section7mfu | Looking At Past Work... (Reply)

I am amazed to take note of the years that have passed since I first encountered this thing called Fan Fiction. I had never heard of it before I began scouring the internet for anything related to MFU after I devoured the DVD collection during a marathon of late night viewing.

I was amazed when I discovered the genre, surprised at how good so much of it was, and is. The idea of writing myself was only after weeks of reading all that I could find, and realizing that I might have a few stories to tell.
Here it is then, nine years later, and I'm still amazed that I can craft a story of reasonably good quality. That bonus of writing about characters that are already fleshed out for me certainly has made it easier, especially since I took the route of staying very close to the TV version. I like canon, I like these guys just the way I saw them back in the 60's.

So, what I'm thinking of today is how often any of us revisit past works. I know that when I get a notice of a comment or kudos over on AO3, I sometimes go back to see what I wrote. I don't think I'm alone in saying that I have forgotten a lot of what I posted over the past years. Recently, a kudos was left on a story that isn't very old, but didn't immediately register with me. I was struck, when re-reading it, by a few lines that made me wonder where, or how I came up with them.
This one in particular:

"Mr. Kuryakin, are you with us?" Alexander Waverly recognized the Russian's propensity for drifting into another mental compartment, analyzing his surroundings as the current scenario played out in another portal of awareness. He was complicated that way.

I'm both pleased and puzzled by these lines. Do you have snippets like that? Are there lines from a story that you stand back and wonder about? Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I feel as though something must have come over me to write something good, better than I think I'm capable of writing.

Please chime in, I'd love to know what you think.

** The story referenced is In The Lens
*** My first story was posted in June of 2010