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Okay, this cheered me up a lot
I'm actually feeling a lot better than I was when I wrote my last post. *hugs f'list* But ... wow ... there's something kind of heady about looking over my old work and realizing how far I've come as a writer. Pursuant to a conversation with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xparrot, I was looking through some of my really old unfinished fanfics, wondering if there was anything in there that I might consider moving out of the WIP pile. If I do finish any of these, though, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than just filling in the missing scenes -- I'm looking at the clunky prose, the randomly switching character names and verb tenses, the painful dialogue, and boggling. No wonder I never managed to publish anything back then. XD (What I'm re-reading right now is from early 2002, an old Invisible Man h/c story that I never finished.) I suppose I'd already realized that, in theory, I must be improving, but it's so incremental that it's really not noticeable -- until you put this story side-by-side with the ones I'm writing now, and, wow. The difference in the smoothness and readability of the prose is just amazing.
xparrot, I was looking through some of my really old unfinished fanfics, wondering if there was anything in there that I might consider moving out of the WIP pile. If I do finish any of these, though, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than just filling in the missing scenes -- I'm looking at the clunky prose, the randomly switching character names and verb tenses, the painful dialogue, and boggling. No wonder I never managed to publish anything back then. XD (What I'm re-reading right now is from early 2002, an old Invisible Man h/c story that I never finished.) I suppose I'd already realized that, in theory, I must be improving, but it's so incremental that it's really not noticeable -- until you put this story side-by-side with the ones I'm writing now, and, wow. The difference in the smoothness and readability of the prose is just amazing.