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"Hold on to your old writing. Don't destroy it, don't throw it away. Keep it"

SchitzoSchitzo
edited 2011-10-25 03:26:18 in General
They're somethin' else.
Yeah, no. This shit needs to die in the purifying flames of holy hell fire (say that five times fast).

I mean holy shit. It's bad enough that I was kind of an angsty douchebag back then. But I was also a chauvanistic, faux-intellectual, god complexified, pussy withdrawl afflicted little shit that thought he was so goddamn clever and witty and oh god it's coming back why

It is settled death by kerosene hell
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  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Yeah, much too late for me anyways.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    As long as you REMEMBER how shit you were, then I don't see why you should keep your older works. That's why I threw mines away.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    *keeps everything*

    *sentimental douche* ;>
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    It's nice to check it for early mistakes and old memories. But yeah, I threw my own early writing away. Mostly because wheeee, burned computer.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Totes agreeing with The Conductor.
  • AHRAHR
    I still have my old stories saved.

    They are really bad. TT_TT
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I haven't deleted my stories yet because I didn't want to sort them out in case some are salvageable.

    But now I remember that it's pretty much all shit anyway, except for maybe one or two things. DELETE!
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    ^^, ^ I am trying to read through all mine to see which are salvageable. The whole experience is painful, to say the least. I was trying to read through all my old shit to try and find inspiration for my teen black comedy, but I guess I have much less to work with than I initially thought. Holy fuck some of that shit's bad.

    If I want to make it a thematically mature work, a lot of liberty needs to be taken with a lot of conventions of that genre XD
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    My old art is burned into my head ;.;
  • EvergreenEvergreen
    I'm an obsessive archiver, so I have basically everything except for the very few things I tried to write on our old desktop that we got rid of, and a lot (unfortunately) of my NationStates writing from before I adopted the practice of drafting it in word before posting, because several forums I've been on vanished or expired or whatever.

    My old stuff is kind of terrible, maybe not as much as that of some people here...it's just a little silly because all of it bears the influence and presence of a girl I had a huge crush on throughout most of high school and based a different character on in essentially every setting I wrote in. 

    I was just a lot weaker at characterization back then. Then again, I'm not so great now. Then again, I haven't even really written anything for months...
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    On a purely practical level, it's amazing how much stuff you thought was of sentimental value turns out not to be so when you're moving and you have to have a clear out.


    I've thrown out a lot of what I've written and I don't think anything of value was lost.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Old emo poetry, why I can't I even laugh at you for schadenfreude?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    You're too much of a narcissist to laugh at yourself?
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Yes, but even without the egomania, this is too painful to even be funny:


    http://www.forever-eternity0.deviantart.com/


    Over 200. ;_;


     

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Man, what be with ya'll

    I always keep my old shit for sentimental value

    That fanfic I wrote in the 7th grade may have terrible characters, awful plot, massive amounts of plot holes, and other shit, but dammit I can't help but love-hate it anyway
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    And now I lost the will to deceive the heart
    Growing brings a different law to obey
    A joke of which believing is the best part

    what does this even mean
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Juan, it's poetry. It has no meaning
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Beats me, what is the context? Though since it's fueled by teenage hormones, I suppose a Freudian reading would be the best guess.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-10-25 16:19:57
    You can change. You can.
    ^^ you're probably joking, aren't you?

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    edited 2011-10-25 16:00:57
    Diet NEET
    My guess is that it's that love is a blissful delusion, or someshit. The first and last stanza would suggest so, but all I can make of the middle part is contrasts-that-are-meaningless-but-sound-profound. To a 16-year old.
  • AHRAHR
    I have an old fanfiction account I get to laugh at. 

    You could probably find it, but I doubt anyone is interested.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass
    ^^ That poem is...poor. Although no worse than my teenage poetry. I bet even people who actually end up as published poets in adulthood probably find their teenage stuff embarrassing
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    My old stuff was pretty bad. Some I purged later on, but most was lost in a computer crash.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Meh, I sorta believe I learned from my mistakes. Last year I cranked out 26 Spenserian stanzas out overnight for a uni class and got a 10-(we were allowed to get creative, I decided to do an analysis of the poem in the meter of said poem). It's one of the reasons I switched masters to something more substantial, but that's another story.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    You switched to literature, right? What were you studying before?
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Bachelor was English, which I finsihed in Ireland, then did half a year of English Literature(which was the suck compared to the level it was in Ireland), then switch to Research of Art and Literature, which is more focused on critical theory.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I got rid of 70+ pieces of personal writing today. Very glad I did. Thanks, Schitzo.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    You guys have problems

    I never get rid of shit
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    http://shadowater.deviantart.com/art/Aryion-the-Raptor-49718135 Yep. I uploaded some of my old shit as well. It is currently in scraps

    I should migrate to Icalasari
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^^Why does that involve having problems? I know Lovecraft's early work, for example, is lost because he burned it all.

    (Well, admittedly, Lovecraft was kinda nuts, but he was a great writer.)
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