I wrote two truly awful chaptered fics when I was new to writing. One - the worse of the two - is thankfully now cyberdust as the site hosting it went kaput, the other remains lurking in a rarely frequented comm of LJ as a reminder to me that if I'm gonna write a chaptered fic I should plan in advance to avoid a plot with more holes than one of my Nan's sweaters.
I mostly stuck to oneshots after that; or wrote the whole fic and then broke it into chapters. Then for wintercompanion I wrote a 20 chaptered fic that was a crossover with FFX and I realised how much better my writing was when I had a plot to follow. So from that I learned I could handle epic fic so long as I got the plot straight in my head to begin with.
Isn't selective memory fun :D
People didn't have expectations of me once I'd been labelled 'the smart kid', they had assumptions; which I found to be a lot more annoying. So many people came up to my friends and I on the last day of school saying things like "I'm so sorry for thinking you were a freak and being horrible to you. I really wish I'd gotten to know you." and I was just a bit like "Yeah, maybe you should have gotten to know us!" Ah well, no use bitching about it now.... Not that that'll stop me XD
Heard about the Glee Fic Awards and nommed a litle already. Planning to do some more though (Because a flimsy excuse to reread Winn fic is still an excuse to reread Winn fic XD)
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I mostly stuck to oneshots after that; or wrote the whole fic and then broke it into chapters. Then for wintercompanion I wrote a 20 chaptered fic that was a crossover with FFX and I realised how much better my writing was when I had a plot to follow. So from that I learned I could handle epic fic so long as I got the plot straight in my head to begin with.
Isn't selective memory fun :D
People didn't have expectations of me once I'd been labelled 'the smart kid', they had assumptions; which I found to be a lot more annoying. So many people came up to my friends and I on the last day of school saying things like "I'm so sorry for thinking you were a freak and being horrible to you. I really wish I'd gotten to know you." and I was just a bit like "Yeah, maybe you should have gotten to know us!" Ah well, no use bitching about it now.... Not that that'll stop me XD
Heard about the Glee Fic Awards and nommed a litle already. Planning to do some more though (Because a flimsy excuse to reread Winn fic is still an excuse to reread Winn fic XD)