AG31
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I re-read my first (and longest and best) story this weekend when I ran out of library books right at the holiday. I don't think I'd read it beginning to end since it was published three years ago. My reactions are below.
What about you? If you do re-read, how often? What do you think? If you don't, how come?
My two reactions
1 - I was very pleasantly reassured that the story was as good as I thought it was at the time I wrote it. Very satisfying to one of my sensibilities. I was even surprised that I had produced some of the well crafted sentences. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to pull it off today. The story was written at a time of heightened eroticism in my life, and that drove me to creative over-achievement. (Not so much stories 2 and 3...)
2 - The story is in its 9th version (on Smashwords... too cumbersome here on Lit.), almost all of it small fixes. Several editorial readings by friends. So I was flabbergasted when I came upon twenty two, count 'em, twenty two diddley squat things that needed fixing. Stuff like repeated words within a paragraph, extraneous words left over from earlier edits, extra spaces between sentences, wrong words (as if I'd been using voice to text). Blah, blah, blah.... How does this happen????
EDIT: In the course of fixing those twenty two I found three more!!!
What about you? If you do re-read, how often? What do you think? If you don't, how come?
My two reactions
1 - I was very pleasantly reassured that the story was as good as I thought it was at the time I wrote it. Very satisfying to one of my sensibilities. I was even surprised that I had produced some of the well crafted sentences. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to pull it off today. The story was written at a time of heightened eroticism in my life, and that drove me to creative over-achievement. (Not so much stories 2 and 3...)
2 - The story is in its 9th version (on Smashwords... too cumbersome here on Lit.), almost all of it small fixes. Several editorial readings by friends. So I was flabbergasted when I came upon twenty two, count 'em, twenty two diddley squat things that needed fixing. Stuff like repeated words within a paragraph, extraneous words left over from earlier edits, extra spaces between sentences, wrong words (as if I'd been using voice to text). Blah, blah, blah.... How does this happen????
EDIT: In the course of fixing those twenty two I found three more!!!
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