It's kind of a love-hate thing

I love/hate it when you look at something you wrote a little while back, something that at the time you thought was trite/contrived/overall terrible, and now you realize "holy shit, that's actually really good."

Having that moment today with the re-starts I wrote for The Hierophant. :p

But it's all good! It's cemented a few things I was on the fence about before:

-I am doing a total re-write
-it is going to be in third person, present
-I'm re-defining the mythology of the world so that it's a bit more cohesive
-I'm getting rid of a lot of junk that was ultimately unnecessary to have in there
-It's becoming more of the epic modern fantasy that I want it to be rather than the spiteful "yeah anyone can write a self-indulgent teenage fantasy S. Meyer, but I can do it better, with a heroine who isn't a terrible, useless piece of bland that needs a man to believe she's worth anything!"

So, it's all shaping up quite nicely. Just thought I'd share ;)

Oh, also, TPaL is still being read by the editors in NY. I have mixed feelings about it, given my gung-ho feelings towards self publishing these days. I definitely don't not want to be traditionally published, but I'm not going to do it if they tell me can't self publish other things in the meantime, especially if it's work that they don't want to publish.

Lol not like I expect what's happening in NY to really result in an offer of anything, but it would be "totes" ironic, also the universe saying "i told you so" about having to be really okay with it not happening before it can happen :p