Post by Brownie on Nov 8, 2024 17:55:27 GMT -5
I mean, you're going to improve over five years of any hobby, if you're doing it regularly. That's very normal, especially if you're young/just starting. It's healthy to think of previous works not as bad, but as stepping stones to your current skillset: you can't make a masterpiece without first fumbling a dozen or more drafts.
I sucked at writing in high school, but it was very important that I wrote what I did. If I didn't make mistakes then and learn from them, I would have never improved past that phase. I also think that, past a certain threshold of "good enough", where you are proficient at both prose and craft, your style will just. Naturally change as you take on new projects and new experiences. That's also very normal.
I went through an awful phase of writing in first person present with really edgy narrators. The writing wasn't bad, it was good for its target audience of YA, but I still cringe when reading it. I probably wouldn't be able to write in that style now as well as I did then, because I had a lot of practice then and I don't typically write in that way anymore. But it was important that I did write all that, because I needed to learn from it.
I sucked at writing in high school, but it was very important that I wrote what I did. If I didn't make mistakes then and learn from them, I would have never improved past that phase. I also think that, past a certain threshold of "good enough", where you are proficient at both prose and craft, your style will just. Naturally change as you take on new projects and new experiences. That's also very normal.
I went through an awful phase of writing in first person present with really edgy narrators. The writing wasn't bad, it was good for its target audience of YA, but I still cringe when reading it. I probably wouldn't be able to write in that style now as well as I did then, because I had a lot of practice then and I don't typically write in that way anymore. But it was important that I did write all that, because I needed to learn from it.
I post a lot of Warrior Cats artwork there too. Gosh I wish I had enough time to do NaNoWriMo, I totally forgot that was this month omg. I still might give it a try and see how far I get, but I don't have a lot of writing time anymore.
