Mar. 23rd, 2003

vaznetti: (hacksaw)
I saw this in [livejournal.com profile] maidenjedi and [livejournal.com profile] debc's journal. It's Unfinished Fic Amnesty Week! An official excuse to clear out those stories you know you're never going to finish. This is Nanda's description of the idea:

Let's all post one of our unfinished fics -- incomplete, unbetaed, maybe just a beginning or just an ending, maybe from a fandom you haven't been active in in ages, possibly in complete shambles. Fix it up a little if you must, but just a little, mind; run a spellcheck if you absolutely have to. Put it on your site, in your blog, wherever, making sure to note that it is unfinished, of course, and -- this is important -- never will be finished.

The secret is allowing yourself to admit that you are done with that story, for better or worse. That it will never, ever live up to the grand expectations you had of it when you wrote that first brilliant (or not-so-brilliant) sentence. That it may have been crap to begin with, but that's totally okay. Just let it go (fly, be free, little fic) and -- this is perhaps most important -- cross it off your unfinished fic list, remove it from your fic-in-progress folder, whatever you do to mark a fic as complete.


Go here, to Nanda's journal, for the full explanation. And now [livejournal.com profile] twinkledru has an interesting idea for a variation on this theme.

Of course, now I don't know what to post. I kept opening files and thinking, hey, that has potential... maybe I should work in it a little more. Hm. This may be more difficult than I first thought.

Brunch first, then fic, I think.

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