Do you ever update old blog posts? I just did. I recently wrote a
couple posts and referred back to books I read many years ago,
1984 and
The Queen of the Damned. I cleaned up the posts to match the ones I write now. I started
The Eye of Loni's Storm a long, long time ago. 8 1/2 years ago! Back then, I was unfamiliar with blogging and didn't have a personal blogging style. The posts were much shorter. I would spew out my thoughts after finishing a book or watching a movie, throw up a picture, then hit "publish". That was it. As I looked back, I saw the posts and found them too messy. Am I going to go back and rework all the posts from back then? No. I think just the ones I direct readers too. There are too many. I don't rewrite them either. If I wrote five sentences, then that's what it will continue have. It is only the formatting I change. I wonder, though, if I should leave these old posts alone. Are they better as they were? More original? I'm not changing the content at all, just a bit of the presentation.
If I spot a proofreading error while reading an old review, I'll adjust the spelling or grammar or whatever the case may be. I also add new labels to old books if I can do it easily enough (like adding a Scotland label to some books labels Britain), through dashboard. There some reviews that are embarrassing now because they express views I no longer hold, but modifying them stinks to me of Soviet-style erasure and tampering of history, so I don't. My mistakes are part of my growth, I figure.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way. Adding labels or fixing a spelling mistake feels fine. But looking back at certain posts, I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote that. I never change them though. You're right, it is part of growth.
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