Running and screaming down memory lane
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoIn the interest of updating my website (don't all run to see, I didn't) and because I recently read some Gundam Wing fic that I enjoyed, I've been slowly going through my fanfic folder to see what can be put up from my days in the fandom.
You know what you should never do? You should never, ever go back and read through fanfic that is over 10 years old. Most of the ideas are solid (some not so much), but some of this writing is terrible. I want to go back and yell at my younger self. Specifically, I want to go back and yell at my younger self about beginning sentences with contractions. DO NOT DO IT EVERY OTHER SENTENCE.
Part of me wants to take all the Gundam Wing stuff, hide it, and hope no one else remembers it. I'm not going to though. It will get put up on my website (with possible the exception of the freaking song fic I wrote. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick). I made a promise to myself that no matter how old or how bad it was, if I posted it once and got feedback I need to post it again. Because someone, somewhere probably remembers reading it and I don't want them to have to spend hours on Google or The Wayback Machine desperately hoping to stumble across an archived copy.
Yes, that is the voice of experience talking. Why do you ask?
Must resist urge to edit for all content and not just typos/grammar mistakes. At least I have no problems with editing old stuff that I didn't finish and therefore didn't put up. It really needed it. I'm not sure I could ever finish it because of the style changes between then and now. Surely it would be awkward and obvious.
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I still really like the stories I wrote where the Gundams from Gundam Wing all have spirits and they are all dragons with distinct personalities. No, I don't care how cheesy it is.
You know what you should never do? You should never, ever go back and read through fanfic that is over 10 years old. Most of the ideas are solid (some not so much), but some of this writing is terrible. I want to go back and yell at my younger self. Specifically, I want to go back and yell at my younger self about beginning sentences with contractions. DO NOT DO IT EVERY OTHER SENTENCE.
Part of me wants to take all the Gundam Wing stuff, hide it, and hope no one else remembers it. I'm not going to though. It will get put up on my website (with possible the exception of the freaking song fic I wrote. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick). I made a promise to myself that no matter how old or how bad it was, if I posted it once and got feedback I need to post it again. Because someone, somewhere probably remembers reading it and I don't want them to have to spend hours on Google or The Wayback Machine desperately hoping to stumble across an archived copy.
Yes, that is the voice of experience talking. Why do you ask?
Must resist urge to edit for all content and not just typos/grammar mistakes. At least I have no problems with editing old stuff that I didn't finish and therefore didn't put up. It really needed it. I'm not sure I could ever finish it because of the style changes between then and now. Surely it would be awkward and obvious.
...
I still really like the stories I wrote where the Gundams from Gundam Wing all have spirits and they are all dragons with distinct personalities. No, I don't care how cheesy it is.
