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rj_anderson...and at the time I even believed it, but I had not banked on just how anal retentive my Internal Editor can be.
I know that most of the people who would be interested in the Darkness and Light trilogy have already read it, so a few changes here and there aren't likely to bring in new readers. I also know that a lot of HP ficcers are in the same boat as I am, and most of them don't seem to be worrying about it. None of that seems to make any difference to the right head of this particular Runespoor, however, so...
I have decided that for my own peace of mind, and for the sake of having a reasonably stable foundation on which to build future fics (at least until the next HP book comes out), I have got to go back and reedit D&L to bring it into line with new canon. And then I'll replace the existing versions on FF.net, FA, and SQ with the updated ones.
The real problem is, once I start editing I find I want to edit everything, and I don't have time for that... it took me about two hours to edit the first chapter of the first story and I'm still fiddling about with it.
How do I get myself into these things?
I know that most of the people who would be interested in the Darkness and Light trilogy have already read it, so a few changes here and there aren't likely to bring in new readers. I also know that a lot of HP ficcers are in the same boat as I am, and most of them don't seem to be worrying about it. None of that seems to make any difference to the right head of this particular Runespoor, however, so...
I have decided that for my own peace of mind, and for the sake of having a reasonably stable foundation on which to build future fics (at least until the next HP book comes out), I have got to go back and reedit D&L to bring it into line with new canon. And then I'll replace the existing versions on FF.net, FA, and SQ with the updated ones.
The real problem is, once I start editing I find I want to edit everything, and I don't have time for that... it took me about two hours to edit the first chapter of the first story and I'm still fiddling about with it.
How do I get myself into these things?
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Date: 2003-07-08 12:25 am (UTC)Welcome to Natural Born Fiddlers.
(sounds so much nicer than anal retentive, doesn't it? Which is also, in a way, a very destructive value judgement about what you do. So, after me: I don't produce crap, I fiddle with my writings ...)