Quote by rolandlytle
I have to say, this is an interesting thread. I enjoyed reading everyone's answers.
I have not posted a story I did not like. I have worked on a couple of dozen things that never panned out, but I would not post them. Maybe someday I might think of a way to make them worthwhile.
I am super critical of my own writing. I keep changing it again and again trying to get it just right, but at some point I have to stop when I'm not making helpful changes. It is common for me to do 5-10 rewrites of a piece before I submit it.
Even then I still notice every single little bit that I feel is not just right. A word grouping, phasing, or word choice that I feel could be better. Organizing the story's flow and pace, especially in my Sci-Fi stories.
I often find it difficult to go back and read some of my work because I see the possible potential I did not quite reach.
I think my stories are good and a few very good, but I have not written the story yet that everything fell into place. A story that people read and go WOW. I may never, but I think I can if I keep getting better.
The people on Stories Space have made me such a much better writer with their advise and examples. I look at my earliest few stories compared to what I do now, and I can only thank all my friends for their help and support.

Quote by authorised1960
I guess, like many of us here, I have quite a portfolio of accumulated works. I am not vain enough to imagine that everything I write is brilliant or even of any particular literary merit. However, I have written pieces that I am proud of, that I enjoyed writing and that please me still after some mental, emotional and chronological distance between composition and contemplation.

There are pieces, too, that annoy and disappoint, but which I 'let stand' as a reminder to myself that even after all this time I can (and do) still get it wrong.

I do have my favourites, items I have written that please me as stories/poems, for various reasons: plot, character/s, emotional impact, humour or whatever. In all honesty, of my entire body of work, they are few in number. That's not to say I dislike the other stuff, far from it. It's more like having favourite children from my brood of items: I prefer some to others!

I would have listed the works I like that I've submitted to SS, but I'm sure someone would have seen it as an attempt to promote myself (something I have unfairly been accused of elsewehere) or stroke my ego or somesuch thing, so I'll refrain.

I will be interested to read what you guys have to say about your work.