Reading Old Fic
Sep. 21st, 2014 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingOn one hand, I'm like, I can't believe I wrote this.
On the other hand, I'm like, I can't believe I wrote this.
I am both impressed with my younger self and terribly embarrassed of her typos, stylistic errors, repetitiveness, and unconscious adherence to sexist genre conventions. Sheesh.
On the other hand, I'm like, I can't believe I wrote this.
I am both impressed with my younger self and terribly embarrassed of her typos, stylistic errors, repetitiveness, and unconscious adherence to sexist genre conventions. Sheesh.
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Date: 2014-10-05 11:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, I have some of that in my older work too, but I think the problem is that sometimes when an author gets to a certain fame level, his/her editor no longer challenges him/her to improve, and--especially with *isms, it can be difficult to point that out in a way that doesn't result in shouting.