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Old Writing??
I was looking back at some stuff I wrote back in 2nd grade, and I found this haiku:
Past the yonder clouds
Their flys numerous birds
Sky is pretty
When I was in 2nd grade, I thought I was absolutely brilliant. It's so entertaining to see how I've improved as a writer.
I'd love to see any old writing pieces you have!
- <3
submitted by Fidelity
(March 21, 2018 - 8:20 pm)
(March 21, 2018 - 8:20 pm)
Hehe, I am actually really embarrased about my old writing peices XDD I was obsessed with Fairies when I was younger, and wrote a fanfic of sorts about Pixi Hollow (Tinker Bell's world) with my own character, Wanda. It's supposed to be a pun, because Fairies use wands, get it? Well, anyways, Wanda has a pet/friend named Toodle, that is baisically a ball of puff that talks, who gets kidnapped. I wrote several sequals to the first story, and they all turned out worse than the last XD I'm probably not going to post it on here, but I've definitely come far from writing Fairy fanfics about talking balls of fluff!
(March 22, 2018 - 12:26 pm)
OMG I love that!!!!! I was obsessed with Pixie Hollow too! (Still am, frankly ;])
That's adorable though.
Ooh goodness, where do I begin? I think I started out with a story called Burn. It was about two adopted sisters--one that had fire powers and one that had ice powers. I wanted to write it from the viewpoint of Amber(the firey one) and have her turn out to be the evil one. It was so bad, I got burned (HAHA) out and never finished it.
ACTUALLY, I take that back! The first story I ever wrote was a realistic fiction story about a girl named Tara who loved to garden, but broke her hand and couldn't. That was...really bad. xD
I also wrote a whole bunch for Kyngdom, and a bunch of unfinished RP posts and...
Lots of dystopian.
(March 23, 2018 - 10:53 am)
(March 22, 2018 - 1:23 pm)
When I was in 3rd grade in school we had "writing workshop" I still have my notebook, and it's pretty embarrassing what I wrote back then.
I specifically remember one long poem that I wrote about a bunch of bugs having having a picnic together. I thought it was the best thing I ever wrote at the time. XD It is interesting to see how my writing changes over time.
(March 24, 2018 - 8:15 pm)
Oh my Gandalf, in fifth grade I wrote literally THE most cringy and awful sci-fi story I have ever seen. Like I am Number Four bad. It was about two seventh graders who for no reason discernable discover a doorway to a place that has a spaceship in it and which is on a set course to Earth. The actual teenagers who found it were supposed to be descendant of the people who originally emmigrated from Earth and they found the clues to the lost civilization that brought them there but OH MY FREAKING GOODNESS it was BAD. The characters were bland and uninspired, the plot made no sense, the descriptions were vague and it had more plot holes than I have cells in my body. I even had the two random teenagers who were on the ship get crazy key swords for no reason and OH MY GOSH UGHGHGGHGGH. I hate thinking about it because it makes me think: If I was that bad of a writer before and didn't notice it, how bad am I now?
Almost everything I wrote in that 14-page story goes against pretty much everything I hate in other books now.
Before that, I wrote some other stuff that didn't make sense or was super cringy except for a story idea that I still think wasn't a bad one. It was called Flash Drive, and it was like Harry Potter meets The Matrix even though I hadn't seen either of those movies or read all of the books before I came up with the idea.
(March 25, 2018 - 1:20 pm)
@Gen. Waffleson- "I am Number Four bad"??? You don't like IANF??? Why?????? It's so amazing.
I have the worst old writing. When I was like six I wrote a story about a girl whose doll came to life and took her to the world of fairies (heavily inspired by the Rainbow Magic books lol), and then a few years ago I wrote a Warriors fanfiction which is a little less terrible but still bad. It's actually where my name came from (I think that might be the only good part about it). Oh, I also have a failed novel that I tried to write for Camp NaNo several times, I think I called it Timing is Everything. It was about a girl whose aunt got stuck in the past due to a malfunctioning time machine and they had to go back and save her, fulfilling a prophecy along the way, yada, yada, yada. The plot isn't actually terrible, but the execution was and there were so many plot holes and it made no sense at all. The characters were underdeveloped and ugh it was awful. I actually hate just thinking about my old writing *cringefest*.
(March 26, 2018 - 11:47 am)
@Leafmist
NOOOOOOO. that book is basically the embodiment of all I hate. The plot is generic and uninspired, and the "you have to kill them in order" neat concept, but it makes no sense. Also, it makes no sense that an entire army of highly-trained alieans can be defeated by a couple people with guns and light-hands. The characters were bland, annoying, and so much like a James Patterson children's book character. They were OP, one-dimensioned, and mostly Gary Stus/Mary Sues. The dog Bernie had more personality than the main character. Honestly, I'm glad I read it because for me it's a guide of what not to make my sci-fi story like.
(March 29, 2018 - 5:48 pm)
My old writing was mainly about magical cats. And magical girls. And magical cat girls. Yeah...I have improved.
(March 25, 2018 - 1:59 pm)
I definetly had my fair share of magic cat stories...
I had the weirdest dream. When I woke up (in the dream?) I had discovered that I had become a cat! Not just a regular cat though. I had wings that stretched out before (behind?) me.
-3rd grade writing project.
(March 26, 2018 - 10:13 pm)
Ha, I have this poem that I wrote in third grade that is so utterly terrible. It's about how plants would creep under your doors at night and strangle you in your sleep? All I want to know about that is where I got that idea.
I've also had multiple (failed) diaries from when I was in first-third grade. I might post some excerpts from them if I can find them. I warn you, they're probably going to be really bad.
Yeah, I can say I've improved as a writer.
(March 25, 2018 - 2:24 pm)
Hahaha! This is a great idea, Fidelity! When I was pretty little I wrote a story about three kids that went to a fair and got in a big fight. I don't really remember the story, but I was really happy with it. I thought up some other story ideas for those kids and had a whole plan, but I never actually wrote them. I also wrote a lot of magazines and newspapers and a story based off of The Three Pigs, which I (amazingly) named...The Three Gazelles. That was cute.
All these stories are funny and inspiring...someone pointed this out to myself and some other people not long ago, that it is really important to make mistakes and come up smiling, even if you are frustrated. Okay...you might not 'come up' smiling...you might need to take a break to punch things in annoyance (like me xD), but that's not the point. The point is that all you guys are still writing, and that you tried in the first place. Don't let your mistakes get you down! I'm guessing that I'll come back to the writing I worked on today, in a few years and faint. But that's okay! The more you do the better you get, and though you may never (or you may!) get to perfection, you'll have tried and come up smiling, right?
Okay, long weird rant...moving on!
(March 25, 2018 - 7:16 pm)
When I was 9, I was writing a story called the Rebels about a secret army of kids who had epic concerts. It sucked, but it was the inspiration for a much better book I’m working on called Ferals.
In that book, I wanted it to be all kids, so “the bad guys who are like evil NASA killed everyone over eight”. I mean... jeez. And no one was even sad about that, except a character named Cherry, and that’s because her girlfriend died. Yeah. I sucked.
(March 26, 2018 - 3:42 pm)
Hoo boy, there was a lot of it.
The first two things I ever remember writing were a story about Santa Claus and a story about a fire truck. Technically I didn't write them because I was like three, so I just told them out loud and had my mom transcribe them.
I wrote a lot of sci-fi, most of which is too complicated to go into detail.
But by far the most memorable thing I ever wrote was an unfinished book in 3rd grade called "Anna's Frog." Looking back, it actually had a surprisingly coherent plot for a 9 year old, but its memorability stems from just how utterly weird some of the concepts were.
Basically, it was about this girl who moved with her family to a small town in Russia (Why Russia? Couldn't tell you.) Where she experiences increasingly strange occurences, such as finding a hidden room in a deep well and discovering a gigantic frog lives in her house (which has almost nothing to do with the main plot despite being in the title). Then she finds out her neighbor is the reincarnation of an ancient god of chaos and her schoolteacher is one of the last members of a dying race of tiger-people, and the two of them are locked in a conflict that's getting the whole town involved. Then time travel is introduced and the whole thing just spirals out of control.
I still have it, so I could post the entire thing word for word if I had any incentive to. Which I don't. So I won't.
I also attempted to draw a graphic novel in which a four-armed creature thingy has his home destroyed by these terrifying (actually terrifying. I wish I could show you the illustrations) haystack-looking monsters, and goes on a revenge quest. But I lost the pages before I could finish it and have been searching for them for the past 5+ years. Ha.
(March 27, 2018 - 2:53 pm)
Anna's Frog actually sounds really cool. Would you consider posting it?
(March 27, 2018 - 9:14 pm)