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I was too tired to do this last night, but fortunately, I don't have a question for today, so I'll just do both of yesterday's now!
What was the first story you wrote? asked by my bb
shipwreck_light
There's two that I remember. The first-first one was written in the car on vacation somewhere, and was actually dictated to my mother, since I was about three. It was about two boxes that fell in love. I remember this primarily because my mom and dad were playing the game where you try to make someone else finish spelling a word by saying letters (it's complicated) beforehand, and my mom was trying to get dad to spell "breathe" and forgot that "breath" is also a word. Yeah, I dunno.
Anyway, the second one was probably pretty racist, but I wrote it in second grade basically cribbing off this book. It was about a Sioux girl named Blossoming Flower who had just gotten her first pony and she was super proud of it and kind of tortured her little brother a little bit. This one I remember because apparently I included the detail that some of the Sioux's enemies would scalp the Sioux if they caught them and horrified my first-grade teacher. My mother thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard.
Art of any variety you wish you had created. asked by
thebonesofferalletters, who is fantastic and should feel fantastic.
Oh man so many books I wish I'd written. Mostly it's literary fanfiction (so to speak). Like the current book I really wish I'd written is The Song of Achilles, by Madeleine Miller. But I also wish that I had written any and all of Austen's work (did I mention that I overidentify with Jane Austen to an alarming extent?). Ah, but I'm on an Austen kick lately so that's probably why.
Anyway. Yeah. I love those books. I wish I had written them. *hugs them fervently*
in unrelated news oh my GOD this documentary on the Freemasons is reaching so much. I just. How did we get to Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper had nothing to do with the Masons. And that quote you're talking about was a) probably unrelated to the murder it was near and b) erased because the commissioner didn't want to start a rash of hate crimes against Jews. Okay? Okay.
For real though the Freemasons are just another group that wears silly hats and donates to charity. Grow up, documentarians.
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What was the first story you wrote? asked by my bb
shipwreck_light
There's two that I remember. The first-first one was written in the car on vacation somewhere, and was actually dictated to my mother, since I was about three. It was about two boxes that fell in love. I remember this primarily because my mom and dad were playing the game where you try to make someone else finish spelling a word by saying letters (it's complicated) beforehand, and my mom was trying to get dad to spell "breathe" and forgot that "breath" is also a word. Yeah, I dunno.
Anyway, the second one was probably pretty racist, but I wrote it in second grade basically cribbing off this book. It was about a Sioux girl named Blossoming Flower who had just gotten her first pony and she was super proud of it and kind of tortured her little brother a little bit. This one I remember because apparently I included the detail that some of the Sioux's enemies would scalp the Sioux if they caught them and horrified my first-grade teacher. My mother thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard.
Art of any variety you wish you had created. asked by
thebonesofferalletters, who is fantastic and should feel fantastic.
Oh man so many books I wish I'd written. Mostly it's literary fanfiction (so to speak). Like the current book I really wish I'd written is The Song of Achilles, by Madeleine Miller. But I also wish that I had written any and all of Austen's work (did I mention that I overidentify with Jane Austen to an alarming extent?). Ah, but I'm on an Austen kick lately so that's probably why.
Anyway. Yeah. I love those books. I wish I had written them. *hugs them fervently*
in unrelated news oh my GOD this documentary on the Freemasons is reaching so much. I just. How did we get to Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper had nothing to do with the Masons. And that quote you're talking about was a) probably unrelated to the murder it was near and b) erased because the commissioner didn't want to start a rash of hate crimes against Jews. Okay? Okay.
For real though the Freemasons are just another group that wears silly hats and donates to charity. Grow up, documentarians.
This entry is crossposted at http://bookblather.dreamwidth.org/294170.html. Please comment over there if possible.