Tried to Forget My Own Work (Did Not Work)

[fifthpaw]

So I used Samsung's Unspoil Me to forget a novel I wrote so I can review it as unbiased as I can. I still remember everything that happens in my novel.

[dawgofdawgness]

His voice is putting me to sleep

[VibrantFox]

I always thought that when it came to that sort of stuff it depends on how fluid the mind is or how susceptible a person is to being hypnotized

[DiegoPalacios]

When you think about: "i must forget x thing" just makes it easier to remember, because the mere sugestion of forgeting something reminds you of that thing.

The brain forgets about a thing when it stops caring about it due to irrelevance, lack of emotional investment and lack of use.

If you want an unbiased review of your own work, maybe you should get someone of trust and who knows how to give a coherent review to review it.

[Tes]

I tried it just now and yeah it didn't work for me either, but maybe it's cause I never expected it to work in the first place? Or maybe it's because the tv show I chose has been so ingrained in my life and mind that it'd take more than 23 minutes of relaxation and talking for me to forget it...

[melindemari]

One can never forget everything, what you can do is take some time off form your work, set it aside, start something else and after 3 moths pick it up and re-read it, make your 'edits' or what not to improve it then. One always improves ones own writing if takes a step back. You can't honestly ever give yourself an unbiased feedback, you either like what you wrote or didn't and even if you liked it' then there just two more branches on both those options - either you improve/re-write/edit or you don't.

I took time off from writing my main novels and started re-writing The Divide United; 5 chapters turned into 12... And It has improved quite a bit from the original rough writings I had of it in an old journal. I've since stepped back again... Don't know why since still was on a roll, but got distracted (I guess) b other ideas that were irrelevant with The Divide United so started penning those down just so that it doesn't influence The Divide United (That is in a possibly negative way)

So yeah... I can still recall my very first poem I ever wrote for English Grade 6 (that's back in 2006) it was a short and childish poem and it basically went as such:

"Who goes there?
Who creeps at night?

Is it the black cat
that watches over dusk?
Is it the black rose
glimmering in the midnight moon?
is it the black butterfly
keeper of dawn?

Who goes there?
Who creeps at night?

OR something like that; think the words are definitely different but that was the idea of the poem.
I don't even have the written piece anymore, think it might be up on fictionpress though... Can't remember if deleted it from there yet or not...