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[chocolatepot]

Almost finished with first history of white weddings blog post - the end is a bit choppy, but it's always hard to end posts in series, I find. I just want to go back in and add some info from Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding, because I'm trying to get better about using academic sources.

I actually participated in a group critique of people's opening pages on r/fantasywriters, and it was really fun! Definitely preferable to the usual way critique goes on that sub, where people post a link to the first chapter or so of their work as its own thread, and there's just so much to critique that you have to be a bit shallow or leave a lot unsaid. I talked with some people about their openings and one of the mods eventually took pity on me and responded to mine - I'm always leery of sharing my writing, but I did want some advice on whether I was restarting the story in the wrong place. She(? I feel like the mods of that sub skew female) advised me to continue from where I'd left off in the original and then go back and rework, but the original was written in 2013 and ... that's not really such a long time, but when I reread it I'm like, what baby wrote this and why was their style so awkward, so.

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[an_english_girl]

Four years ago is a /long/ time in writing. OK, four years is actually a long time in anything, but I look back now on articles I had published four years ago and it's like "They printed /this/???"
I take comfort in the tale Helene Hanff told in 84 Charing Cross Road, when she re-read the diary of her London trip six months later, and by the end of the evening the whole thing was so covered in corrections and re-writes she had to type it out because it was unreadable!

[chocolatepot]

Right! Oh gosh, if I edited my diaries I would get nothing else done.