I still have... Sailor Moon fic up. O.O {slinks off in shame}
Totally understand the impulse! It's natural, and that's why I put that sentence in for myself as well. I cringe at some of the earlier work, and I *hate* having my unfinished WIPs up... but I have been told by people that they would much rather have them up than not, and so I sigh and leave them up because that's how I posted them, that's how people enjoyed them then... and that's how people might still enjoy them today.
The impulse to keep fiddling and fixing and applying what we've learned to posted stuff is incredible. However, published authors don't have a chance to go back and fix their stuff, and honestly, the few times I've seen reprints from new publishers where the author has had the chance... I've almost always preferred the original. We're just online authors (I wouldn't ever want to be anything else, to be honest), but in some ways the principle is the same. They came out in one form, and they should stay in that form (unless it's really godawful bad and horrible ^^) (and typos can always be fixed!).
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Date: 2012-03-06 02:44 am (UTC)Totally understand the impulse! It's natural, and that's why I put that sentence in for myself as well. I cringe at some of the earlier work, and I *hate* having my unfinished WIPs up... but I have been told by people that they would much rather have them up than not, and so I sigh and leave them up because that's how I posted them, that's how people enjoyed them then... and that's how people might still enjoy them today.
The impulse to keep fiddling and fixing and applying what we've learned to posted stuff is incredible. However, published authors don't have a chance to go back and fix their stuff, and honestly, the few times I've seen reprints from new publishers where the author has had the chance... I've almost always preferred the original. We're just online authors (I wouldn't ever want to be anything else, to be honest), but in some ways the principle is the same. They came out in one form, and they should stay in that form (unless it's really godawful bad and horrible ^^) (and typos can always be fixed!).