that was certainly an experience.
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minkhollowThe second batch of notebooks was saner by far than the first. And mostly from the last couple years.
Dad got home while I was going through the dreck!pile. He asked what was in the garbage bag, so I held up the notebook I was going through as an example. After that he made note of the amount of papers I'd torn out of notebooks, and said something about don't I want to keep the evolutionary stages for future reference?
...No, not really. Scares me that I ever wrote like that and completely validates the thank-you note to the people at the Daria board who got me past that.
Besides, I'm keeping one example: My first-ever fanfic. It's Dexter's Lab, and it's so much crap I'll never post it anywhere - not to mention I'm glad I never did - but it's a first. Keeping it for precisely that reason.
Most of the things I threw out never made it past formative stages and half-written-ness (or something). Some of it was the very early Dariafic wot I Will Not Speak Of, and in a few cases the last remaining copies of said fic. Such a relief to finally get rid of it.
Also turned up a bunch of notes from things like history and physiology - could be useful for plot things, you never know - and a little notebook I used for the exress purpose of catching plot bunnies. None of what's in there is really very connected. Or of much use, as it stands. XD But I'm hoping to revive the thing - only ever used about three pages.
Oh, and I found the script to the one-act I was in sophomore year. Put it in a folder and on one of my bookshelves. Am out of shelf space, with ten or eleven Pratchett books (three hardcovers), the Rolls-Royce and Bentley book (still haven't had a good look through that), and the Amphigorey yet to go in them. Note to self: Clear out some of the kids' books for day-care. (But not the good stuff. You know which that is.)
Dad got home while I was going through the dreck!pile. He asked what was in the garbage bag, so I held up the notebook I was going through as an example. After that he made note of the amount of papers I'd torn out of notebooks, and said something about don't I want to keep the evolutionary stages for future reference?
...No, not really. Scares me that I ever wrote like that and completely validates the thank-you note to the people at the Daria board who got me past that.
Besides, I'm keeping one example: My first-ever fanfic. It's Dexter's Lab, and it's so much crap I'll never post it anywhere - not to mention I'm glad I never did - but it's a first. Keeping it for precisely that reason.
Most of the things I threw out never made it past formative stages and half-written-ness (or something). Some of it was the very early Dariafic wot I Will Not Speak Of, and in a few cases the last remaining copies of said fic. Such a relief to finally get rid of it.
Also turned up a bunch of notes from things like history and physiology - could be useful for plot things, you never know - and a little notebook I used for the exress purpose of catching plot bunnies. None of what's in there is really very connected. Or of much use, as it stands. XD But I'm hoping to revive the thing - only ever used about three pages.
Oh, and I found the script to the one-act I was in sophomore year. Put it in a folder and on one of my bookshelves. Am out of shelf space, with ten or eleven Pratchett books (three hardcovers), the Rolls-Royce and Bentley book (still haven't had a good look through that), and the Amphigorey yet to go in them. Note to self: Clear out some of the kids' books for day-care. (But not the good stuff. You know which that is.)
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Date: 2004-01-17 09:27 pm (UTC)I begin considering anything I've done 'old' after I've looked it over, say, three times. The first time I feel pleased-ish. The second time I see some things I don't like but can deal with. But by the third time argh argh arghity.
This is one of those deficiencies I like to label 'artistic temperament' because it's much more flattering than 'anal retentiveness.'
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Date: 2004-01-17 09:43 pm (UTC)Some of it's still good. But most of it was... yikes. And usually when I look back at stuff I still think it's half-decent.
I probably threw out most of the 'if I write as small as I possibly can I'll get more stuff in one notebook' phase. Even that stuff was better than the really early notebooks.
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Date: 2004-01-17 09:47 pm (UTC)*is grateful for lack of notebooks with which to induce "ARGH"ing fits*
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Date: 2004-01-17 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-17 10:10 pm (UTC)I even found reusable space in a few of them. (Though I somehow managed to overlook a whole BUNCH of stuff in one of them. Don't know how I did that.)
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Date: 2004-01-17 10:11 pm (UTC)I dunno; I don't really write anything down.
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Date: 2004-01-17 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-17 10:27 pm (UTC)ckn duckn duckn duckn.no subject
Date: 2004-01-17 10:40 pm (UTC)Why the ducks, out of curiosity?
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Date: 2004-01-17 10:44 pm (UTC)And the dad is chicken-flapping his arms and chanting, "duck duck duck duck. Duck duck duck duck. Duckduckduckduckduck(etc)" until the mom finishes. And then he asks if 'Jimbo' wants them to re-perform it for him when they get back. (No.)
Are my three younger sibling induced TV habits showing? XD
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Date: 2004-01-18 10:12 am (UTC)There was a discussion on
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Date: 2004-01-18 01:24 pm (UTC)(No.)
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Date: 2004-01-18 01:39 pm (UTC)Well, I'd hope you didn't fit the part in that respect.
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Date: 2004-01-18 01:47 pm (UTC)...
So much fear.
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:05 pm (UTC)