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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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...
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