anavalentina:

Rereading old writings you devised and published based on a confidence that it’d be informative or entertaining or edifying for an audience. Some of these things are eternally google-able, which is horrifying. I really fancified myself a clever cat, and it shows. Yeeeeeuck.

Yep. All too true. Every writer goes through this.

That’s the gig. Just like Montgomery said in the original Fame (Parker, 1980) said, “A pie in the face comes with the job.”

Sometimes we have no choice but to throw pie at ourselves.