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Snowy days are perfect for doing major
re-writes on old, terribly written and formatted articles. Listening
to the wind blow while watching the flakes pile up is somehow very
calming. There's no pressure to go anywhere or do much of anything.
That fact lends a little more patience to my writing process so that
I can deal with all my past mistakes with slightly less frustration.
It's a real eye opener sometimes to see
how much improvement you've made since day one of being published.
Makes you wonder why they even accepted some of it. Ha! I mean, I
really have to dig into some of these. Once I'm done, some of them
are barely recognizable as rewrites. That's OK. In fact, it's more
than OK. Getting those awful first articles offline and putting up
new and improved work is better for my writing reputation.
That being said, I did have some great
ideas back then in the land of mental freshness. Just didn't get them
across as well as I can now. In fact, sometimes going through my
older stuff helps get my writing blood pumping. It's been so long
since I wrote some of these articles and posts that I've completely
forgotten them.
I also love adding new experience or
new slants to my old articles. It really makes them “pop” as they
say. Sometimes, if I'm in a particularly peaceful mode, I can get
several article ideas from just one old, crappy article. But that's
not all.
The funniest thing is, it gets me
wondering if, in the future, the ones I write now will seem just as
elementary as those oldies but baddies to me. I bet they will.
Because, as writers, we never really stop growing, do we?
Anyway, it sure is a relaxing day. Just
sitting here waiting out the storm and working on posts long
forgotten. Pulling those old relics from the grave and making them
new again. Isn't rebirth glorious?
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