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Posted on: 2011-05-24 15:35:00 UTC
Cheers and thanks for your reply, O.A, but I thought I'd just put this out there and see what others would think. As I was relating to another boarder, this had undergone a number of revisions leading up to it's current state and I am attempting to improve this as I go.
With the Board's permission (and as interpretd under the Board's Constitution, Section Eight)...
For those who may be interested, I direct you to my only published fanfic, an incomplete Warhammer 40,000 / Mass Effect crossover.
Why? In hindsight, I look back on what I have written so far and sometimes I could not help but laugh.
The two core reasons for this attitude is:
1) A beginning author's first published fanfic - a crossover. Not a good move.
No matter how many revisions had been done over the two years I had been working on it, no matter the amount of canon knowledge or command of the English language I had gained over the years, a crossover is, in hindsight, a bad place to start in the fanfic world; and
2) As a fanfic writer, I can generally expect that the base would have a basic understanding about basic facets of the canon. Unfortunatly, I look back and realise my description may have been too basic. See for yourselves.
Go ahead - laugh, cry, throw something out of an airlock, but I hope I brought an interesting bit of fan work along to the board to pass the time.
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6492167/1/TipoftheSpearEdgeoftheBladeRedux
We all make mistakes. Heck, I did some pretty bad/subpar stuff myself when I was first starting out.
But I was young! Inexperienced!
Looking back at it now, I admit that I could have done better, which is why I'm working to improve myself and my writing.
To sum it all up:
“There's no reason to be ashamed by past works because the only person who should be ashamed is the person you were when you made them, and that person no longer exists. It's said that every artist/writer/whatever creative type has 10,000 bad paintings/stories/projects in them, and it's just a matter of getting through them all. Chzo was part of that. So I don't regret anything about them. I can't make people forget about the rougher bits. But I can criticise them along with everyone else.” -Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, on the “Chzo Mythos”
Cheers and thanks for your reply, O.A, but I thought I'd just put this out there and see what others would think. As I was relating to another boarder, this had undergone a number of revisions leading up to it's current state and I am attempting to improve this as I go.
I don't know the canons, but there's people around here who do, and could either kill it, beta it, or give concrit :)
You should've seen some of my early writing. I created the sparkliest 'Sue ever... Seriously, I'm still sneezing glitter today!
Ha ha ha! Well, I'll let the readers be the judge of that, Calista. As I mentioned before, I'm just presenting it for general interest.
As for if it is potential badfic material, I'll just have to see when I get a chance to finally finish the darn thing and it is fully complete...
Like that's going to happen! XD