Unfinished fics

[holdouttrout]

I know it's a sin to post unfinished fics, but does anyone else have this crazy desire to post odds and ends? Things that didn't quite work, or morphed into something else, or just bits of smut that aren't worth the time you took to write? What do people do with the detritus fanfic leaves behind?

And how odd is it, really, that I just wrote 15 pages of crappy fanfic backstory for a crack!fic? Which I must fix and post soon. I mean the crack!fic, not the backstory. Because what am I going to do with this monster that appeared on my hard drive? It's not like anyone's going to really like the crack!fic, and then to have the 15 page backstory? It might just be is too much. Maybe I can post it with the rest of my crappy odds and ends and make a link to it or something.

On the plus side, it's got more plot than a longer, finished story I wrote a few months ago. Which is sad.

I'm contemplating fixing the stupid thing and posting it.

Comments

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Didn't get any responses. *sobs* But at the time I wasn't really involved in any fanfic worlds, as such - I was just putting it up... in the vague hope that someone would come across it, I guess. It was early days, for me. So I don't know what kind of response you might get if you posted stuff up, being on livejournal as you are.

I like the idea of posting all that to a forum or such, like venom69 mentioned... although I don't know how I'd feel about someone else finishing my story. But perhaps the relief would be worth it.

I have this songfic, and I can't quite convince myself to kill it completely... it commits the sin of karaoke, too... but still... She borrows Jack's leather jacket in order to dress up as 80s Madonna, and... argh. Every now and then I open it up and see if there's any way to redeem it. It's so wrong, and yet...

I can proudly state that I've never written fic poetry / poetry fic, though. Have drawn the line there. *g*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

80s Madonna...leather jacket...it has to be done. The karaoke sin is a big one, but as long as it's actual karaoke, and not characters randomly bursting into song or declaring their "OMG SO HEARTFELT FEELINGS LOL" you can probably get away with it.

A lot of my teenage angst cam out in poetry fic. Lots of depressing imagery, bad characterization, etc. Yay. I'm not proud to admit that one of these was as recent as last year, but I'm willing to forgive myself and move on.