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Date: Aug. 28th, 2008 02:19 am (UTC)I find myself wanting to comment on this part:
So when I finally got to fanfic, when I was nineteen, I was initially contemptuous of just how bad so much of it was. I knew I was better than that--and I felt like I was above it all, too. Pride goeth before a fall!
Because, ha, me too. Probably most everyone here too. I've always been a reader, and I've always prided myself on being a good writer. I've never shied away from criticism. It's just perhaps that the sort of writing I was doing for myself was of a different nature, essentially, than what I started writing when I started posting. Not that I held myself to any lower standards, but that the material was much more personal/revealing and thus harder to share.