avoidy talk

[roxy]

I'm wanting to post some of the very older SV stories at AO3. I'm looking at Boys of Summer right now and ouch--there's some rough spots there. For those of you who repost older stuff, how much editing do you do? I've never really done much more than correct spelling mistakes (or the bane of my life, it's/its), but rereading this story I see some character mistakes...mind you, it was written in 2004--started in 2004, that thing was HUGE. What I'm wondering is, how much correcting would you do if it was your story? *g*

I can't stop myself from fixing major yaks, but I feel kind of shifty about it, like I'm trying to whisk my mistakes under the rug. Yeah, obsessing to keep from thinking about real stuff. *g*

Comments

[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I edit the shit our of it before I repost to A03.... if I feel like it needs it. I only post my faves at A03 though.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking now that I'm going to clean it up to bring it a little more in line with the newer fics.

Also, I've pretty much decided to post *all* the SV stuff there since I really love those fics. They're all them deep pits of angsty, bodice-ripping suffering and despair--even the "humorous" ones, hah! Ah, the old days, when writing was a ton of fun and self-inserts ran rampant through my stories....