An interesting thing about going over new work, even things that you are quite proud of in a way, is you realise how much you've improved in certain ways.
Like some of Lock is a real pleasure to read and it's always been the proudest of the plays I've written, but for example I realise how much better I've got a structuring work, foreshadowing, making the dialogue flow more freely and naturally, not getting bogged down and verbose, getting to the point in fewer words where need be or deliberately taking the long way round to build suspense, making the characters motivations deeper - giving them each their own individual voice that are distinct from those of the others!
This is something that I recommend everyone do from time to time! Go over your old work and see what ways you'd do it differently if you were writing it now. If you can't think of anything new to write, rewrite something old and make it better :-)
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