Write short story

>write short story
>read it 3 days later and cringe at myself

does this happen for anyone?

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>3 days later
Bro, you're not supposed to look at it for 2 years, then cringe, followed up by editing; place it back in the bottom of the tub where the remainder of your family photos are stored in the attic. Finally, pick it back up a few days later, and think "hey, that's not so bad". Then, throw it away.
That's the writing process.

Yeah it happens with everyone that I know who writes. The trick is to develop tolerance little by little and try to see it more objectively. Even if the overall story doesn’t make sense yet there will be bits you can work with, expand, or reuse

If only you'd do that with your posts.

I do it almost instantly, especially when writing the female characters

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never

>At 914 manuscript pages, Joyce considered the book about half-finished, having completed 25 of its 63 intended chapters. In September 1907, however, he abandoned this work, and began a complete revision of the text and its structure, producing what became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
>In 1911 Joyce flew into a fit of rage over the continued refusals by publishers to print Dubliners and threw the manuscript of Portrait into the fire. It was saved by a "family fire brigade" including his sister Eileen.

Cringing at what you did is a sign of huge insecurity and generally being a weak immature beta male. You're clearly aren't ready to write, try working on yourself first.

Can't say I relate. I don't write fiction, but I do write posts. Sometimes I go to the Yea Forums archive and dig up my old bangers and laugh my ass off. Usually they're even better than I remember.

As a drawfag, I can see my errors quicker due to it being visual. In writing it can sometimes not be as obvious, but it's normal and means you have potential to improve your mistakes.

You'll never improve yourself if you think you're already at the top, user. And categorizing yourself and others binds improvement even more so.

>stumble across rough poetry scribbling in a book from years ago
>no memory of writing it
>actually pretty compelling

>tells people they are insecure
>is on Yea Forums and not out with friends

why user?

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just take away reason and accountability

nah I read all of my long-winded shitposts from Yea Forums using the archive all the time. I look back to 2015 when I was shitting up this board and boy do I still get some keks by the stuff I came up with. Sometimes, when I shitpost, I feel like I'm possessed.

You didn't write it

Not usually, whenever I write something it's usually pretty interesting. Even the bad ones usually have a concept I like and rework

Fucking this, jesus

I cringe after every sentence. then I rewrite. and rewrite and rewrite until I no longer cringe

i cringe at every vague impulse that exists in me non-verbally until by stretching my mind around i like one of them and then a line or stanza, sometimes an entire poem at once, of poetry comes out, through process inscrutable to me, which I almost never alter after. Very rarely ill edit a poem but it's more like making it into a new poem.

I never stop liking these poems, even the ones I wrote 9 years ago I still like, because I never wrote anything that didn't come from that feeling of 'this is right' that somehow becomes words. The poems did though become a lot more technically sophisticated over time.

The exception is drunk poems where im too wasted to follow this practice properly, a lot of those are dumb.