Come laugh at my 15 year old self

[bogwitch]

I promised frimfram I'd post this before Christmas, but I never got round to it.

I was clearing out a cupboard and found a load of stories I wrote for school. They're all crap, but this one though gave me a bit of a shock considering the last chpater of the WIP. So for a laugh...

Comments

[fredsmith518]

Yeah for encouraging teachers:)

[bogwitch]

Not exactly steering me away from the doom and gloom, was he? I was such a goth. :)

[fredsmith518]

No, he really wasn't...but he was encouraging you to think further out there...that's good I think, praise for what you'd done and a suggestion to go further.

[bogwitch]

How little did he know.

[lillianmorgan]

Gosh, you had the creepy-writing talent even then. Wow.
I liked how the teacher talked to you at 'his level', and didn't talk down to you. That was nice.

[bogwitch]

What's most creepy to me is that I can see that I've written pretty much exactly the same thing 17 years later, and I don't even remember writing this at all.

Mr C was a very good, and slightly strange treacher. I'm sure he'd agree.

[frimfram]

Wow, you were obviously born to it! I love the excited chatter.

That's actually a very thoughtful comment from your teacher, too. Ours used to just tick.

[bogwitch]

I'm very disturbed that I haven't changed that much!

I think 'superb' was stretching it a bit, but then how much crap did he have to read every day? Gods knows what he really thought about my dreadful poetry though.

[myfeetshowit]

You say you're disturbed that you haven't changed but believe me you have. Authors recycle ideas and themes and descriptions all the time. They try something and then rework because they don't feel they got it right the first time. You are writing based on similiar stream-of-consciousness feelings.

Your technique on the other hand has improved considerably. The feelings you are conveying have the same feel but you are delivering them with more clarity and elegant style.

All the difference that counts.

I'm trying to get the chance to re-read Twelve Days. I may have to wait and read it all in a chunk.

[bogwitch]

>>>Your technique on the other hand has improved considerably.

I should hope so!

Strange I should find this now though.

[calove]

Good heavens! The seeds of greatness were clearly sown early.

Intense stuff for a teenager - did you panic anyone?

[bogwitch]

Have no idea, I didn't remember the story at all

[calove]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

*hic*

I've had rather a lot of champagne.

[bogwitch]

I am stoney sober. The parents and I nearly just went to bed.