Short Stories

Just read over a bunch of my short stories. Some only a few months old, some over a year old. I like how after so much time not looking at them and practically fogetting the whole story line while busying myself with my novels, I actually like them now.

I don't look at them and think this character seems boring, theres too much description, too much dialogue, I don't fully express things like I could- using the same old boring descriptions, this and that seems forced because it had to be added, that wasn't what I wanted but thought it worked better, and so on and so on.

I can just read the story like an outsider and appreciate it for what it is. I don't badger myself and think EDIT, EDIT, EDIT. I'm just reading it. Sure, I may fix a seplling mistake here or there. But I'm reading it just to look back on my writings.

I wish I could always look at my work like that, and not only months after I last thought about it! I have to admit, reading those, I don't feel like such a bad writer. I don't really give myself much credit because I never feel like I'm moving forward- I never feel like I'm improving. I feel like I make the same mistakes, use the same pretenses, boring characters, have the same bad grammar, and yadda yadda.

Sure someone else might look at them and still see that. But I have to say I'm darn proud of those short stories. I hope one day I can always look at myself like this.


Lots of love,
Samantha-Aniwaya

PS: I wonder if that just means I'm better at short stories. Hmm.

Nah!! I love novels too much!