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When I delete my old work
6 years ago
I have a habit of deleting my old stories and artwork. When I go through my gallery and see my old work I feel embarrassed about creating things that are low quality. Sometimes I just decide to erase them from existence so I don't feel as bad. Though I understand how this can be annoying for people who like an image/story and want to look at/read it again only for it to vanish. But I want to at least be able to open my gallery without feeling so ashamed that I close the browser tab. I dread re-reading my own stories, because it hurts to find errors that I missed while editing. This makes writing sequels tricky.
I guess im writing this journal to reach out and see if other artists/writers feel the same way. Do you ever feel shame/embarrassment when you look at the oldest entries in your gallery? If so, what do you do about it?
I guess im writing this journal to reach out and see if other artists/writers feel the same way. Do you ever feel shame/embarrassment when you look at the oldest entries in your gallery? If so, what do you do about it?
Everyone is terrible when they start out. That's normal. It's always gonna suck to go back and look at old stuff even if the old stuff is good, just because part of being an artist is improving over time.
At least if old stuff is still there then you've got something to compare to to see exactly how much you've improved. Nobody benefits when an artist pretends their old work doesn't exist.
Tl;Dr: celebrate and learn from old works, Steven King didn't start as an award winning author.
I love your written works, and very much the old ones too! Even though I can see you getting better, I still think the old stuff is worth keeping around because it's still good
For me, I wasn't even happy with my work when I posted it in the first place, so it can't feel any worse about it later!