Back in my senior year of high school I had to do a senior project and was coming up short with ideas. One friend of mine was writing a novel. I didn't feel like I could carry on a continuous body of work in that way, so I decided to compile a small book's worth of poems and short stories. My parents were supportive and enthusiastic and I was lucky enough that they offered to self-publish it.
Now, I know that it's a pretty shit book. Most importantly, I know that age is CERTAINLY NOT irrelevant. I wrote some really vapid, self-obsessed and sometimes overly anti-religious stuff in there.
Because I was young, I do have pride in some of the works I published - I can feel like they were okay, considering.
Anyway, just wanted to share if anyone feels like my old writing does speak to them. :))
- Ezra