ROASTING MY WRITING FROM HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, & BEYOND!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Y'alllllll. I found some cringey self-insert fanfic, bad WIPs I thought would hit the NYTimes Bestseller list, and so much more. Let's read some of it together bahaha.
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How do you save your old writing? What's the oldest piece of writing you still have? (Do you keep it all in a tub? Bahaha. Or do you have a more sophisticated set-up?)
What's the cringiest WIP you ever wrote??
Of your old stories, which would you most like to revisit now that you're older and more experienced? How would you change them?
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This is bizarre. Watching you read writings from your 19-year-old self without remembrance, speaking fondly as if this person when you were 19(ish) is a stranger. I'm 19 now. Those writing goals for editing, rewriting, getting beta readers, publishing, etc, sound eerily similar to my own dreams right now, just with lengthier time allotted for each. Minus the movies--I could never imagine that, haha. I have lots of backlog of writing notebooks, but 10X more for sketchbooks. You have so much more to look back on, it's so cool. You've launched me into an existential crisis of sorts, thank you!
you should do a "rewriting my teen storys" challenge!! 🤍
Yes, such a great idea. Would love to see her revamp one of those old stories.
Would watch the heck outta that!
I lost my journal that had all my high school writing in it and I live in eternal fear that someone is going to blackmail me with it one day 🤣
I definitely left a long response to this but I think TH-cam ate it :( I'm so sorry you lost your journal! Totally a valid fear though bahahah.
@@KateCavanaugh lol maybe TH-cam will eat that cringy journal of mine 🤣
The bravery! Kate, I covered my eyes and cringed internally just imagining reading my old stuff to people! I have some stuff on the fanfiction website and pray no one ever finds out I wrote them! Lol bravo for this!
Bahahahah. This was weirdly cathartic and also cringe-inducing and also adorable!? Like, Young Me was trying so hard!!! She had big dreams. 😂
I'm keeping my fingers crossed your fanfic (and the rest of mine) stays buried forever bahaha.
"All shock at my existence is gone." Is that what I heard? Because that is a perfect line.
The little squeals of mortification when you were looking at the self-insert fanfic were hilarious.
Old writing always feels magnificent in its present and then in what it is now, years later, feels like rewatching a movie you thought was good as a kid, and find out its horrible. 😂
Truly amazing to see the Fictional Diary to Self insert Harry Potter fanfiction to Author pipeline in action
I would be mortified if someone else stumbled upon one of my notebooks in the attic, but tbh there is that sense of meeting an old friend whenever I open my old note books. Love from Korea.
LOVED THIS VIDEO! Oh my god. I am so glad I'm not the only one with a ton of barely written in notebooks from childhood. I still have all the notebooks my homeschool co-op writing teacher had us keep. I have some dark stuff in there; how she didn't seem concerned still baffles me. I also have my old Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic printed out and every time I look at it, I cringe. It isn't as bad as what I wrote at like, 11 or 12 when I really got into historical fiction. I didn't do any research, so it was like I just went "Eh, later I'll see if I am accurate." I literally had three notebooks full of this saga about 4 childhood friends, all the way up to a second generation. It was... a lot of nonsense and drama. But now I'm seeing how that early writing informed my current writing at the age of 30. I think big picture (often to my detriment) and love epic sagas spanning decades, but now it is horror/superheroes instead of badly written historical romance. lmao.
I've kept almost everything about my old writing in a box under my bed. Some things have been lost as old computers became unusable or just scrapped, but what I did end up printing or writing by hand has been saved as much as possible. Its fun to look back on it and remember what you were doing back then and realize how far you've come as a writer, especially when you feel like you haven't progressed enough.
I also had a car crash scene back in high school that still confuses me today 😂 And I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who wrote in class and made it look like I was doing actual work!
I had all of mine from kindergarten to 2004 and then the box was stolen so I had to start over
I wrote in class on the bus playground everywhere when I was younger
The quarters! The secret S! The psychic damage these flashbacks are giving me! 😂
Okay, but your writing in high school was exponentially better than mine was! 🤣
Lolol we are our own harshest critics! Maybe I only kept the stuff I thought was "good" at the time bahaha.
@@KateCavanaugh True! Btw, this video inspired me to check out my own old writing. I found my very first Harry Potter fanfiction, and now I'm SOBBING. 🤣
Thanks for making my day!
Aw this was so fun Kate 😁 I want to hear more about Brad cheating off the test, always fun to have an antihero. And you could always make your own movie and cast your family; and maybe the pupperiones too 🐶🎥
2:49 😅😂 when you cliffhang yourself! Especially when you can't remember the next or you remember but you wish you wrote it at that time.
Oh man. I know how that feels rereading things you wrote years ago, sometimes you feel like, "This doesn't make sense, gosh I sucked," and other times, "wow I wrote that?! I am awesome!" Must be how editors feel looking for the next best thing. LOL.
This is very much how my notebook collection looks like from school. Random stories on random pages. Small ideas everywhere and bouncing from thing to thing. And yes, I run into things all the time I cannot remember writing.
I cringe so bad at my old writing too. 😂😂😂
About age 8, I wrote the oldest story I can remember writing. Based upon David Bowie's song; Star Man. An alien came to Earth and rescued all the children from school. I was never a fan of school. Sadly all copies of the tale have long since been lost to the passing years. But I think we get the idea of how great this story was; aged 8.
I have a tub just like that one and it looks exactly the same, filled with unfinished notebooks, binders, and loose papers 😂 I really enjoy going through it. It's a great reminder that I always had good ideas and potential, but also just how much better I've gotten as a writer 😊
I love stuff like this. I wrote a whole self insert sci Fi series about an alien invasion when I was in second/third grade that I still have and look back on fondly. I mostly wrote fanfiction as a teenager and then went through some really horrendous life events and lost the ability to write at all until a couple years ago. Now all my work is original and makes me so happy.
What I notice is not that my stories evolve, but that old stories forgotten root their way subconsciously into new ones that are better and actually fit. It's like my brain always has the story pieces it's just looking for the right puzzle.
Aaah I’m late but I keep all my old notebooks in an antique trunk my grandma gave me (it’s really beautiful, the wood is glossy and there’s a beautiful flower painted in muted rosy tones on the lid), which feels a little irreverent because it’s mainly self-insert fanfiction.
I'm living for the little squeaks and squeals as you find old gems!
Your poem about rocky road actually made me laugh so hard that I had a coughing fit. Incredible stuff.
It's so fun that you can look back on your old stories and enjoy roasting them.😄 Sometimes I'm sad that I don't have much in the way of really old writing to revisit. My only attempts at writing as a kid was two one-paragraph-each story attempts that I'm pretty sure I erased soon after. All other stories I kept in my head and they were mainly self-insert stuff. There were also two high school short fiction writing assignments that I wish I could reread just to see what they were like, but I don't know where they are😔, and a graded assignment is different than writting for yourself. I didn't truly start writing my own stories until my early 20's and since I'm the same age as you, I don't feel separated enough from them yet to roast them. I mainly just want to edit them.😆
This is really fun! Also your talking about handwriting evolving made me remember my phase of writing 'that' kind of 'a', AND THEN YOU MENTIONED EXACTLY THAT 18:15 I had the exact same experience of forcibly changing my handwriting because I saw someone write 'a's like 'that' and thought it was cool (though for me that phase lasted a few years HAHA)
I recently cleaned out the loft at my parents house... and I found bins full of folders and notebooks containing my CSI Miami fanfiction from college, my 7th Heaven and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman fanfiction from Middle and High School, my Star Wars stories from high school and college, my old diaries, old assignments. Some of it was cringe and bad. But I was pleasantly surprised by some of it. I actually used to post CSI Miami fanfiction on a fanfiction forum just for the show and they got better engagement than the stuff I post occasionally on Wattpad...
I have done this before with old notebooks. Some of the stories come right back to me and others are like where was I trying to go with this? It has caused me to write my plot notes and outlines super detailed now so that if I leave a story and come back years later I'll actually (hopefully) know what is going on. One of the ones I'd like to revisit is actually a Star Wars/Andromeda fanfiction. But that's one of the ones that I have no idea what I was doing with it since it also randomly has Harry Potter characters involved. It's probably the cringiest even though I still have fond memories of it and would like to see what I could do with it 20 years later.
Saving this to watch later but the title…I’m here for it. 😂
omg that’s the best thing🤣 I read my doc comments from years ago and laugh with my siblings 😂😂😂
Omg! I love that you got your siblings involved!! Maybe I should get my brothers to do a dramatic reading of some of mine bahaha.
Hello this reminded me of tons of my old manuscripts makig me nostalgic
Such a fun experience to watch you go through your old writing. I was laughing so hard at your confused face reading some of your old work. I can totally relate to the barely used notebooks. Heck, that is something I still do to this day, though I am better at eventually using all of the pages in them now. That random brainstorming note reminds me so much of my own as well, and oftentimes I go back to read them later and find myself stumped as to what I was trying to say. I don't have a lot of my old writing sadly, but I do have pretty much everything written from university (20 years ago) onward and man some of that stuff was terrible but fantastic in it's own way.
My senior year of high school I wrote “musicals”. I don’t write music, so I used songs from broadway musicals, Disney, pop songs, etc. There’s a couple of those ideas that I’m now planning as actual stories instead of musicals. Some characters names and ideas have changed, but I put the songs from the “musical” idea on the playlists.
Hey Kate, I hope your day is going well. God bless, take care + happy writing. 🙂
Thank you!! I hope you have a great day too!
14:16 Great thumbnail moment!!
Hello Kate This reminded me tons of my old manuscripts.It made me nostalgic
Awww, yay!! Yes, super nostalgic! It also just made me so happy to see how long I've loved writing. :) hope you get a chance to go over your old manuscripts soon and feel the same way!
Thanks, Kate! This is my favorite kind of video.
Stop, that little S drawn in the corner just smacked me back into middle school so hard.
Just Kate, writing a Tale of Two Cities essay for a decade.
This was so much fun. You made me laugh out loud. LOL So glad you're back. I hope your vacation was totally wonderful. Vacations. :) Welcome home.
Damn, I remember when I did this; my first ever two attempts at novels from 15+ years ago. It was nice to see that I have improved since then
Dibs on first!
LOLOL! You win, Regina! 🏆💛
This took an immense amount of bravery and I thank you for it - I could never 🤣 I have a ton of notebooks/random papers that I need to collect up and put in a tote. I’m convinced that one day my kids and grandkids will find my old writings and wonder what the heck I was thinking 😆
oh my GOSH I LOVE THIS haha I honestly wish I kept more of my writing from when I was younger. it's so cool that you have a whole box of old stuff! I have writing from when I was as young as 12 years old, but I know I definitely had a ton of notebooks from when I was a kid (like 10 y/o and younger) that I wish I could look back on now 😭
Cool that you're able to look back into the past. I lost quite a bit of my old manuscripts. Two were actually good. But I would've had to rewrite them anyways. You're being so brave and going through our older pieces of work are good ways to see the improvement over the years.
When my laptop in high school bit the dust, my dad saved the hard drive. I should see if my old word docs are still around. Oh, the cringe!!
Yes I have a tub of notebooks that have all my old writing in them, yes I have stories that I started at as young as 8 years old that changed over time into better stories. The most notable is the mage chronicles: the lost mage princess which originated as a story about two twins who were orphaned and took in by a family of like 12 kids and a father. That one changed soooo much, to the point that I published it and have the second book in the series getting published soon.
Oh my 😆 I found some old documents on my laptop I’m contemplating on reading it or not 😂
YESSSS, do it, do it, do it!! You'll be nostalgic, horrified, and amazed all at once bahaha.
All of my terrible self-insert fan fiction is out there...somewhere...because I grew up in the online age.
lol "Kate Cavanaugh" is now "Kate Cavanaugh Writes" AAAAAGGGHHH IM DYING
I remember writing a cat one in kindergarten but my husband uncle took my box with younger years
My own self insert fan fiction, for my eyes only, is still a comfort read for me cause it holds up and still gets me feeling that way. I have to say the Episode story I wrote when I was 14-15 is also still really good so it's kind of fun to see if you still stand behind who you were back when you were younger. But as for my actual books, oh yikes I don't want to go back to the first drafts like ever. The writing is so juvenile, the plot chaotic and the characters change personalities every chapter. But you can't get better until you go through the duds, right?
Not gonna lie I also want to dig out my tub of old writing and look it over. Maybe I will.
YESSS DO IT!!
Oh no. I did this recently. The utter pain of it.
Will you do video on finishing NanoWrimo?
YES! It'll be coming soon, just lots of footage to edit! :)
I bet Stanley Kubricks' archives are exactly like this.
I have a pile of papers from my youth that I still have and would like to type up. Even if it is only for my own roasting.
Its not bad honestly. Could use cleaning and such, but I feel like there is a lot of promise in your old work.
please make video writing like Victoria Aveyeard, Red Queen author novel :*
Oh dear, this looks a lot like my current system of organisation.
Now we have to know who the redhead is o.o
RIGHT!? WHERE ARE YOU REDHEAD!? (Whoooo are you redhead?!)
@@KateCavanaugh hee. the mystery of it all! But seriously, I do have almost exactly the same container of 'creative projects' it was both lovely and triggering watching you go through it lolol