I don't know how I stumbled across this stack, very different influences I think, from the stuff I write, but man! I found a lot of parallels just in the rhythm of this piece. It's also just such a cool testament to the genre I'm almost tempted to go read loads more of it! Great work haha
It's always the "weirdest" teachers who support the creative children the most. I had a smiliar one like this in high school. But everyone hated her because she was "too quirky". Instead of hating her, though, I became friends with her and to this day I still cannot stop thinking about her and the way she influenced my writing. I started a printed magazine and she supported it, she told me about several books and comptetitions that changed my perspective, and so on.
Just like you had a Mr. B, I had my Mrs. B (actually, her surname starts on B, or at least did before she married a rich german guy and fled our country, lol).
So, let's continue writing and on top of that, we can make our former teachers proud!
i gotta say i resonated with this very deeply, only my stopping point wasn't a random lady at a competition, but my mom 🥲
i remember once writing a short story about Tom Riddle visiting one of his classmates to interrogate him bcs of something, who knows anymore, and then murdering him. it was really fun, but my mom just laughed when i showed her 💀
so, i haven't finished a single thing since that day that wasn't a paper for school (god bless my high school English teacher for always encouraging me with those tho). but when it came to fiction, i would always start but lose interest because i don't wanna be laughed at again. and now here i am, struggling to write coherently even for those school essays, lol.
sorry for the rant, i love this piece and hope you get to give that signed book to your teacher one day!! ❤️
Zuzi, I am hereby officially adopting* you and as your new mom, I will be proud of everything you're going to write from now on! (Also applies retroactively. That short story sounds awesome!)
*adopting in spirit, not financially, I haven't made any money on my non-existent werewolf erotica writing yet, but when I do, this part of the contract will be renegotiated.
I don't know how I stumbled across this stack, very different influences I think, from the stuff I write, but man! I found a lot of parallels just in the rhythm of this piece. It's also just such a cool testament to the genre I'm almost tempted to go read loads more of it! Great work haha
It's always the "weirdest" teachers who support the creative children the most. I had a smiliar one like this in high school. But everyone hated her because she was "too quirky". Instead of hating her, though, I became friends with her and to this day I still cannot stop thinking about her and the way she influenced my writing. I started a printed magazine and she supported it, she told me about several books and comptetitions that changed my perspective, and so on.
Just like you had a Mr. B, I had my Mrs. B (actually, her surname starts on B, or at least did before she married a rich german guy and fled our country, lol).
So, let's continue writing and on top of that, we can make our former teachers proud!
i gotta say i resonated with this very deeply, only my stopping point wasn't a random lady at a competition, but my mom 🥲
i remember once writing a short story about Tom Riddle visiting one of his classmates to interrogate him bcs of something, who knows anymore, and then murdering him. it was really fun, but my mom just laughed when i showed her 💀
so, i haven't finished a single thing since that day that wasn't a paper for school (god bless my high school English teacher for always encouraging me with those tho). but when it came to fiction, i would always start but lose interest because i don't wanna be laughed at again. and now here i am, struggling to write coherently even for those school essays, lol.
sorry for the rant, i love this piece and hope you get to give that signed book to your teacher one day!! ❤️
Zuzi, I am hereby officially adopting* you and as your new mom, I will be proud of everything you're going to write from now on! (Also applies retroactively. That short story sounds awesome!)
*adopting in spirit, not financially, I haven't made any money on my non-existent werewolf erotica writing yet, but when I do, this part of the contract will be renegotiated.
Phenomenal. Welcome to Substack. Luckily, that mean, myopic judge is not here. You can write whatever you want. Best wishes.