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[bubosquared]

I shouldn't re-read my own stories. This used to be the one story I was really really proud of and now I can't stop noticing all the misspellings, the punctuation and grammar errors, the horrible cliche's ...

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[zero3kid.livejournal.com]

I_fucking_hate_that...

The one story of mine that continually gets reviews, and *good ones* at that, sucks. It's the most horrible story I've ever written, the timeframe is all fucked up, it's one big steenking cliche...I'm not even gonna link to it, it's that bad.

But I don't want to take it down, because it seems to entertain uneducated sappy suckers...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I know. There's this original story of mine that gets the best feedback ever that I never really liked. Readers, I tells ya.

[rsadelle]

Until I started writing Metallica slash, the most feedback I'd ever received on one story was for a story that I almost didn't post because I didn't think it was that great. Everyone loved it. An X-Files fic rec site recced it. I still don't quite get it. It's sentimental, cliched songfic.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

That may be partially because the general public wants cliche'd, sentimental fic. They're not looking for experimental things, they're not looking for intense, they're looking for a fix of something that went/is wrong with the canon.

[rsadelle]

I just went to look at the story, and I cringed even just skimming it. I murdered the characterization. I Mary Sued everyone in it. It's overly sentimental. I gave Krycek a family to show that he's really a good guy. *sigh* This is why I don't need crit on my older stories; I can do it myself.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Why do you think none of the stories actually html'ed at my site are older than 2 years, except Chris [which was beta'ed]? I couldn't bear to see them every time I revamped the site.