Here we are in February and I’m certainly seeing the effects of Climate Change in the prologued periods of cold we’ve had this winter, not to mention more snow than ever.
February 4 question – Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you?
Rereading early works, especially things I wrote before I decided to try to be a published author showed me how very little I knew about writing, despite the fact that I’d been teaching high school English for years. While the storyline wasn’t bad, the head-hopping and other writing errors were shameful. Even the punctuation needed work. Luckily, in my early career, I had some excellent editors who showed me the error of my ways. I’m a much better writer for having written those early stories and so many other books. It seems the more you write, the better you can get–but perfection? That’s another matter.
But, on the same note, since I’ve started to put my books into audio files using the Virtual Voice function, I’ve listened to books I wrote several years ago, surprised that I could be taken in by my own stories the way I have been. I suppose it’s all a matter of taste. I love transporting my readers to other times and places, and if I do it to myself, so much the better.
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Living the Dream 
Climate ? Drearily even less snow than usual here, apart from four days at New Year, almost no sun, ever, just variations of the theme of mist, mizzle, drizzle, you get the picture.
Intriguing, I suppose, that the book I wrote as a student, then lost for about fourteen years, achieved proof copy status in Australia. YA, & archaeology, mostly 15, 16 year olds, and no phones, not even a modest little Nokia. Historical fiction ?
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Weather not improving. This has been the coldest, snowiest winter for my province in decades with more to come, if we can believe it. Canadian groundhog says early spring, American groundhog says 6 more weeks of winter. Not even the animals can agree!
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