<– Previous Comic Next Comic –>
<– Previous Comic Next Comic –>
Seriously. I thought it would be hilarious to read over my first novel and giggle over how adorably incompetent I was. Let’s just say there was nothing cute about it whatsoever. It was blisteringly, depressingly, horrifyingly bad, and to be honest if I’d read a freshman work of this quality by a teen today, I’d be tempted to say “this person has no future in writing.” Happily, even the most embarrassingly awful writers can become accomplished novelists if they practice (and, as always, if they keep reading). I’m living proof. I think.
The proper reaction is “Oh, look at how much I have improved!”
It may be exaggerated for the comic, but I don’t think anyone can dictate what anyone else’s “proper reaction” ought to be.
Yes, you are right. My apologies.
Very true that I am grateful to be THAT much better than when I started, though. . . .
I feel the same way thinking back at some of the fictional stuff (plots, characters, societies) I came up with as a teen. I don’t have them written down in their entirety, but I remember how they were supposed to go.