[ SECRET POST #6935 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6935 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes, when I'm feeling irritable, I go back to a fic where I liked the premise but the sentence-level writing annoyed me, copy-paste the text into a Word doc, and edit/rewrite the shit out of it. I do this because sometimes I literally cannot stop mentally rewriting the sentences as I read them. It's like a compulsion. No one will ever know.

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't even need to feel irritable, just that sense of "this fic would be good if it were good." I do it as a gift for future me.

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[(Anonymous)]

"this fic would be good if it were good."

God that is such a mood. Sooomany fic I've encountered leave me with that feeling/thought.

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't rewrite anything but I sure as heck copy edit stuff before sending it to my Kindle. One of my very favorites can't for the life of them use apostrophes correctly and doesn't understand how dialogue tags work (this is wrong: "I had a Good day." He said.). It hurts my brain but I adore the stories so I clean up the punctuation.

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[pengilly]

I was wondering who else did this! I usually only do this with fics that I really love, before I import them to my kindle through Calibre. I correct spelling errors and obvious grammatical errors, but otherwise leave the writing style, sentence structure, etc, untouched. I honestly don't see any issue, given that even reprints of classical works of literature get this treatment (typos being silently corrected by the Modern Library reprint). It helps me focus purely on the text itself.

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[(Anonymous)]

Fair. If I've downloaded fic to re-read later I'll correct SPAG errors. Or cut out bits that bored me.