Revisiting a few old thoughts.

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Have you ever taken something that you worked on very early in your writing journey and made it into a complete work later? Or do you plan to?

Strangely, I blogged about this subject last Thursday.

I’ve been writing seriously since 2011, but my mind had been filled with stories for a lot longer than that. Before I started writing Freefall, I never bothered much with any of them. They were just flights of fancy, places where my mind would wander in idle moments.

At school, I’d been told by my teachers that I couldn’t write fiction. So I never bothered. I just wrote what I had to in an official capacity, and found that hard enough. Besides, there was a life to be lived. Real-life challenges and problems had to come first.

It’s only now, with retirement and time on my hands, that I’ve bothered to try and make sense of all the ideas in my head.

That’s all because I’ve finally reached the age where I’m past caring what people think about my writing. And everyone who told me I couldn’t write is long gone, so they can’t remind me about how impossible they always said it was.

Back to the topic.

I have a large number of part-finished projects, some of them going back years. All of them have been shuffled further down the queue as new, shinier things have turned up. I suspect that I’ve forgotten so many more ideas than I’ve remembered.

As well as new ideas, there have been sequels that I’ve never bothered to write. When people show no interest in the first part, it hardly seems worth the effort to write more.

There are several of my earlier novels that I’d like to rewrite. I think I could make them better now that I’ve developed more as a writer.

And I have short stories that, although they’ve ended satisfactorily, have such a tantalising premise that I can see that there’s so much more to them.

There’s definitely room for me to restart all the things I’ve never completed. All I need is the will and the inspiration.

I’d love to think that I had time to get everything done, but I suspect that it’s not going to be the case.

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