Jserity
Hello. It has been a long time, and I am here for the same story again. "Depth", the first story that I published on this app, holds a very special place in my heart. It is where I wrote with no mental complications, as well as finished it with relief. It has been almost 10 years since I started writing but this story is still the only one I got to complete. I do not know if I should find that funny or worrying, but now that I have come to an age where I feel like correcting my mistakes will not baffle me in the long run, I wanna get back to this story again. Throughout the years since I finished "Depth", I have been learning more about the usage of letters, and so I have also been revising the technicalities of this story's contents yet halts whenever motivation loses from within. It has become a backlog that I even stopped thinking about getting back. But recently, this is the piece that I run to whenever I want to see how I wrote before, and this expectedly dissatisfied me. Thus, I am now keen to revise "Depth", not only in its technicalities (grammars, punctuations, etc.), but also in the characterization of the people—justifying the emotions, empathy, and actions of the characters, just in the sense that is right. However, I promise that this will not change the plot at all.
Jserity
This kind of revision sort of saddens me, because at the back of my mind, I wanted to keep it as to how it has been because this was the proof of my innocence, of the whole passion and heart into making the characters and the story itself. It is also the reflection of my young self fulfilling one of her dreams. But, doesn't this kind of sentiment ignore my hunger for improvement? I want to work on something that I can be proud of as time passes, and that with the correct mind and spirit. My innocence and whole passion the moment I wrote this story will forever remain as the heart of this author in her writing journey, and it makes me smile more that my current improvement is along this. I am writing this for myself, to keep reminding me that I have a story to revise (lol), and that throughout doing so, I can get a hold of my initial spirit in writing and manifest it to my current pieces, bringing the little Jserity to the present me. :)
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