Still making my laborious way through the mess of stiff, formal, dense prose that constitutes my early writing, finding so much bad punctuation and so many random sentence fragments and incomplete bits of phrase, and it’s got me pondering, we were in some desperate times, we AeriSephers, for this old fic to have ever made a mark.

ardwynna:

ardwynna:

Oh god I have to do over every single action scene in this thing like not even a little tweak here and there I might as well be writing from scratch why can’t you numbskulls make love not war it’s easier to write dammit to heck and all that

Oh god how did anybody ever read this thing and think I could write there are typos everywhere and so many participles dangling how did I miss all these with the years of reading do I even know what proofreading actually is

Amen the chapter’s done so I’m going to embroider for a bit until I forget how terrible that whole thing just was

ardwynna:

Oh god I have to do over every single action scene in this thing like not even a little tweak here and there I might as well be writing from scratch why can’t you numbskulls make love not war it’s easier to write dammit to heck and all that

Oh god how did anybody ever read this thing and think I could write there are typos everywhere and so many participles dangling how did I miss all these with the years of reading do I even know what proofreading actually is

Oh god I have to do over every single action scene in this thing like not even a little tweak here and there I might as well be writing from scratch why can’t you numbskulls make love not war it’s easier to write dammit to heck and all that

Does The Mission need a beach chapter? Whatever, it’s getting one.

Am I really going to add a twelfth multipart to my list just for the food porn? Probably.

Am I seriously writing a fic, and its sequel, AND its prequel simultaneously? Well, I’m sure stranger things have happened.