This is my Insecure Writers Support Group post for February 2026. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month are: J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, & Sandra Cox! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you . 💻💻💻💻💻 February 4 question - Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? I wrote three novels before publishing any and debuted with the third. Then I followed that by writing and publishing WIP #4. (To clarify, WIPs 1 & 2 are paranormal romance; WIPs 3 & 4 are western historical romance.) The first two manuscripts got put on the back burner for several years before polishing them and publishing them under a different pen name. I had done several rounds of edits before setting them aside, and I still cringed when I went back to them--especially the first one. Side note: I've apologized repeatedly...