Writing about Writing - Day 4

[wayfaringwordhack]

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

I’ve been a storyteller ever since I was a little girl, but I only started writing stories in Mrs Morris’s fifth grade class. The majority of my stories were about a rich gentlemen who hired two grave robbers to procure for him corpses which he would transform into gustatory delights. Eyeball soup and brain jelly being two such delicacies. Ahem, let’s just say that someone liked grossing out her classmates.

My first “book,” published in Mrs Morris’s class, was about a girl who lived in the Sahara. The details are hazy--probably as hazy as the plot was in the story--but the gist of it was this: She had two horses, Starry Midnight, a black Appaloosa with white spots on its rump, and Scarlet Casanova, a dashing sorrel with a long, flaxen mane and tail. The girl rode Starry to the capital, with Scarlet in tow, where the prince invited her into his palace and fell in love with her. She gifted him with Scarlet Casanova.

Um. Yeah.

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[sunflower-sky.livejournal.com]

I started in fifth grade also, more despite my class than thanks to it, since it was my second year in Israel. My first "book" was called "To Keep the Peace" and it was about how my British friend Shareen and I prevented a war from breaking out between the UK and the USA by visiting the Queen and Bill Clinton (...) and basically explaining to them why it was a bad idea.

It was highly unrealistic and pretty silly overall, but for a ten-year-old it was pretty impressive :P

My first full-length novel, "Long Journey Home", was written between the ages 12-14 and told the vastly complicated and corny story of an orphan trying to find her family. Later attempts to make it better involved cutting the first third of the story off and trying to start from where she is brought to an orphanage, makes these friends and then runs away with them.

~D

[frigg.livejournal.com]

LOL
How gory cute is that?

I'm glad we didn't know each other as kids, so much imagination at one place would have bound to lead to trouble. :p

[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

She gave her true love a horse named Casanova? That does not bode well. o.O

My oldest character has been around since I was oh, 10. I still weave stories around her. :)