Progression

[SinderellaSin]

Do I need to give my readers a warning? Those first pieces were allowed on as a rookie writer. Literotica used to spank my arse for writing so badly. I didn't understand.

I recently went back and read a couple of my stories because of the links they have to future stories. I thought, oh my god how did I write this. Hopefully, people stick with my work and see the progression in writing and editing. I still write badly on a phone, it's my punishment. But I try to edit it so it's more classically written.

I looked at those first few stories back, my CAPITALS for Dwayne's speech. I deserved a spanking. Thank you, Literotica, for attempting to make me a better writer.

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[anthrodisiac]

So... warning about what? That your previous stories' quality isn't as good?

 

[SinderellaSin]

So... warning about what? That your previous stories' quality isn't as good?

Yes I never finished that thought. They hopefully improve as you go through the series. The writing is how it should be and not just my own style as the first few start off very poor I feel now.

Readable, to understand me but not properly written.

 

[anthrodisiac]

So would the warnings go on the old ones or the new ones? Seems unnecessary to put them on the newer stories, because those have better quality writing and if it's chaptered work, they've already seen the previous chapters. If you're talking about putting warnings on the previous ones through the edit process, you could always clean them up and repost them. I get that's kinda time consuming, so you could, in the interim, put some message to the effect of these are earlier writings and noting that the quality of writing improves while you clean them up.

 

[Voboy]

I wouldn't bother, personally. Especially if your stats on those early stories are good. No spanking necessary.

We're more critical about our own shortcomings than the readers are, quite often. I think it would be appropriate, after the very last installment of your series, to remind the viewers what a long, strange trip it's been, and how you read some of your early stuff and feel like it's so much worse. But it's not really required.

If your fans are reading all your stuff, they love it. That's a gift.

 

[NotWise]

Yes I never finished that thought. They hopefully improve as you go through the series. The writing is how it should be and not just my own style as the first few start off very poor I feel now.

Readable, to understand me but not properly written.

I think a lot of us could add a warning like that.

Readers on Lit, except for a few self-appointed critics, aren't very critical. A warning like that could lead them to opinions that they'd never have otherwise.

 

[AStrangeDesire]

I think a lot of us could add a warning like that.

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I was thinking the same, as in 'hopefully I'm improving as I'm going along'.

@SinderellaSin if you feel strongly about it, I'd put it in your biography, as a not somewhere towards the end.

 

[MillieDynamite]

On another site, I get comments, this story isn't your normal quality. I want to scream, look at the fucking date, 2013, I wrote the MFer 13 years ago!

 

[TheWritingGroup]

My worry would be (is) that people will look at the old ones and expect your quality to still be at that level.

Some writers take down their early stories, I believe for that reason.

 

[anthrodisiac]

My worry would be (is) that people will look at the old ones and expect your quality to still be at that level.

Some writers take down their early stories, I believe for that reason.

I can't even imagine if someone found my old, old stories from the late 00s on another site and somehow traced them back to me what they would even think. It's, uh, it's stark, let's go with that.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've done a few edits of my older stories, to correct those glaring rookie mistakes. Like putting two peoples dialogue in the same paragraph. Then I submit them as edits, and I feel a little better about the early stories. I think I've done it with three stories.