degree, eh? *eye rolls at younger self* Nowadays, I like pushing the boundaries to see what I can get away with.
My writing is riddled with sentence frags and misused ellipses (I think em dashes are fugly haha!) but I dig it. And what's the worse that can happen? Someone else doesn't dig it? *GASP* Whatever will I do?? ^_^
Follow-up question:
Who else revisits or rewrites stuff like Mr Tim did with WTF? Personally, my brain just vomits stuff and moves on. Like, I couldn't go back if I tried LMAO!!
Hugs,
Ann
EDIT: And yet, that missing comma bugs the shizz outta me...
If anything, I've regressed as a writer.
I feel better now *smirks*
Nik wrote: "You know there is 'early' Asimov and early Tolstoy, for example, describing the periods of their early writing, as opposed to 'middle' or 'later'. And it's only logical that the writing evolves and...Do you feel there is an 'early' you and have you arrived at 'mature', 'middle' or 'later' writing yet? "
What I think is interesting and also unknown is the 'arrived at' part. It's ongoing, and that is the fun of it, the adventurous part, so I'll leave that open. :-)
M.L. wrote: "What I think is interesting and also unknown is the 'arrived at' part. It's ongoing, and that is the fun of it, the adventurous part, so I'll leave that open. :-)..."We'll let literary critics do the job. The early writing of M.L. Roberts encompassed ...... -:)
I am in the odd position of having three periods with serious inactivity between them. I wrote two novels as a student, I revised one of them when I was about 40 and sold some of them, then much later I started writing ebooks. Equally interesting, I have done the same thing with musical composition, and at the moment I find it quite amusing to go back to the "early period" and play them (piano). The early ones are somewhat immature (as were my "novels") and technically questionable from a purist point of view, nevertheless I also found that I really get attached to them.
Of course I had my sophomoric unrequited love college poetry. Then came my epic poetry phase--but that was actually halfway decent--for which I was able to draft my cousins into performing at a open mic in a bar in San Francisco. Then I moved onto prose b/c there's a teeny-tiny market for poetry and a friend of mine had published a series of fantasy novels. I did work in a few lines of my epic poetry into my only publishable novel but by and large my former writing wouldn't be salvageable w/o a lot of rework.
Alex G wrote: "there's a teeny-tiny market for poetry..."Wonder why poetry lost so much of its glory, because from artistic standpoint its prose (from drabble to novel long) + rhyming and if (and there is a big 'if') beautifully written can be quite engaging.
It seems poetry's most common use today is serving as song's component
Nik wrote: "M.L. wrote: "What I think is interesting and also unknown is the 'arrived at' part. It's ongoing, and that is the fun of it, the adventurous part, so I'll leave that open. :-)..."We'll let litera..."
I can help them out . . . encompassed children's literature. Still one of my favorites! :-)
Alex G wrote: "Of course I had my sophomoric unrequited love college poetry. Then came my epic poetry phase--but that was actually halfway decent--for which I was able to draft my cousins into performing at a ope..."Was that a poetry 'slam?' I went to one once and the variety was incredible. There were serious scholarly readers and some great action performers. One or two were 'three sheets to the wind.' It was interesting!
M.L. wrote: Was that a poetry 'slam?' I went to one once and the variety was incredible. There were serious scholarly readers and some great action performers. One or two were 'three sheets to the wind.' It was interesting!"no, it wasn't a competition. i haven't gone to any live poetry slams (just watched the videos), but, yes, they are very intense. i'm very impressed. yea, i only performed twice and both times it took me awhile to get up the nerve to get up on stage. a drink or two certainly helps.
Tim wrote: "[stuff] I had finished the novel in 6 weeks [stuff]"#LikeABoss
(Just FTR, I actually read all the [stuff] haha!)
Authors, is it an early you writing books for us or a mature one? -:)
I guess I am mature, at 75 yrs old, and very nearly 76, and I have managed to fill more things into that life than most.
Do you feel there is an 'early' you and have you arrived at 'mature', 'middle' or 'later' writing yet?