Day to Day happenings in my life

Getting better? 308 words. Rated E

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Prompt 21. When did you last go re-read items you wrote over two years ago? Go read one now and tell us about what you thought of your writing from back then as compared to now.

I’ve been inundated lately with reviews of really old stories, forcing me to revisit and reread. Honestly I’d forgotten I’d written many of them and as I read I’m forced to edit as I can’t bear to leave in such glaringly, badly written sentences.
I suppose in a way it’s a comfort to see actual improvement in writing style however embarrassing that may be.
This is my fourth year at WdC and before I joined the community here I belonged to a local writing group. I stayed until I just knew I’d outgrown that group. I moved to another more prodigious group in the area called the Katherine Suzanna Pritchard writing Centre. This is a retreat too, where people from all over Australia come to stay.
Here I joined an all women’s group. I felt out of my depth for the first year as many of the writers had been published. Not self published but with the Fremantle Press publishing group which publishes world wide. However they gave me confidence to keep on writing my short stories. We publish an annual anthology and at last year’s book launch I was invited to read one of my stories to the assembled audience. It was well received and was one more step towards self acceptance. I’m no longer ashamed to say “I’m a writer,” when asked.
The group have tried to get me to collate a book of short stories and self publish but it’s not the reason I write. I’m probably quite lazy too as I know the energy it takes to self publish and self promote. I simply can’t be bothered as I get my pleasure from the writing itself.
After joining WdC I have had great feedback as well as criticism. That’s is actually fine by me. It’s the only way to improve and to keep improving.