I wrote this?

[denorios]

Do you ever go back and read some of your old fic? It's quite a strange feeling reading fic that's three or four or five years old. Some of it is dreadful tosh, of course, but others, I go back and read and think, 'hey, this isn't half bad

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[stageira]

I try to avoid reading mine at all costs, ergh.

But I did re-read your Pike fic yesterday as well.

Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike! *sigh*

[denorios]

You did? Haha, which one?

[stageira]

I always enjoy "Actions speak louder than words" so so much!

Not only cause of the romantic element, but because Bones makes me laugh and I can totally see the slug having such a side-effect after a point, which was what Nero wanted really.

[denorios]

Aww, bless you. You know, the weird thing about that fic is that it's the most unlike my usual style. I normally go for introspective mood pieces - I don't tend to bring the funny and there's very little dialogue. So it's an aberration for me!

[hawkmoth]

Try going back to read stuff you wrote thirty-something years ago...

(Although my first efforts at fan writing weren't fiction. TOS was my gateway into fandom, but my first actual stories were Star Wars-based.)

[denorios]

Gosh, that must be weird! I try and avoid some of my really old fic, mainly because it's so bad. I think my first hesitant attempts were for Buffy and The X-Files, and they're so overwrought and purple!

[hawkmoth]

I'm mostly proud of my really old stuff, but some of it was highly influenced by the style of fanwriting that was popular at the time (there was a lot of h/c being written in the 80s!).

What's really weird? Knowing I own zines that are older than a lot of the people I encounter in on-line fandom! (Oh yeah, and also knowing I'm old enough to be their parent...)

[isis_uf]

I went through exactly this over the weekend. I finally got around to actually posting fics on my AO3 account and I went over a lot of older stuff, hemming and hawing over what was too embarrassing to repost. I have this rule for myself that I never take down a fic after I post it (partly because there's little more annoying than trying to find a fic and realizing its been deleted by the author but mostly because everything I've written is something I'm proud of on some level - even the horrible stuff), but that doesn't mean I want to repost it somewhere! In the end, I went as far back as 2004 and ignored everything before that. The further back I go, the worse the navel-gazing and Mary-sue-rific cliches.

[huntersglenn]

I'm in the process of putting some of my old fics up on AO3, and I did find myself shuddering and laughing at things I'd written back in 1998 and 1999. Not so much the writing itself, but the tone of the writing, and even some of the overall plot things, such as the main character coming across as being too good of a person. And then I remember that the character from that particular show, was , at that time, more of a gentlemanly person, and some considered him to be too nice - I guess that within that context, it still works, but since the show is no longer on the air, and was on for a long time without this character, then I'm not so sure any new or younger readers will see that.

But, it is fun to read over the old stories and compare them with how I write now (grin).

[sparklephant]

i have the opposite problem where i think everything i used to write is HILARIOUS but no one else does? whatever, Gary Neville's Adventures at Daycare is my magnum opus and no one will convince me otherwise :P