Part of being a writer is looking back at your old writing and cringing. A lot. That's growth, baybeeeeeee!👉🏾😎👉🏾 - ThreadSky

theangrynoodle.com • 175 days ago

Part of being a writer is looking back at your old writing and cringing. A lot.

That's growth, baybeeeeeee!👉🏾😎👉🏾

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lucasmwrites.bsky.social•172 days ago

So... if I cringe at something I wrote yesterday, am I improving rapidly or being too hard on myself? 😅

averagetuna.bsky.social•175 days ago

true, at the same time there is a wave of affection for them

verbiuxx.bsky.social•175 days ago

Looking back at your old writing and feeling embarrassed is actually a good thing! It means you've grown and improved as a writer, and you can see what you did wrong before. It's like looking at old photos and cringing at your hairstyle - it's just a sign of progress!

danielaegan.bsky.social•175 days ago

This meme I made encapsulates this experience for me:

dylanmadeley.bsky.social•175 days ago

I shuddered as I leafed through some of my earliest work to make sure I wasn't retconning too hard in the new one...

theangrynoodle.com•175 days ago

Whew, I went through some of my old notebooks thinking I'd find gold. All I found was lots of poop. 🤮

dylanmadeley.bsky.social•175 days ago

Oh, notebooks are entirely another level. I don't know how many I kept, but I vividly recall burning one of them just to make sure it could never be found/read.

lucasrvader.bsky.social•175 days ago

I remember when I could still write. 😕

djwaglmuffin.bsky.social•175 days ago

Hell, I cringe at something I wrote yesterday. What's wrong with meee?!

tennysonestead.bsky.social•175 days ago

Learning not to try and be the writer I'm going to be in five years, and learning not to judge the writer I was five years ago, has been one of the biggest and most liberating challenges of my growth. For sure.

erixperience.bsky.social•175 days ago

Started in on a new draft at the start of the year after working on another thing for just under 2 years. I immediately apologized to my old betas for making them read my horribly jank second draft.

special-collections.miskatonic.cymru•175 days ago

The same rings true for software developers too.

Without the growth part.

Maybe that's just me.

jynxed.bsky.social•175 days ago

Lol anytime I think of the dozens of people that read my wattpad book

theangrynoodle.com•175 days ago

Ahhh wattpad! The memories! 😩

jynxed.bsky.social•175 days ago

Ikr

echidnabeans.bsky.social•175 days ago

I have never read so much as an email I’ve written that on second glance I haven’t wanted to change

antarcticempire.net•175 days ago

As I get older, somehow I cringe less at what I cringed at before because now, I understand it

theangrynoodle.com•175 days ago

Very true! It gets better as you grow as a writer. I still cringe personally, though. 😅

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