This was the project I tackled yesterday, going through my old notebooks and stories and trying to get them more organized. My grandma once told me, "Don't throw away your old stories. Save them." I'm so glad for that advice, because looking back on them helps me see the progress God has given me in the area of creative writing. The earliest date I can find on a story is 2012--so that's around the time I began writing stories of my own, inspired by all of the Beverly Lewis novels I started reading at that age. Can anyone guess what genre I started out writing? ;) And that date also helped me figure out. . . I've been writing for 11 years! You know you're a writer when. . . your stack of old notebooks looks like the picture above. :) I entered this project, determined to come up with some sort of outline of all the stories I have completed from then till now. This picture is missing a handful of other stories, some of which I've written but haven't had the time to print out yet.
I've completed 28 stories in the 11 years I've been writing. Out of that total, 15 are short stories. 3 of them are rewrites of older stories I adored (I loved those first characters!) And lastly, 10 of them are novel length. And besides that, there are countless stories that I started and never finished. Thanks for coming along on this unboxing with me! I hope you enjoyed it. And I pray that this encourages you in whatever gift God has given you, to keep working at it and doing it for His glory. Don't give up! "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. . ." (Ecclesiastes 9:10a)
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Jillian
3/24/2023 12:56:00 pm
This is so fun! I love going through my older stories (usually because they’re so bizarre)!! This is truly a wonderful accomplishment.
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