that was certainly an experience.

[minkhollow]

The 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.)

Comments

[minkhollow]

Except you do, 'cause you write fic for people. And you... write fic because you can (far as I know, anyway).

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Not notebooks full or anything. Er. Most of what zooms into my head zooms right back out again in a few days. Forgotten. Duckn duckn duckn duckn.

[minkhollow]

It's more like half-full notebooks, really. Because I'll start something, lose the thread, get another idea, flip forward a few pages so I've got room to finish the other thing, and start something else.
Why the ducks, out of curiosity?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Er. Because of a Jimmy Neutron episode. His parents go out to see the hit musical Ducks and his dad starts performing the score in the corner (his dad is very cool) while his mom runs through the usual Stay-Out-Of-Trouble-James-Isaac-Neutron spiel.
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

[minkhollow]

Not in the least. XD
There was a discussion on metaquotes the other day about All That descending into suckitude. It was a good show, at first.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I...don't watch that.

[minkhollow]

I did until Lori Beth Denberg left. That was quite possibly their fatal mistake.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

*amiable nod of the uninformed*

[minkhollow]

Just another example of you RPing the right person. XD

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Whenever you say that I take a quick look at the mirror to see if I've grown a moustache.
(No.)

[minkhollow]

::snerk::
Well, I'd hope you didn't fit the part in that respect.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. Me. Too.

[minkhollow]

Pobably your parents as well.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

...
...
So much fear.

[minkhollow]

::snerk::