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orcelito · 2 years

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oh god now im thinking about my Godawful hand-written “original” stories i wrote in middle school, the earliest in 5th grade. the 5th grade one was with a bunch of unicorns, & i put “illustrations” using the unicorn stickers i had. & the only ppl who really read it were my grandparents who would cheer me on, despite it sucking absolute ass (my grandma for the longest time INSISTED that i should be a writer)

and now here i am with 46k hits & 1082 kudos for a 444,666 word story

how the times have tabled

#speculation nation #sometimes it feels like i chose to focus on writing out of nowhere #woke up and decided to write a beast of a fic and i havent stopped writing since #but i HAVE been writing for a while. turns out that's what develops writing ability lol #i went a LONG time not doing any solo writing. freshman year of high school (2011) to like 2020 when i did my dnd character backstory tales #but i got really. really really REALLY into text-based rp lol #for YEARS i did hundreds of thousands of words of text rp with. varying people .#i still love rp lol but i rediscovered my love for solo writing #it really is so great. it's like ur playing dolls except u have TOTAL power over everything #i can decide i wanna do a thing and then like. it's there. there it is!#i still think it's insane that i have such a massive fic & largely . do not have notes for plotting #ive done all the plotting in my head & conversations with andi lol #and i apparently have some pretty insane memory abilities. NOT for school of course. but Entirely for my fic #it's the thing of like. Concepts. concepts are much easier to remember than Terms for me #aka why im so good at math (you learn a ruleset and then you mimic it) but so shit at history (that is nothing BUT memorization)#i have loose memory of all my fic & then a pretty comprehensive way to access those memory bits #the chapter titles r nice for titles' sake but tbh their primary usage is to make it easier for me to reference past events lol #i might not remember exactly what happens in every chapter. but the titles are Clues #so i can remember like 'ok the first time goro talks to sojiro was towards the start of futaba arc'#can remember Medjed as when that's starting. and kinda skim those chapters for when goro goes to check on stuff #and in this way i have a pretty pinpoint accurate search system based on my own memory & the records of the Entirety Of My Fic #i think anyone who has a fic over 300k words is kinda insane in some ways and that absolutely 100% counts me in #i dont think there's a single scene i dont remember. maybe not Actively but gimme a scene and i will remember it #perhaps even remember Where it happens. or be able to Find it relatively easily #all this from lil 5th grade me and my unicorn stickers story.............. yeah :')#i love thinking about how i got here . like writing is just so cool and this sure is a hobby i've committed to #throughout a LOT of my life... it's great :')#discacc shit #tagging it bc i talk so much about it slkdjfslkdfj

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