i confess, i messed up, dropping "i'm sorry" like you're still around.

[semisweet]

it was kind of like christmas morning today at sarah's! i woke up and i was lying in bed, reading my email, and sarah came in all "hey, your christmas present just came!" and tossed a package at me, so of course i ripped into it immediately, and...

clan pressies ftw! you wish you had my bff. ♥

also, flist, i have a question: if you write fic, do you re-read it often? because i find that when i want to read fic, a lot of the time i just read my own, which strikes me as wildly narcissistic. /o\

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[anglichanka.livejournal.com]

Oh, the bag is cuuuute! You have a wonderful BFF.

I've gone back and read my own fanfic. Same with my schoolwork- everything that I wrote under pressure, with minutes to spare, and thought was a piece of poo (even though I usually got a good grade) has turned out to be pretty good in retrospect.

[novelized.livejournal.com]

HAHAH i can't stand reading my own fic. :( i read it once, and that's just to check for typos. blegh.

[courts.livejournal.com]

I do actually go back and reread my own fic. Sometimes to inspire myself to write something else, sometimes to correct errors I didn't catch the first go-round, and sometimes just because. I mean, presumably we write what *we* want to happen, so it's not all that weird to want to read it again, ya know?

[15north.livejournal.com]

I usually only reread things if I can't remember writing them or if I need some inspiration.

[themightybee.livejournal.com]

your bff IS quite amazing.

*waves from the couch*

[celtic-fish.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty proud of almost all of my fanfic. I can only think of two stories I haven't gone back and re-read multiple times, and they're actually the first two I ever wrote. They're not bad, just not my favorites, because I hadn't really found my groove yet.

[affectingly.livejournal.com]

I reread my shit all the time. I don't know why either, because half the time I end up hating it. But I'll still reread it. I'm a sucker for punishment.

[raspsun.livejournal.com]

I re-read all the time and usually feel pleased and proud and then feel like kind of an asshole about it.

[anothersadsong.livejournal.com]

i definitely read my fic! i have to, no one else does!

[machka]

My issue isn't so much narcissism...it's just that there are certain ones of mine that I love to go back and re-read, because i was pushing my own buttons (ahem) or I did something really different and I love the way it turned out... and others that I cringe at and wish I could hide under the bed -- it's deathly embarrassment in those cases. LMAO

I guess I could always delete my so-called "bad fic," or make it private, or whatever, but there's always somebody out there that will be upset because they liked it... :)

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

that's basically why i WRITE fic. if i can find a story that does all the things i want to read, i don't write it. but when i can't, eventually, if i want it that much, i write it myself. and then anytime i'm like, god, why won't anyone write a fic with cross-dressing boys where BOTH of them are in lingerie [or: insert any other weird quirky thing or pairing or angle i become obsessed with] i just remind myself to go reread my own.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

why shouldn't you reread your fic? your fic is good!

but seriously, i think people are right- we write because we want to see xyz happen, so it makes sense we'd reread our own stuff. it's not really narcissistic, i don't think.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

(note icon, which always pleasantly reminds me of a certain fic of yours.)