Retrospective

I'm still on sick leave, and out of sheer boredom I've been rereading some of my old posted fanfic.  I started posting on Fanfiction.net back when they didn't do italics, and I've never gone back and fixed the few that have asterisks instead.  :P 

They've changed their pattern again, too--double dashes have disappeared, which leaves my stuff looking like I formatted it wrong.  *sigh*  I'm not that careless.  I am, however, lazy enough to wait and hope that they switch back.  

But it's interesting to me to see how my style has changed over time, to see the things that make me wince or roll my eyes.  Not that I'm going to go back and edit anything--I reserve that for serious errors.  But it's been almost ten years...my style has changed.  And improved, if I do say so myself.  

Fandom changed, too, at least for CSI.  I started writing around the middle of the fourth season, I guess, back when the GSR was in its UST heyday.  My first few attempts at resolution are laughable now, given how much was revealed later, and my lack of deeper comprehension of the characters.  But readers were kind, and the welcome they gave me pulled me right into the fandom as a whole.  Come to that, I've only ever had one entry go unreviewed on FF.net, and given the fandom and the entry's structure, I'm not surprised.  *grin*  

I've slowed down in posting lately.  With the GSR resolution that impetus fell away; and while Iron Man offers a lot of scope and some wonderful readers, I just haven't been doing as much.  I wish it were because I was working on original stuff instead, but alas no.  Still, that may change as I heal up and boot the muse back online.  That's boot as in to the rear, not as in booting up...

It's been a great ten years--longer, really, counting the Prey fandom, also marvelous folks.  I'm deeply grateful.  

Retrospective

I'm still on sick leave, and out of sheer boredom I've been rereading some of my old posted fanfic.  I started posting on Fanfiction.net back when they didn't do italics, and I've never gone back and fixed the few that have asterisks instead.  :P 

They've changed their pattern again, too--double dashes have disappeared, which leaves my stuff looking like I formatted it wrong.  *sigh*  I'm not that careless.  I am, however, lazy enough to wait and hope that they switch back.  

But it's interesting to me to see how my style has changed over time, to see the things that make me wince or roll my eyes.  Not that I'm going to go back and edit anything--I reserve that for serious errors.  But it's been almost ten years...my style has changed.  And improved, if I do say so myself.  

Fandom changed, too, at least for CSI.  I started writing around the middle of the fourth season, I guess, back when the GSR was in its UST heyday.  My first few attempts at resolution are laughable now, given how much was revealed later, and my lack of deeper comprehension of the characters.  But readers were kind, and the welcome they gave me pulled me right into the fandom as a whole.  Come to that, I've only ever had one entry go unreviewed on FF.net, and given the fandom and the entry's structure, I'm not surprised.  *grin*  

I've slowed down in posting lately.  With the GSR resolution that impetus fell away; and while Iron Man offers a lot of scope and some wonderful readers, I just haven't been doing as much.  I wish it were because I was working on original stuff instead, but alas no.  Still, that may change as I heal up and boot the muse back online.  That's boot as in to the rear, not as in booting up...

It's been a great ten years--longer, really, counting the Prey fandom, also marvelous folks.  I'm deeply grateful.