Crossbow

The corollary to Favorite Fic That You Have Written.

I'm gonna say Star Trek: Franchise. Of course, if I thought anything was REALLY bad, I wouldn't have posted it in the first place, but this one is bad in that I didn't plan it out before I started, and I'm stuck on how to get to the next part.

kaykayelle

My worst is probably my first, Strange Circumstances. The grammar was awful, the formatting got totally botched, and the plot barely made sense. If I were to go back and salvage that, I don't think there would be one thing worth saving. And the worst part is that that was part of a trilogy. The other two that follow that one are semi better but they still stink. Most of my stuff isn't all that great, but that one is by far the worst.

Silversun

Nice counter-thread.

I'm one of those people who cover up their old crappiness by going back and doing massive revisions, as I am doing with my early fanfic series right now. So I would like to think that all my most heinous fics, the ones with the appalling grammar and plotlines, etc, are all buried. The whole season 2 and most of season 3 of Nicky's YA Episodes were pretty darn awful, as was my first fanfic attempt, Fangs, a BtVS/YA crossover. I've redone them so the crappy versions aren't online anymore, although some people have told me they've saved the old versions on their computers, blegh.

I guess out of the stuff that I don't plan to revise just yet, I am most unhappy with Overfire, a short Young Americans songfic. I wrote it in the first person narrative, which I really hate right now. The whole story was completely told instead of shown; and... I guess I just don't like it because I have moved on as a writer, and in hindsight it was quite a juvenile effort.

Cold-Blooded Piece of Toast

It has to be my first story. I wrote it when I was fifteen back in '98. *So* horrible. I really loved Enrique Iglesias back before he started singing in English. *turns red*

Death Series

Yes, I used to put the whole song before the story and sometimes it was longer than the chapter itself. *g* Uh, Dawson attempts suicide. A stupid plot device to get him together with Joey. Still, I was writing out my dark feelings of angst.

Gabrielle

wolkenfuehlen

Luckily, only two of my fanfics are online and I'm happy with both of them. The only other fic I ever published, but deleted about a year ago, was called Our Love Will Last Forever. It was the first fic I ever wrote. I would call it my worst fic because of all the grammar mistakes I made, because of my horrible writing style and, most of all, because of the plot: it dealt with a guy committing suicide without any reason, his girlfriend finding him and deciding that she'd kill herself, too. I just hate that fic very much because I wrote about suicide and death as if it was no big deal and because the whole storyline seemed very pointless. The guy didn't have any reason to kill himself, at least I never explored his reasons in the fic.

Crossbow

That's a good thing to do, even if it's painful. They say half of writing is rewriting.

Of course, the most truly craptacular stuff I've ever commited to paper was teen angst poetry in high school, but I think that's all been destroyed. Let's not go there.

Silversun

Hehe, craptacular. What a cool word. Methinks I shall use it much.

Ah, we hit upon something that's very close to my heart here. We touched upon it briefly in the 'I can't stand' thread too, regarding rape and incest. Trivialising really important issues like that is just... well, a mark of real immaturity as a writer, isn't it? I hope you don't mind my saying this since 1)you love me and 2)you deleted the story so you must agree to some extent.

kaykayelle

I totally misused rape in my worst story. I didn't even realize it until someone called me out on it, but then I didn't want to change it because I'd would have had to take the story down. I was having too much fun writing it. Plus, it kind of almost worked. It fit into the backstory, but everything that I wrote just completely ruined the whole entire concept. The emotional processes were all rushed and I pushed my main character into this deep relationship that really made no sense at all. I don't think I could ever read anything with rape in it ever again because of how much I royally sucked at that story. It was awful.

I've recycled some of my plots a bit, but I'd never go down the rape path again. I sounded so... immature, as Silversun said. There's no better word for it really.

Orton

Nicky: I loved Overfire

Emm... 3 out of my 4 attempts at writing Young Americans - I blame on the lack of episodes j/k

Scythe

All of mine suck! So I only read fic now. No more writing.

Silversun

Well, thank you...

kaykayelle, I have to say I kind of trivialised rape, too, I think. In one of the earlier plotlines of my YA series, a character nearly got raped. I did give it ample angst space, and she was quite broken up about it for a while; but in hindsight I think it was wrong of me to use it as a plot device, which was what it essentially was. The event itself seemed to be less important to me than what I wanted it to allow (the main couple breaking up), which I think is a way of trivialising it, though I don't think it's quite as bad.

Orton

I'm sure thats not true

ness

I did this Young Americans thing called Matchmaking.. it was my 2nd fic. And the 1st had been a burning hotel, and I was sick of big melodramas, so wanted to do a story with convincing everydaytype emergencies.. you know, nasty lesson in maths, meatloaf for dinner, and, oh dear, it's raining. Simple mundane things.

Result: the story felt so lacking in, er, story. So so so dull. Nowadays, I'd spike it, but it went ahead and got posted. Grrr.

moral: Back to the melodrama (mwahahahaha)

Silversun

Right on. Why else would The O.C. be so popular?

ness

I hugely admire writers who can do boring stuff interestingly. Um, that came out wrong. Though the good domestic fic I read is professional books - I do want angst and sniggers and extremes in fanfic I read.