A few Thoughts on Revising Fics
Apr. 7th, 2009 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI've written a few pages of my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plot_wout_porn story. It feels good to have started it.
I probably should have mentioned a while back, too, that I've finished uploading all my stories that can no longer be accessed on my website onto my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
glassdarklyuk LJ. So if you go to Distorting Mirrors and the story you want to read has been taken down, you can ask to be friended to my other LJ if you're not already. Hmm, suppose this means I have to put Coming of Age and Age of Unreason on a separate filter?
While I was doing the crossover, I re-read some of my old stories. Some of them were better than I expected (mostly the very early ones), while some of them - from what I suppose I should call my 'middle period' were much worse. At some point, I seem to have become infected with the Evil Filler Virus, and there are paragraphs and paragraphs of unnecessary exposition. I thought of revising all the stories but then decided that would be silly (plus take forever). Best to leave them as they stand, and hopefully readers will look at the dates and see for themselves how I started off okay, got a lot worse and then (hopefully) got better again. And some things, I hope, got better in that 'middle period', even if the filler problem got worse.
However, I thought I would make a few exceptions, because some stories I was really proud of at the time and I want them to be the best they can be. Therefore, I picked two of my favourites, Brief Encounter and my magnum opus, Family Reunion, to be revised in light of What I Have Learned About Writing (however little it may be) since I first wrote them. I also plan to revise my Fanged Four story Revenge, because it's really not very good, and it's Fanged Four, so it ought to be.
What (if any) opinions do you have on revising old fics? Yes? No? Sometimes?
plot_wout_porn story. It feels good to have started it.I probably should have mentioned a while back, too, that I've finished uploading all my stories that can no longer be accessed on my website onto my
glassdarklyuk LJ. So if you go to Distorting Mirrors and the story you want to read has been taken down, you can ask to be friended to my other LJ if you're not already. Hmm, suppose this means I have to put Coming of Age and Age of Unreason on a separate filter? While I was doing the crossover, I re-read some of my old stories. Some of them were better than I expected (mostly the very early ones), while some of them - from what I suppose I should call my 'middle period' were much worse. At some point, I seem to have become infected with the Evil Filler Virus, and there are paragraphs and paragraphs of unnecessary exposition. I thought of revising all the stories but then decided that would be silly (plus take forever). Best to leave them as they stand, and hopefully readers will look at the dates and see for themselves how I started off okay, got a lot worse and then (hopefully) got better again. And some things, I hope, got better in that 'middle period', even if the filler problem got worse.
However, I thought I would make a few exceptions, because some stories I was really proud of at the time and I want them to be the best they can be. Therefore, I picked two of my favourites, Brief Encounter and my magnum opus, Family Reunion, to be revised in light of What I Have Learned About Writing (however little it may be) since I first wrote them. I also plan to revise my Fanged Four story Revenge, because it's really not very good, and it's Fanged Four, so it ought to be.
What (if any) opinions do you have on revising old fics? Yes? No? Sometimes?