Finding the gaffes
One good thing about editing an old fanfic is finding the mistakes you never knew you’d made. For example, in order to tie a vignette in Burning Muses to Serendipity, I had John Tracy say something about his father visiting him… while he was supposedly on the International Space Station! Uh, no. That doesn’t happen, even if Jeff Tracy is a retired astronaut. What was I thinking? Now I have to figure out which darling to kill: the call out…