Wildly different? No, but often I’ll add to my original ideas and then after that the piece might take on a slightly different tone. Especially if I’ve accumulated some new experiences or gained another perspective.

But I think one of the reasons why it doesn’t go in a wildly different direction is because I tend to document things more or less in real time, with some exceptions of course. If you are talking about retrospective experiences then the you of today is going to write about them differently than if it was recent.