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Old 08-04-2010, 06:39 AM   #1
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Talking Treasures in the Old Filing Cabinet
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Okay, forum buddies, it's time to clean out the filing cabinet (or the desk drawer, or the messy bookshelf, or that box you've pushed under the futon in the office). Writing wise--please tell me what long-forgotten treasures you found?

A few months back, did clean my filing cabinet. I found a novella I would like to revise, several short stories I never sent out, just put away and a bunch of rejections slips AND some acceptance slips.
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:43 PM   #2
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I once managed to find a tenner - lain out flat - underneath a wooden pencil case. I had no recollection of when I put it there!!

Does that count.

More recently than that I found a few of the very first storys that I wrote (and forgot about) when I was first starting to consider writing - maybe stuff about 7-8 yrs ago.

That was quite a shock, just at how different my stuff is now to then (although not neccessarily better!)
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:48 PM   #3
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Thank you, Oshodisa! I wondered if anyone was going to engage here.

I have an entire folder of stuff I wrote while I took a 1 /2 year writing workshop with a published author almost 20 years ago. While I did well in the class, I see all of those stories as practice. It was really fun.

You found a ten dollar bill too? Wow!
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James, I remember carbon paper!! Sometimes it got kind of messy, especially if I accidentally rubbed the top, or tried to erase. I also used to use that old erasable paper when I typed.

When I was gong through a chest of childhood things, I found a booklet of poetry that I had written when I was ten through about sixteen, and a short story I submitted as extra credit for goofing off in a drama class, I believe. Still have them--those are old treasures that bring back many memories.
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I found some dramatic monologues I'd written, then translated into German for a class. Heh, I used to get away with writing dramatic monologues instead of critical papers all the time. I did three of them for a Romantic poetry class, another for a Shakespeare class, another for a music history seminar, and another for my Coleridge thesis.

Guess who hated writing critical essays. I guess the profs were just as bored with reading them, and so okayed the DMs.
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I found some stuff I wrote in high school that wasn't too awful (just need to get rid of that "and then it was all fake" ending... dangit.)

And then there was "Hawaiian Bob" from when I was about five. Apparently I was so proud of myself for learning to spell Hawaiian, it required a story. There's pinapples! And spaceships!
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When sorting through my dads papers after he died - does that count? A photo of my dad taken in a few days before the Battle of El Alamein, October 1942 (?). The date is on the back, but the year has faded. He is with twelve other men in his platoon - all young, all early/mid-twenties. I look at the photo and want to know what happened to the other guys. I want to write their stories - but they will have to be fiction. One chapter per man. I've done a rough plan - but it gets hard sometimes. Dad was so skinny back then!
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Every so often, when I go through old stuff, I find a story bit or whatever that I'd completely forgotten about. Invariably, I look at it and think, "Huh. This isn't nearly as bad as I'd expect."

Right now, I have an old novel-bit sitting on my hard drive that I'd like to revive someday. Also other chunks elsewhere, but none I could find without some serious computer search-fu.
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A poem I wrote when I was 8. It was actually touching, it was about a kid and God.
Precious! In my old poems, I had written one for my brother, who is 6 1/2 years younger than me. I was about 14 or 15 at the time. It was all about how he was growing up and didn't to hang out with his old sis anymore.
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I found some dramatic monologues I'd written, then translated into German for a class. Heh, I used to get away with writing dramatic monologues instead of critical papers all the time. I did three of them for a Romantic poetry class, another for a Shakespeare class, another for a music history seminar, and another for my Coleridge thesis.

Guess who hated writing critical essays. I guess the profs were just as bored with reading them, and so okayed the DMs.
Just curious- are dramatic monologues along the same lines as screenplays? Do you write screenplays now?
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I found some stuff I wrote in high school that wasn't too awful (just need to get rid of that "and then it was all fake" ending... dangit.)

And then there was "Hawaiian Bob" from when I was about five. Apparently I was so proud of myself for learning to spell Hawaiian, it required a story. There's pinapples! And spaceships!
Fun! I have always held onto writing from my childhood. Imagine this- my oldest poem I've written is about 37 years old! Paper is yellowed...folder not in the best of shape.
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When sorting through my dads papers after he died - does that count? A photo of my dad taken in a few days before the Battle of El Alamein, October 1942 (?). The date is on the back, but the year has faded. He is with twelve other men in his platoon - all young, all early/mid-twenties. I look at the photo and want to know what happened to the other guys. I want to write their stories - but they will have to be fiction. One chapter per man. I've done a rough plan - but it gets hard sometimes. Dad was so skinny back then!
Oh my gosh, of course this counts! I can't wait to read the stories you create from that photograph. I bet your dad would be proud of you.
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Every so often, when I go through old stuff, I find a story bit or whatever that I'd completely forgotten about. Invariably, I look at it and think, "Huh. This isn't nearly as bad as I'd expect."

Right now, I have an old novel-bit sitting on my hard drive that I'd like to revive someday. Also other chunks elsewhere, but none I could find without some serious computer search-fu.
My friend found an old novel she had written, in hopes of reviving it. She ended up chucking the entire thing except for one part (chapter or scene, not sure)--she wrote an entire new novel around the small part she kept. It sold.

It's good to revive old stuff and make it better.
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I recently discovered that I wrote a surprising amount of erotica/porn (think Penthouse Letters) while bored in class during grad school. How did I ever get decent grades being so distracted all the time?
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Nope. I shy away from it because I've not been able to do it in a way I like; it's either too clinical or too locker-room. My main characters are usually asexual (in the sense that they never have "encounters" and romance is not their motivation).
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Chris, it's interesting how we evolve as writers. I don't write poetry or lyrics anymore, and my writing style has improved dramatically since way back when.
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I don't keep old manuscripts, but I did find a package of carbon paper a while back. Must have been twenty-five years old. Carbon papers is what we used to make a copy of our stories when writing on a typewriter. Lay down a sheet of paper, place a piece of carbon paper on top, and then another sheet of paper on that. Roll all three into the typewriter and bang away.

It only went wrong when you goofed and placed the carbon sheet wrong side down, so the copy you made was on the back sdie of your story.
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Old 08-06-2010, 05:03 AM   #24
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I almost forgot about floppy discs! Does any computer even use those anymore? I have an entire box filled with those.
Mmmm. My mom's computer does. Though, hers is about 9 years old now, I guess.

You can buy a portable floppy drive, though. I have one somewhere. I think.
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And then there was "Hawaiian Bob" from when I was about five. Apparently I was so proud of myself for learning to spell Hawaiian, it required a story. There's pinapples! And spaceships!

I kind of want to read that......
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