Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl

[firstlight]

Mmm. Someone left a comment on my first Tenipuri fanfic last night, and it left me feeling oddly warm and fuzzy. That story is just a few months shy of three years old, and the writing is all over the place, and I hadn't really figured out the characters that well at the time, but it feels pretty special to me. (I kind of feel the same about my first Saiyuki fanfic, only I never finished that, and it's doomed to obscurity because I never dared crosspost it in part, though it still lurks around on my fic comm. It has equally patchy writing and I think the characters hadn't established themselves strongly in my mind, but I sort of love it anyway. It is another of my deformed offspring. >>) Going back to look at the fic when I got that comment gave me a sort of nostalgia...

Apart from anything else, I miss daring to just write things, without worrying about whether it'd be difficult or whatever other excuses I manage to come up with for not working on projects these days.

Yes, Pez, I know. Tarundoru.

Comments

[chez-maltesers.livejournal.com]

I find writing comes and goes for me, but I agree that there's always something special about the first stories you write and share. :D I know my earlier (maybe ALL) my PoT fics are whacked, but I still like them because they were fun to write. XD

:0 It's hard to establish characters when you first get into a series, and it's harder still to write them the way you see them if a whole fandom seems to have some hangup about their personalities being a certain way.