Comments on: The juvenilia panel

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:45:58 +0000

My writer’s group did our own little juvenilia panel (which was weird, seeing as we’re all still teens and churning out more hilarity than good writing even now). I shared a novel I wrote when I was 9 or 10, about an ORPHAN who was raised by WOLVES and had MAGIC POWERS because of it. OH YEAH! And it was really great because the entire thing consisted of a single 30-page paragraph with very little punctuation.

~Mary

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:56:05 +0000

Oh, this would be great at WisCon!

I’m flashing back to my teenage time traveling spy hero, Antron Lycra, and his wraparound shades. Oh dear.

By: the liaress

the liaress — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:32:27 +0000

That name rocks. I claim it.

Mine was about a woman in a dystopian future who was in an arranged marriage. The opening scene rocked. She was BRANDED. But she married an outsider who somehow knew enough to be able to get assigned a wife, but not enough that she only went by her “number” publicly, and actually did have a real name…

I need to dig that up. I’m all about the juvenilia panel.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:10:16 +0000

Rikhei: Yup! It was astonishing. I don’t think I stoped crying the whole way through the panel.

Camille: It was incredibly funny. Comic genius!

Cassie: Ah, yes, the lovely Mary Sue. Did she have fun on those snowy peaks? Tee hee. We really have to do a panel all of us together. It would ROCK!

By: cassie

cassie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:04:30 +0000

“I bet Cassie and Maureen have awesome juvenilia.”

I do indeed! I wrote “The Beautiful Cassandra” when I was fourteen and it has highwaymen and bandits and something about “the snowy peaks of ecstasy” in it.

By: Camille

Camille — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:40:41 +0000

There’s… kind of… a certain brilliance to “…who had left more than one of the Clan Demonus with garrote between chin and breathless breast.”

I mean — “The wench Mary, a liaress”? — I totally want to read the rest now!! *yes I’m ashamed*

Oh man, thanks for making me smile.

By: Rikhei

Rikhei — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:23:31 +0000

Honestly, I almost cried when Scott was reading the one with the mad professor guy with the swirls. It hurt.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:47:43 +0000

Hugh57: Scalzi is a coward!

Rachel Brown: It really was AWESOME.

I enjoy the adorable sub-ten stuff, which is why I read mine. But it’s the teenage juvenilia which is truly instructive.

Holly: You must! We must! We shall get together and organise something. I bet Cassie and Maureen have awesome juvenilia.

Brent: I did already here.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:41:06 +0000

Odd. You haven’t posted any of YOUR juvenilia to show us. =)

By: holly black

holly black — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:54:17 +0000

That’s awesome! And I am so ready! Theo unearthed my teenage novel, Knights of the Silver Sun. I know there have to be gems in there.

By: Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:48:56 +0000

OMG. That is AWESOME. So AWESOME that I must use big letters!

I wish I could see one of those panels. Unfortunately, I don’t think I kept any of my bad teenage writing, only my adorable 7-year-old opus, “The Adventures of Ratsy.”

By: hugh57

hugh57 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:13:56 +0000

I made this remark at the end of the panel, and it still stands: Next year, Scalzi has to read some of HIS juvenilia!!