Aren't you glad I'm not a writer (Part 1 of many)

[rushin_doll]

While I was visiting the old family homestead back in May I went back through some of my old stored materials, just idly seeing what I had decided to save when I was young. And lo, I discovered some amazing things. Old papers, old sheet music, some of my earliest attempts at board game design... Simply put, I discovered some of my earliest, and

Comments

[trelali]

I did something really similar to this with the first chapter of some epic Mary Sue fanfiction I wrote when I was about twelve. It's still up on FFN, just in case anybody ever wants to go back and laugh hysterically at me. XD

What I think is really cool is (if you ignore the spelling mistakes and the passive description and the Punctuation Monster that plagues our young writing) it shows just how fucking cool we were as kids. Not everybody sets out to write epic novels before or just into their teens, and not everybody gets a chance to show it off either. We grew up creative and in a time when there was the opportunity to show that creativity off and improve on it.

Which is awesome, no matter how you look at.

And you are a writer. :D In fact, you should be one with me RIGHT NOW.

[genarti]

Ahahaha. Oh, bless! Man.

One of these years, I will manage to dig up one of my old epics. I think my favorite is the one with Xiiya (YES SERIOUSLY) the fourteen-year-old Totally Awesome mercenary who could talk to whales. I... yes.

[rushin_doll]

Had you just watched Free Willy 2?

Onto you and your whale-talking ways,
Ana

[genarti]

Ha! The age is probably about right, but no. I never saw that movie, in fact, and didn't especially care. I always like rorquals better than orcas.

...Um, which sentence shows the actual root of this, which is that I was a dork about biology in general, charismatic-large-animal bits of oceanography in specific, and I wrote a lot of school papers on cetaceans. (The CRANKY JERK character who would be won over to friendship in future chapters I never got around to writing, who was from the same culture of magically animal-talking mercenaries, could talk to wolves. I'm sure there is no hint whatsoever of what other animals wee Gen liked reading about.)

Edit: also, wee Gen had a silver necklace with a humpback whale on it, which she wore pretty much every day. The fact that Xiiya had a nearly identical one which was SYMBOLIC!!! is, naturally, pure coincidence.

[rushin_doll]

Symbolic. Of course.

...

What else could it be.

FOR REALZ,
Ana

[jumperkid]

Oh, man. This is exactly what I needed to read today. Two ironic thumbs up!

[rushin_doll]

Ironic? Are you saying that my masterpiece is less than... masterful?

Wounded and hurt and other things like that,
Ana

[jumperkid]

Ummmmm. Hey! Look over there! It's something really cool and sci-fi!!

*runs away*

[rushin_doll]

NO ONE IS FOOLED!

Totally fooled,
Ana

[sleightofhand]

Beautiful!