Oy vey

So one of the things that I end up doing whenever I come home is rereading old stories that I wrote back in the day. Its kind of interesting to like, look back and see how my writing has been influenced by various things. Sure, I can see where various plots and characters, etc, came from, and I probably even realized it then, but its more the style that is getting to me. The super early stuff, from like elementary school and middle school, sounds like a Babysitter's Club book, especially the stories written in the first person. As depressing as that was to realize, it may have actually gotten worse when I looked at the stuff that I wrote in high school. While it still had the Babysitters Club-esque feel to it, there was also a distinct Danielle Steel undertone. Its pretty depressing, especially because I can barely stand reading some of it because its so wretched. I truly hope that my more recent stuff is better.

Oh yeah. Its also painfully obvious which stories were pre-Melrose Place, and which were post.