Old Fic, New Reviews

[marenzi]

My laptop is flying across the country as I write this. Three weeks and counting. :/

You know what's really surreal? Getting new reviews on ff.net stories you wrote in seventh grade. Honestly, I can't even remember what they're about, but it seems like a few of them were pretty popular? IDEK. Two were set in Tamora Pierce's Tortall and another was a workaround retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

Was anyone else a Tamora Pierce fan? Oh man, I remember pretty much worshiping her in middle school. And my TP fanfic was so well planned out! I had one insanely long fic that I was so certain could be a novel - it was an AU of Raoul's daughter, the first girl to join the King's Own. I just found an entire notebook of unposted scenes from that fic.

In the same folder, I found fifty pages of a fantasy novel I wrote for my eighth grade English final project. It's only the first few chapters, but my storyboard (seriously, all of this was very well planned!) had all sorts of racial and social commentary and I had a rather beautiful twist at the end to defy all the fantasy norms. It's weird to admit that it wasn't entirely terrible. I might even have continued it, if I hadn't lost all interest in fantasy.

Does this happen to anyone else? Getting reviews on a fic from a fandom that's so old, you don't even remember what it's about? It's kind of amusing and flattering, that someone actually went back and read it.

I need a writing icon. I think I have over twenty tabs open for Big Bang research right now.

Comments

[balefully.livejournal.com]

\o/! TAMORA PIERCE! I was obsessed with the Daine books. DAINE/NUMAIR OTP.

[beckaandzac.livejournal.com]

Every once in while, someone finds the first story I wrote in Harry Potter, and even though I wrote it when I was 19 (we had no internet when I was in 7th grade, thank GOD), I still cringe a little.

[marenzi.livejournal.com]

YES THAT. Those books were pretty much my life back then - I think I shipped Daine/Numair & Alanna/George & Kel/Joren (don't even ask, okay, they had ~*sexual tension) and pretty much thought Jon was a dick.

[marenzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem with being part of the internet generation is that it's ALL out there. Especially the things which should have otherwise gotten lost a long, long time ago!

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

I HEART TAMORA PIERCE TO THIS VERY DAY. I went to see her about... two years ago when she did a signing and I FELL IN LOVE all over again. She's fabulous and wry and witty and... I LOVE HER. I devoured her books when I first found them and pounce on every new one with the same fervour.

[beckaandzac.livejournal.com]

I remember reading fic at other people's houses and thinking, Man, I wish I could post mine, it's so much better than this! But now I'm really glad I didn't.

[marenzi.livejournal.com]

I REALLY want to reread all of her books this summer, just because. I was so heartbroken when she announced that she wasn't coming to the west coast!