onthighsbelongtotaemin replied to your post “Random question to my fic writing friends:”
or you could just delete it, hide it in a random file, & pretend it never happened. "this is not the fic you're looking for".
Hahahaha! There’s actually one fic I’ve thought of doing that with cause I feel like it isn’t my best. But I have this stupid rule about being honest about my growth as a writer so... *grumble grumble*
onthighsbelongtotaemin replied to your post “Random question to my fic writing friends:”
i read it anyways. the very first thing i ever wrote is a good concept horribly written & i do my best to forget about it but if i don't acknowledge it it gets worse in my head. ironically, there are at least two fics that i usually hate in my head but when i read them they're not that bad, & i get reasonably frequent asks about one of them. so i don't know if "exposure" might help you or not but it's somewhat beneficial to me.
I did get through reading it and editing it for ao3 but it wasn’t the easiest sigh... I do think you’re right about exposure helping, this was my SBB from last summer and you and @moshiznik are basically the only people that gave me feedback on that at all so getting it out there for more people to see might help! <3 But yeah I am fighting that feeling that it’s worse than it really is and I wish I knew how to kill that feeling orz
taeontae replied to your post “Random question to my fic writing friends:”
Some of mine make me cringe so bad! I don't know if this is the kind of hurt you meant but it does cause me pain lol
I think we all have one of those fics as writers! But hopefully I (we!) keep getting better with time!
~~I have been trying to think of a way to describe this feeling of ‘hurt’ since last night and the best I can come up with is that this fic is so personal and took so much of me in writing it that when I opened it for the first time since last summer it was this feeling of seeing an ex (ex-bf, ex-friend, whatever) and being hit with the all the mixed emotions that brings up. Like remembering the good and then being slapped with reality of a painful breakup. Does that make any sense at all??? I have no idea anymore... *sigh*