The same thing goes for writers, actors, and musicians. A lot of creators don't like to be reminded of their early works. "Oh, god, I was so YOUNG when I did that!" How many animators and cartoonists -- Bob Clampett, Walt Disney, Milton Caniff -- have had their high-school work unearthed and put on the Internet? Practically all of the music of Paul Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") is lost today because he feared that he would be embarrassed by it as he grew more skilled, and he refused to let it be published. Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolfe mysteries during his retirement, for decades would not tell what he had written during his youth because he considered it so bad. (A 1914 pulp magazine thriller by him, "Under the Andes", was later rediscovered; yeah, it's pretty bad.) Robert A. Heinlein's first 1930s s-f novel, which he had thought all the manuscripts of had been destroyed, was published after his death. Most amateurs used to be protected from their adolescent first efforts by their inability to have them professionally published; today, with online websites and blogs, that is no longer true.
The same thing goes for writers, actors, and musicians. A lot of creators don't like to be reminded of their early works. "Oh, god, I was so YOUNG when I did that!" How many animators and cartoonists -- Bob Clampett, Walt Disney, Milton Caniff -- have had their high-school work unearthed and put on the Internet? Practically all of the music of Paul Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") is lost today because he feared that he would be embarrassed by it as he grew more skilled, and he refused to let it be published. Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolfe mysteries during his retirement, for decades would not tell what he had written during his youth because he considered it so bad. (A 1914 pulp magazine thriller by him, "Under the Andes", was later rediscovered; yeah, it's pretty bad.) Robert A. Heinlein's first 1930s s-f novel, which he had thought all the manuscripts of had been destroyed, was published after his death. Most amateurs used to be protected from their adolescent first efforts by their inability to have them professionally published; today, with online websites and blogs, that is no longer true.
Right here on Flayrah, I wrote a review of Sofawolf Press' "Hot Dish" vol. 1 that got over 100 comments, and caused me to change my opinion of furry authors' pseudonyms. https://www.flayrah.com/4671/review-hot-dish-vol-1-edited-alopex
Fred Patten