I just happened across the pile of old student newspapers that I have kept hold of; around a year's worth (my final year) of which I managed to get contributions into around half. [OK, so they're not actually 'ancient' writings, especially if you're to listen to Annie thinking I'm particularly young, but I had to find a suitably useless title]

My writing wasn't so bad. Well, it was, but excusably so considering the amount of other stuff I was meant to be doing at the time (and the stuff that I actually did instead, by way of procrastination). Certainly, it was nothing a decent editor couldn't have fixed, or requested a rewrite for.

But instead, I find that the editing actually hurt the articles in a lot of places. I remember now being miffed at this at the time; how exactly does the act of moving text from a Word document or a text file into a publishing package introduce a large chance of losing spaces or introducing spare line breaks? To her credit, my editor always put bold in more or less the right places (had I realised that we had bold available I would have put it in myself, of course), but whoever was messing around with the layout was really butchering it at times.

I'm fussy about such things, especially when it's my name on the final copy and the mistakes appear to be mine. Maybe that's just me.