AO3-ing

[kriadydragon]

I'm slowly but surely getting my stories up on AO3 (SGA stories and up. Anything before then I haven't really decided if I want to transfer since it's my earliest of earliest so not that great). Everything White Collar that I wanted to transfer has been transferred.

SGA I'm currently up to Hound of Hell you Cry, and that's just my FF.net stuff. There's still my LJ stuff, my Flashfiction stuff... my word I wrote a lot of SGA :/

And knowing what I know now, it's all mostly cringe worthy. Not bad just... to clean most of them up I would probably have to rewrite them.

And have I improved over the years? Honestly? I can't say. I've fluctuated so much in terms of style, and mood, and motivation (which at one point took such a major beating I almost lost the will to write) that it's all kind of jumbled - some stories I've written with care and attention, others written to get them out of the way, some stories are wordy, some stories in need of more words. And, being the author, I'm forever going to see the need to improve.

But I can say that I have definitely changed when it comes to writing. Plot is what matters. Writing a good story is what matters. Writing candy fic... not so much. Though I still love H/C and whump, I'm not as heavy handed about it as I used to be. Nor am I bound and determined to squeeze in every single one of my little kinks. Writing a well written fic has become far more satisfying than writing a story merely to satiate a craving, and that I do consider to be an improvement (not that I think there is anything wrong with candy fic. Far from it. But I want to be a professional writer, and to write the kind of books that make it in the publishing world - and with readers - I need to be careful not to let my plots get bogged down by my "trope cravings." In other words, I need to be able to balance having my cake and eating it, too.)

Comments

[kazbaby]

I've been slowly going through all of your SGA fic since I discovered it last year and I can say that you've definitely improved. Not that you were bad when you started, I'm just saying that your abilities as a writer and storyteller have become much stronger over time.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

I guess you know how much I loved your Hound From Hell You Cry..............
I feel your writing has evolved as any writer would do........
I have not read your White Collar as I am not familiar with the show, but....
I also wonder what happened to your mystery?? Is it still in the works or
what? I loved the detective in that.........

[kajahryujin.livejournal.com]

I can say that there was a definite improvement in your writing since you started. I quite enjoy your stories since they are the hurt comfort genre but there is also an emphasis on the recovery. There needs to be more of that in this genre. I agree that there are many things that distract authors from their writing and make them leery of writing very long stories, myself included. I also have an issue with the middles of stories. I can get the beginnings and endings down but the middles are difficult. Do you have any advice on how to resolve that issue?