Understood backwards, lived forwards
Jun. 20th, 2021 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealMore in the vein of this post: I recently saw a call for submissions for a site that seems more...literary than a lot of the speculative stuff I do, but also kind of humorous in a way that I think I'd be a good fit for. Both in terms of length and "how speculative is this," I decided I would rather write something new than submit an existing piece, so I wrote something that's vaguely time-travel and vaguely "it was all a dream."
But anyway, one of the characters is essentially a younger version of myself. At a time in life when I felt upset and affected by things going on, and was just starting to realize "writing stories based on these experiences helps me come to terms with them, or put my own spin on them." And it was very much juvenilia of the type that would make me cringe now! But being able to look back on that and see how I'm the same person in some ways but more self-aware in others has hopefully (key word) made me able to write with more distance/"mature" humor. That's the idea anyway.
But anyway, one of the characters is essentially a younger version of myself. At a time in life when I felt upset and affected by things going on, and was just starting to realize "writing stories based on these experiences helps me come to terms with them, or put my own spin on them." And it was very much juvenilia of the type that would make me cringe now! But being able to look back on that and see how I'm the same person in some ways but more self-aware in others has hopefully (key word) made me able to write with more distance/"mature" humor. That's the idea anyway.
