I was reviewing a thread (that admittedly went bad as it went further on, but had some really awesome information in the beginning) about when an agent finds your blog with bad writing on it/fan fiction. Now maybe some of you went back to the very first posts (I really hope you didn't) but there are some awful short snippets from when I was part of a website called 750words.com. The site's idea was to write three pages (approx. 750 words) every day to train yourself to write. That's great...but it didn't work for me personally. All my creative energy was drained into forcing myself to write 750 words so I could stop writing. The starts were awful, probably made only a little sense. And I, in all my mistaken glory, posted them here.
The point of the original thread is that if you wouldn't submit writing to someone, then you shouldn't post it on your blog for readers (or no readers, because at the time I had none lol). So now I'm sitting here thinking about those few abandoned posts. Is it worth going back and deleting them? Will an agent really care? Should I be safe anyway?
More things to ponder...
-Jessie
If you're really that worried about them, deleting them might be a good option. It doesn't hurt to be cautious.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I doubt most people surfing a blog will ever look at posts more than a few weeks old, especially if your blog has been running for months/years. I know I never do.
That's what I was thinking. I really don't like any of the writing...I'll probably end up deleting them just because of that rather than being scared an agent will read it. Like you said, most people wouldn't go all the way back.
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