writer-friends:

[lirazel]

Do you ever go back and read something you wrote quite some time ago and think, "Damn. That was actually pretty good. Where did that come from?" And just have no idea where it came from because you can't imagine that line/scene/insight actually coming from you because it's more than you think you're capable of?

Or is that just me?

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[crackers4jenn.livejournal.com]

I don't have the "more than you think you're capable of" thought, but every once in a while I'll read a fic I wrote a long while back and think to myself, "Self, that was not half bad!" But that is rare, because mostly I will get only a few paragraphs in to whatever I've written, old school or not, and be hit with a wall of cringing. So, hm, I guess there is a little bit of that "more than you think you're capable of" feeling involved...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I do the cringing a lot, mostly with my older stuff. With my newer stuff, when it doesn't measure up, it's more of the eye-roll variety.