"To publish or not to publish, that is the question!" (in Hamlet's voice😋😋)
Yes, I do have several unpublished texts too.
Some remain unpublished because I believe they're not ready yet; the time to birth them has not yet come.
Others, I deem not good enough. They need lots of editing and may be irredeemable in the end—just typical writer's moments, as you say.
Some pieces are too raw and vulnerable, and I fear they reveal too much of my mind and can make others uneasy and fear it—my mind, that is, and maybe me too, who came up with it.
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Personally, I'm comfortable with a certain level of vulnerability embedded in my writing. If that threshold is surpassed, I either preserve the piece as a personal treasure that I can (maybe) post in the future, or if the message is important for the present, I edit out the most vulnerable parts and replace them with less vulnerable statements, and then I post it, hoping it's not missing anything and hasn't lost its essence.
P. S I will release one of my drafts—an essay on Hamlet, a character and title of a Shakespeare book, mentioned in my opening note.
Even though it feels like the wrong timing, I hope you guys look out for it and cheer me on.