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Discussion: old fic. Do you ever read your old fic? How do you feel about it?
I've recently been putting my old fics up on AO3 and I found several that although they were short (drabbles, ficlets) they could be tidied up and made into longer fics, once I figure out where I was going with the idea in the first place. Unless I'm doing a back up/import somewhere I tend not to read my old fic too often and the only time I do it is to see if a new idea seems familiar, then I have to find out if it is something that I've already written.
With reading my old fics again I don't feel too embarrassed by them, there's nothing too cringeworthy, and I also feel like I've improved over the years although I find that silly little mistakes like repetition, missing letters, stray commas and full stops still occur even though I'm better at spotting those. One of these days I may even venture back into some of the fandom(s) that I've been away from for a while.
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Today I
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wrote
3 (75.0%)
edited
0 (0.0%)
sent to beta
0 (0.0%)
posted
1 (25.0%)
researched
0 (0.0%)
planned
0 (0.0%)
had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)
dealt with life
1 (25.0%)
My progress is
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Mean: 4.00 Median: 4 Std. Dev 2.24
Mean: 4.00 Median: 4 Std. Dev 2.24
| ugh 1 | 1 (25.0%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 3 | 1 (25.0%) | |
| 4 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 5 | 1 (25.0%) | |
| 6 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 7 | 1 (25.0%) | |
| 8 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| brilliant 10 | 0 (0.0%) |
Discussion: old fic. Do you ever read your old fic? How do you feel about it?
I've recently been putting my old fics up on AO3 and I found several that although they were short (drabbles, ficlets) they could be tidied up and made into longer fics, once I figure out where I was going with the idea in the first place. Unless I'm doing a back up/import somewhere I tend not to read my old fic too often and the only time I do it is to see if a new idea seems familiar, then I have to find out if it is something that I've already written.
With reading my old fics again I don't feel too embarrassed by them, there's nothing too cringeworthy, and I also feel like I've improved over the years although I find that silly little mistakes like repetition, missing letters, stray commas and full stops still occur even though I'm better at spotting those. One of these days I may even venture back into some of the fandom(s) that I've been away from for a while.
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