Your Stories You Don't Like or Wish You Could Change

Is there a story you've written that people tell you they love but you don't really like it? Or there's one thing about it that you wish you could just erase and re-write?

Tell us about it.

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I have a few, mostly older.

Nevermore. It's a Green Day fanfic. Classic stepdad rapes Billie Joe plotline. I hated the ending. I thought it was ridiculous, inaccurate, and overdramatic.

How We Got Here (or Time of Your Life). I actually really like this story and I thought I did a good job for my first slash in the fandom [Green Day], but I wish I could go back and do a little bit more in the shorter sections because it was a POV-switcher.

How We Stay Here (or Waiting). The sequel to the above fic. I wrote myself into a corner when I put Joey into a coma and I wish I hadn't.

Two For Tragedy. It was really well received, but there were major mistakes I made as a writer in it. The one I hate the most is making Mikey receive Frank's kiss so soon after his rape. It just wasn't something I do [anymore].

I really, really hated the ending for I Wanna Fuck You Like an Animal. It was rushed and just generally horrible -shudder-
There's plenty more, but that's the standout.

Hospital Romance had a rushed ending and Tears of Blood had the whole 'girl got raped by dad and got saved by Gerard Way' plotline. Both are just horribly cliched.

Deadly Romantic There are parts that just make me wanna be sick! It's not as planned as it could be, early parts don't gel with later parts, and it feels I'm just dragging it out now, but it's not finished yet!
I'd love to just start it again, but it's too much effort. I feel like just cutting out the middle to get to the ending I've already written.

Hand of Blood, even though it's the only story I have that people actually read...
I like it, I suppose, but I wish I could change it. It's just way too dramatic, and slightly cliche. I've rewritten it twice now, and I'm still not happy with it. Just the order of events, what actually happens and how it happens never seems to work. The ending also fails hardcore.

Gah. It's just all wrong to me.

Lovesick.It annoys me because I try my hardest not to make everything I write overly depressing but I find that I've failed at that. I mean I've only done four chapters... but that's the point. I hate it already even though it's 'amazing' and 'interesting'

Also... the first successful Frerard I wrote; These Wounds Won't Seem To Heal
Incredibly popular but terrible... really cliched.

Hmm...

It Wasn't - the plotline was all over the place. I suppose it was meant to be character driven but the characters seemed too weak. They weren't real. And Tre, oh godddd. I screwed him up completely. Alice is just a trainwreck from start to finish. Adie should have been more than just a cameo and Billie Joe was such an asswipe. Srsly. I regret writing it, sometimes.

Fallen - never posted the rest of the story and took off what I posted. Still doing some maaaajor revisions to it, because no one has a motive for anything. Like, they're all just running around like clueless morons. And also, people don't just drop dead for no reason. They also don't go insane out of the blue. So yeah.

Impossible - My first original but still. Meh-ness x 50. It doesn't make proper sense and I don't mean that in a good way.

Of Honesty and Denial - never posted the whole thing. because srsly, I can't do it properly. The stuff that's supposed to happen just seems so completely improbable unless you can build a proper backstory and motivation. I can do neither. iFail.

Shattered Hearts, Broken Dreams - The story got great reviews and a ton of subscribers. I loved it as I was writing but after I finished it I thought I could have done a much better job on it.

Rage and Love.
I wrote it back on GSB when there was still a storyboard [ages ago].
It was interactive. My readers had to review to stop death.
It was a joke how it was conceived, but the writing wasn't bad.
It was just that I had to keep inventing all these turns to the plotline so that a potential death could occur.
It worked for it's purpose, but as a story it just wasn't the way I work.

Two Vibrant Hearts Could Change. I got loads of reviews for it, but I personally think that although the writing wasn't bad for me, it was cliche and some of the characters seemed rather shallow.

Petals In The Wind. I like the plot very much, but I wrote that before I had a beta and I can see a lot of things I wish I could have changed. Some comma splices and awkward arrangment when it comes to a character speaking is probably what gets me the most. But I don't I ever will change it, because after all it was my first huge story and it couldn't have been perfect, and the only thing that mattered was how I learned from it.

Kill Me Romanticall. It was just so.. ugh. And when I see how popular it was in its day, I know it has to be just because it was in the My Chem fandom.

My oldest story still on here, Click, Click.

It's got a terrible plot, in my eyes. And I didn't write it well at all. It was just something I came up with at some point last year while I was watching an Addams Family movie, and yeah.

I'd delete it, but my best friend would shoot me if I did. :tehe:

Pretty much all MyChem fics.
I'm too chicken to delete them.

Oh, and I recently wrote this PATD fic. After reading it, I realized the plot went too fast. I need to learn to slow down, that's usually my problem.

For both "Karma Police" and "Tonight, Tonight", the more I think about it, the more I wish I'd written them in first person instead of third. But now it's way too late and as there will undoubtedly be about three more sequels to it I am quite upset.
Oh well...

:think:

I have a bad habit of just killing everybody in a one shot if I don't know any.
His Thorns was just really freaking badly ended.
They all just died. :shock:

Meh, I have this one kind of good story that I have yet to post anywhere, but it just went way too fast.
And this other one has a very badly-written rape scene (no, it's not pointless, it goes.)
I don't know, I have allot of editing and rewriting to do before I post those.

I Don't Google My Own Name is written so badly, I can't look at it ^^;
I also had up My Chemical "Experience" which I co-wrote with my friend, but my parts were so horrible that we decided to stop xD; it was a very cliche Ferard. -shudders-

Don't Scream.
It's my worst story. It's really poorly written and has so many loopholes in it, I can't count them.
I just flat-out hate it and wish I could simply rewrite it, not to mention change its name. Might actually do that, if I manage to get to the end and it still looks bad.

My first few stories on fanfiction.net T_T
The ones listed at the bottom of my profile page that I never wanna go back to, but can't bear to take down because of the comments-- shallow and naive as they may now seem.