After struggling to write 200 words last night on a new idea, I procrastinated to the 'Writing' folder on my computer, where I store everything I've ever written since obtaining a pc for my 16th birthday. I rediscovered a half completed novel that I was working on when I had no friends and hadn't discovered boys (or they hadn't discovered me yet!). I had managed to write just over 40,000 words of it! Life was hard during those teen years, but in terms of writing, I'm now scared I was at my creative peak. It was before NTL and their one million channels, before the internet (well, for me anyway), before I stereotyped myself into some peppy cheerleader to try to become popular. I obviously had a lot more free time back then - come home from school, hang out with my brother, have tea, then write from about 6 - 11pm. Anyway, on a quick perusal of this document, I found that I had left my heroines in the middle of a field, eating oranges. Now I'm thinking perhaps I should go back and actually get them to where they were going again.
Oh, and my new idea? Well, I now have my own Gothic princess to play with... :-)
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Or you could write a story about some people who have spent the last 9 years stuck in a field with only oranges to live on.
How could you do that to your characters? Such wanton neglect.
I can't even look at you any more.
Our marriage is over!
...and I'm keeping the ring.
Yo! I'd love to read it! Perhaps now as you are older and your writing style has matured, you should rewrite it. Are there any characters in it that really "grabbed" you back then or that you feel a new, emerging sympathy for?
Yeah, but a lot of it is really immature - like I wrote one character as a lesbian before I had ever met anyone with this sexual preferance, so it's very stereotypical and cliche. I think the main 3 characters I really liked, but the whole thing needs a major overhaul.
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