I wrote three novellas before I feel like I truly found my voice with writing. Forlorn, Blood in Fur and The Endurance Saga. All were written before I read Robert E. Howard, who changed my life as a writer forever. I was sort of seeing what stuck. While I can't say I'm 100% proud of them-they're part of who I am. I spent months upon months writing these stories.
My original thought was to unpublish them forever and hope people forgot them. As I went to do that, I began to feel nostalgia for my younger years.
I wrote Forlorn back when I was really into Game of Thrones. Back when I had the ambition to write an epic fantasy, but it turned out to be a novella. I remember how excited I was telling people of my first venture into fantasy.
I wrote Blood in Fur when I was really into the furry fandom and had an entire story to tell about it. That comes with its own set of memories.
The Endurance Saga was written after I finished the video game Mass Effect and I wanted to attempt my own version of it. I never wrote a sequel to it, but that initial book was something I still enjoy. Actually, I plan on writing a new Gunner story at some point. Sort of a re-visioning of his whole life.
So why wouldn't I want to preserve those memories? Why shouldn't I want people to visit my early work and see how far I've come? I hate when creators dismiss older works. I shouldn't follow in there footsteps.
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