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[teriwrites]

Down Memory Lane

A WIP Retrospective

Do you get a kick out of reading someone's silly, ridiculous childhood writing?

Do you occasionally enjoy taking psychic damage from reading words that have no right being strung together?

Could you use a bit of encouragement and a solid reminder that, no, your writing is Not the worst to be found on the internet?

Well, then, I invite you to join me as I take a foray into my history with creative writing. More specifically, in order to track projects with similar levels of (questionable) quality over the years, a look into the various WIPs I've written during the month of November.

Since I first started in 2011, at the tender age of 13, I've participated in and completed fourteen Novembers' worth of writing 50,000 words over 30 days. Those drafts have been stored on a variety of family computers, flashdrives, laptops, and the like over the years, and only this past December did I actually manage to track down all of them and collect them into one place.

And now, partially out of curiosity, partially out of masochism, and partially out of a genuine interest in analyzing my own writing progress across half of my life, I've decided that I'm going to sit down and read every single one of them.

Arguably, most of these I haven't read through since they were originally written. Many of them are barely more than a vague plot summary and vibes in my mind. Obviously, some of the later projects will become more familiar and their quality will increase slightly (but, remember, these are very hastily-written projects. So don't worry, there will be plenty of trashy writing to be found even up to 2024). But I - and anyone who decides to follow along on this insane project - will have to earn those nice words by living through the earlier ones lol

Some highlights of what to expect:

A bunch of superpowered teens inexplicably running across the Alabama countryside

Lucifer is Tired of all the customer complaints he receives in his day job running Hell

Area Man loses his only ally in saving his friends because he simply cannot shut up for even one second

'Bridge to Terabithia' meets 'Anne of Green Gables' meets Depression

Woman hates her famous mom up until the moment she realizes famous mom might be onto something, actually

Guy doesn't respect girl's boundaries, has sense quite literally Knocked into him (she very publicly decks him in the face)

Golden fae who swears he's just using this human girl as a tool in his quest for vengeance accidentally discovers the meaning of devotion and friendship

Student so stressed about final exams that she accidentally stops time about it

A bunch of college girls working together to craft the perfect comeback to one of their asshole exes' awful texts

Fate bullying her favorite guy by giving him exclusive access to the Worst possible foresight

And so much more!