muladhara | (no subject)

I know I've made a billion posts about writing recently (well, what feels like a billion, given I haven't hardcore written anything in over two years), but here's another one.

Thankfully, a short one.

I am seriously considering rewriting my sci-fi story.

Here's the thing. I suck at sci-fi. Science is my friend, but only in real life. Here's the other thing. I last tinkered with this story eleven years ago. I haven't touched it since before I started at uni. That means the writing will be awful. I could start it from scratch, as I know the basic plot (which isn't friends with science, heh), but I can't remember any of the character names.

Which I suppose doesn't matter in the great scheme of things, but...I don't know if it would feel the same.

(I've just thought - I went through a phase of thinking I should just chuck everything I love at stories, which would make them easier to write, which is why the kids' story has an alien and various cryptids, and last November's story has talking animals and a werewolf. But I've never written anything about time travel and...well...there's a reason I have a tag called "time travel is my secret love". I suppose it falls into the being unable to write sci-fi? It's not to say I haven't tried. I've tried repeatedly since the age of eleven (no, really) ).

I just. I really DON'T want to read ten year old writing. Cringing doesn't even cover how embarrassed I will feel.

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As someone who used to write a lot almost ten years ago and hasn't in a long time and is feeling increasingly uneasy about that, I say you should do it, even if it's hard.

Besides, sometimes when I've gone back to older stuff I've written, I've actually been pleasantly surprised.

Oh for sure, I agree. There's some stuff I have from school that I'm still really proud of, so I do know what you mean. However, after I wrote this entry, I went and checked the text file, 'cause I couldn't remember the ship's name (recalled it as Open Office was booting), and read through the first three or so pages? It was really awful. Honestly. But in some ways, I'm tempted to rewrite at least a part of it. Which I might yet do.