Sell The Cottage And Bugger The House.
Dec. 2nd, 2007 10:13 pmI was almost too embarrassed to post this, but then I thought that it could have interesting (or at least entertaining) results if it actually became a meme, so. I HOPE SOME OF YOU REPOST THIS SO THAT I AM NOT ALONE IN MY HUMILIATION.
Most fanfiction writers will know the feeling: you look back at a fic you were quite proud of three or four years ago and think, with a sense of horror, 'I can't believe I ever thought this was good.' So you rip it down from wherever it was archived and hide in appalled shame.
It is time for those fics we wish we could forget to come crawling back out of the depths.
Take an extract from the earliest-written (or the worst, if you're feeling particularly brave) of the fics you once wiped from the face of the Internet but still have lurking somewhere on your hard drive. Post it to your journal. Cringe.
This must have been written when - oh, look, I'm verbally distancing myself from it. I must have written this at some point in the year 2000, so I would have been about twelve. It is a Harry Potter script-format (augh!) 'humour' fic, and it was the first thing I ever posted on fanfiction.net (and also the first thing I ever took down from it). It is about the no-doubt-hilarious adventures of Hermione Granger and two completely substanceless original characters, Aria and Jed. Everything is as it was in the original, exclamation marks and all, with the exception of the bolding and italics, which I have added for ease of reading. Because it's bad enough on its own without being hard on the eyes as well.
( Seriously, this is awful. It's a particularly immature twelve-year-old's attempt at humorous scriptfic. Don't look. )
SUCH A YOUNG WIT, RIONA. You'd bloody well better post extracts from your old things now, because I don't want to be the only one shuddering. (I like to think I've improved immensely in the seven years I've been writing since then, but what am I using my painstakingly-acquired writing skills for? I am writing about men having sex with cars. I hope I'm proud of myself.)
Most fanfiction writers will know the feeling: you look back at a fic you were quite proud of three or four years ago and think, with a sense of horror, 'I can't believe I ever thought this was good.' So you rip it down from wherever it was archived and hide in appalled shame.
It is time for those fics we wish we could forget to come crawling back out of the depths.
Take an extract from the earliest-written (or the worst, if you're feeling particularly brave) of the fics you once wiped from the face of the Internet but still have lurking somewhere on your hard drive. Post it to your journal. Cringe.
This must have been written when - oh, look, I'm verbally distancing myself from it. I must have written this at some point in the year 2000, so I would have been about twelve. It is a Harry Potter script-format (augh!) 'humour' fic, and it was the first thing I ever posted on fanfiction.net (and also the first thing I ever took down from it). It is about the no-doubt-hilarious adventures of Hermione Granger and two completely substanceless original characters, Aria and Jed. Everything is as it was in the original, exclamation marks and all, with the exception of the bolding and italics, which I have added for ease of reading. Because it's bad enough on its own without being hard on the eyes as well.
( Seriously, this is awful. It's a particularly immature twelve-year-old's attempt at humorous scriptfic. Don't look. )
SUCH A YOUNG WIT, RIONA. You'd bloody well better post extracts from your old things now, because I don't want to be the only one shuddering. (I like to think I've improved immensely in the seven years I've been writing since then, but what am I using my painstakingly-acquired writing skills for? I am writing about men having sex with cars. I hope I'm proud of myself.)
