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Revisiting the past

© Regina Avalos

Revisiting the past. During the time of your writing life, the way that you write will change and evolve. Hopefully improve with each year that passes. You'll change what you write as well as how. Some days you will think about something you wrote and wonder if you can try writing something like that again. However, maybe you write something totally different now. Maybe you are thinking about writing romance and you have been writing science fiction. How do you find a way to get back to what you wrote before?

It isn't easy, and you need to go into it knowing that no matter what you do it will not be the same. The way you write is different now. If you go back and try writing romance, you will probably will succeed. However, the writing will be different, possibly better, but you will not repeat what you wrote before. As you grow as a writer, your style will change. How you wrote five years ago or even a year ago is different than how you write today.

This isn't a bad thing. Growing is what we all do in everything we do. Each day we learn something new. Some new way of writing or a little trick that we didn't know before. With each thing we learn, our style of writing changes. We want this to happen. We want our writing to change and improve and when we do decide to revisit types of writing we wrote before it will show an improvement in how we wrote before. Just have to keep remembering that in writing as in life growth and change is good.

This market and contest of the month are:

Market of the month
Website: Fantasy and Science Fiction
Address: Gordon Van Gelder, Fantasy & Science Fiction, P.O. Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Payment: 5 to 8 cents a word
Contact: No electronic or simultaneous submissions. Read magazine first. Send requests for sample mag or story submissions to the address above.

Contest of the month
HAROLD G. HENDERSON AWARDS FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED HAIKU
Website: Contest Guidelines
Mail entry to: HAROLD G. HENDERSON AWARDS FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED HAIKU Stanford M. Forrester 2 Fernwood Street Wethersfield CT 06109
Entry fee: One dollar per haiku entered.
Prizes: First Prize, $100; Second Prize, $75; Third Prize, $50. Winning haiku will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA Web site.

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