Did I Ever Hate Something I've Written? It seems to be a common belief that you should always hate your past work because you constantly improve and should be disgusted with your early efforts. Well, maybe if you read the first story you've written in front of people. Maybe if you don't take the time to learn the basics. It seems counter productive to hate anything you write. I used to paper my wall with rejection slips when I started writing. When I got to 140, I tore it down and tossed the mess away. Why must we always be reminded of failure? I was beating myself down because some of those rejections were from publications that wouldn't have published my story if it had been Gone With The Wind. I've never been disgusted with or hated anything I've written in the past. Could I do it better? Not within my fictional world, unless it's from an editorial end where my editing would be different than another editor. I can say I didn't
My fiction, life in general, and war, with some pics from my Marine days in Vietnam.