I wrote my first fic when I was 14 (I'm now 28). I deleted every one of them when I went off to college (destroying evidence, perhaps?). I once ran across a piece on an errant disk (on a floppy!) and I began twitching.
It was bad. Really bad. Like the kind that I now click away from as fast as possible.
I'm not so sure I'm that great now, but I like my more recent fic (but I've become slightly twitchy about my first few S/J fics written in 2008). I contemplated pulling them, but someone on GW (that I like) said that having those older stories around can be helpful for newer writers to see how a writer progresses and grows.
So I keep them around. Maybe there's some 14 year old out there that's just starting off writing and maybe they're fic is major sucky, but even if I'm not reading it, at least they're writing and if they get discouraged then they see that everyone at some point has some major suck periods.
(I also hope to write an original novel or something and fic is so helpful for letting me see what I don't do well).
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It was bad. Really bad. Like the kind that I now click away from as fast as possible.
I'm not so sure I'm that great now, but I like my more recent fic (but I've become slightly twitchy about my first few S/J fics written in 2008). I contemplated pulling them, but someone on GW (that I like) said that having those older stories around can be helpful for newer writers to see how a writer progresses and grows.
So I keep them around. Maybe there's some 14 year old out there that's just starting off writing and maybe they're fic is major sucky, but even if I'm not reading it, at least they're writing and if they get discouraged then they see that everyone at some point has some major suck periods.
(I also hope to write an original novel or something and fic is so helpful for letting me see what I don't do well).
:: confetti :: I like annerbhp fic!