Asakiyume mita

Both excellent additional things to do.

Is it my first novel if I also wrote one at 15 and submitted to a publisher (and got a rejection)? That novel--written on a typewriter--is in a lockbox in my living room.

... I guess it's my first finished novel since becoming an adult--well, second; technically, I finished Majestico's Pocket Circus before I finished this, though I started this first.

I do think it's quite possible this one isn't very good. I do hope I'll get better with time and practice. But... I guess I want to share this one, even though it's bad, or may be bad. I know, I know... then I'll have hideous journeyman prose out there for all the world to see... but if I do self publish it, let's face it: not that many people will see it. The people who read this blog, maybe, and maybe a couple others? Do you think it would actually hurt me? I mean, i guess someone--an agent or someone--might stumble upon it, read it, and think "she's not very good," but if then I had a better novel, at some point in the future, and submitted it, do you think they'd hold the bad prose of a previous novel against me?