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It's Crap! Should I finish???

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SailorYue:
heh, i came across the first fanfic i ever wrote the other day. IT is pure crap. i hate how bad my writing was back then. but as much as i hate it, ill never throw it away because it's the first recreational story i ever wrote.

blgarver:
I'm plowing through the end, guys.  I'm so close it would be dumb to not finish.  I'm within 3 chapters of finishing.  If I was ten chapters, I might just stop and let it rest, and comb through it and pinpoint the wrong turns and start over.  But I'm a week's worth of writing from finishing it.  It's salvagable.  This is basically the fleshing out/outline.  I know the story now, I know what I want the characters to be (and more importantly, what I want them NOT to be), and I can nail the plot down to a handful of major points.  So this whole thing was good to drag the story out of me.  Considering it was only supposed to be a one page romp just to write something when I was bored at the office one day.  I'm pretty happy with what has grown from it.

meg_evonne:

--- Quote from: SailorYue on September 19, 2008, 11:07:43 PM ---heh, i came across the first fanfic i ever wrote the other day. IT is pure crap. i hate how bad my writing was back then. but as much as i hate it, ill never throw it away because it's the first recreational story i ever wrote.

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The question is, 'what did you learn by finishing it that you applied to your next one?'  :-)

SailorYue:
Well my second story sucked too. And its cuz i was making fun of the anime dub. My first saga is my first decent story. Thats why these 2 orange folders are my most priyed possesions. Realy the onlything BAD about them is i used the dubs character names. Once i publish them on FF.net i plan to use theyr real names.

SailorYue:
I think i learned to think thru my stories. Like let the plot play out in my head. If i cant end it i drop it. Unfortunately i suffer from attacks from my muse. Sometimes shed give me a doyen ideas at once and i end up with a notebook with stories that have starts but no bodys or ends.

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