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*

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[simplelyric.livejournal.com]

I write so differently now from how I did when I started a dozen or so years ago. I think that if I even considered editing some of the older stuff, I'd be too tempted to give it a complete overhaul, and that's just a minefield for time usage as well as for mental health. Those stories I'll have to reread and decide whether they're simply too cringe-worthy to draw any more attention to them or whether I like them enough to be able to live with them potentially gaining more readers as they are.

Anything newer or that I know I was fairly happy with at the time of original posting -- especially stories that had thorough betas -- I'll probably put on the AO3 as-is, aside from any necessary formatting adjustments. It takes a long time, for me at least, even using the Import tool, to get everything how I want it on there, though. The meadowlion fic LJ is still going to be my primary posting spot at this point other than for challenge fics that are part of collections like Yuletide.