I'm rereading my old stories and holy hell, the bar was so low! like, I know a lot of theses stories I wrote not that long ago, but seriously? People actually thought I was a good writer? Call it nitpicky, but I think my old writing was way too rushed, random and not very insightful. I'm improving on this, but it was so bad back then. I wasn't even aware of it. I thought I was good! Maybe I was. Coming back from Ao3 and FF.net really raises the stakes .