Comments on: Juvenilia

By: When I was young, I thought… « That, Which

When I was young, I thought… « That, Which — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:51:53 +0000

[...] January 2008 in My Writing Tags: songs Inspired by Justine Larbalestier’s post on juvenilia, here is the full text of a song I wrote at the age of… who knows. Something early. [...]

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:39:26 +0000

Have fun!

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:21:31 +0000

That was a great panel. Listening to your early work and finding that it was just as terrible as my own early work was inspiring. All your panels were fantastic but this one was the funniest.

By: emily

emily — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:25:10 +0000

~~unicorns~~!!!!! sorry, i think you wont be moderating for a while, so i just had to.

By: Dave H.

Dave H. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:46:42 +0000

In the meantime, we’re off to snowy Detroit, for the fun and laughter of ConFusion.

We managed to hold off the snow for you … sorry we couldn’t do anything about the brutal temperatures.

By: Mahek

Mahek — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:42:20 +0000

My first story or novel was called the tales of Cat and Dog.

It was about a cat called cat and a dog called dog. The longest sentence was 9 words long!!

By: _iris_

_iris_ — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:22:10 +0000

all my really early stories were basically much less skilled copies of whatever my favorite book was at the time. i’m much better at coming up with ideas now. *smugly smiles*
brain monkeys help, i must admit!

By: dami

dami — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:49:51 +0000

i went through a couple of years where the basic plot was: i kill everyone around me on purpose/by accident, i get hurt badly, i commit suicide. i always wondered what the parent/teacher interviews were like around then

By: serafina zane

serafina zane — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:22:24 +0000

when i was in fourth grade i wrote a story about a girl who got turned into a fairy for ill-explained reasons and the sweetness of it scared me.
then i stopped writing for several years.
then i wrote a story about a paranoid, antisocial, shuffled-around foster kid who sort of had wings. all it’s backstories had massacres and this really sweet guy with purple eyes was sort of stalking her.
then i started writing about a girl who got turned into a vampire by a guy she met while buying some chinese food.
and then i got most of the suck out and started a story that was actually good. the story of Serafina Zane…

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:23:00 +0000

none of my stories from when I was younger had middles, I would have a beginning then a little bit then an ending equaling out to be about two pages long. I also way overused the word had.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:41:52 +0000

i fervently hope that none of my juvenilia ever sees the light of day. i once wrote a story in which the main character was an artichoke. eep.

By: Kadie-Wa

Kadie-Wa — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:29:03 +0000

Aw, cute little kid writing!

When I was little, I had that thing where when ever you would write something It would be backwords…that went on until I was in 2nd grade.

The stuff that you actually could read, was crap. Mainly because I couldn’t even spell baby when I was a fourth grader.

Thankfully I can spell better then that now!

By: kim

kim — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:41:42 +0000

i don’t really write good now. hate to think of what is was like when i was younger.

since the first grade all of my english teachers would keep a portfoilo of what we wrote. the year before we wnet to jr. high we had to clead it out. i almost dies my writing was so bad.

my brother wrote a story i was so cute may be i can post it how he wrote the words.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:12 +0000

I won awards when I was 11. I think the story holds up –

In a different galaxy there is life. Life is different from what we know. It is what we call the Space Age.

I know. Hold the applause.

By: _iris_

_iris_ — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:49:46 +0000

hee hee
when i’m twenty i’ll look back in horror at the terrible things i wrote. at the moment i think they are plain genius!!!

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:36:20 +0000

one of my earliest “books” (for young authors, in first grade) was about those un-nameable creatures that are something like horses.

By: Mahek

Mahek — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:58:10 +0000

My writing up until I was twelve was plain crap. My vocabulary was poor and i would repeat the same word nearly ten times in each paragraph. I’m 15 now and my writing is considerably better but not at the point I would like it to be. Hopefully, I will be better when I’m a little older at least!

By: stacy

stacy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:24:06 +0000

Ha! I found a folder a while back of stories I didn’t even remember writing. I didn’t seem to grasp the ideas of “plot” and “action,” myself. Nothing ever happened in my stories. One was about a girl who was rich enough that she had her own car and could eat at McDonald’s every day. My only attempt at fantasy involved people riding horses in the forest. Nothing else. Just riding, riding, riding… I’m sure I made similar sounds when I found that folder.

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:38:08 +0000

*sheepish* When I was around fifteen, I once used the word “nothing” seven times in a “dramatic” sentence. “There was nothing the could do!!!” (That would be the expurgated version.)