I think that some of my most unique ideas that I’ve ever come up with of all time, were from the old days back when high school called English classes “Language Arts.”
Every year when school ends I’d save every assignment ever done and store it in my closet. I’ve made quite the collection now, and it seemed like then was a good a time as any to crack open my fortmonths worth of academic treasure.
Some of the more interesting doodles I’ve found were from Biology of my freshman year, when the cute girl who sat to my left (Cydnee, for those that want to know) actually talked to me. Seeing all that random shit we drew together brought back some strange memories of what it was like to actually talk to a girl without getting all awkward and weird, since those were in fact some of my most awkward years in life. It still took most of high school and even the first year of college to really get shit like that through my thick head.
Even further back in 7th grade, I found this 6 panel comic I drew up for L.A. in Mr. Black’s class. I’m so amazed at how much anime and science fiction influenced every idea I had. I’m not 100% sure what influenced me at the time, but my best bet would be on either some variation of the Gundam series, and/or Harry Potter, or even some bizarre combination of both.
I wrote a short story not too long after that about lizards and superpowers and a dystopian future. It’s still one of the writings I pride myself most in. A couple of years later, my guess being 2006, I started writing a sequel to my original work. I must say, looking back on it now, some of the scenes are almost carbon copies of a completely random anime, or from one of the Harry Potter books. I think it reads really well, but then again I’m no scholar. I’m attempting to bring most of it back and put it on a more contemporary writing scale, where I’m no longer constantly borrowing ideas to put them to paper. I’m excited to get started again, but I’m lacking influence and having doubts of whether or not a world of “lizards with human-like features” could get a running start again in my mind. Especially after a nearly 4 year hiatus of creative thought processes. I’ll try to copy what I actually had written down from back then and post it up before the end of the year (which isn’t too long from now either…).
My junior year of high school I transferred into an English class down from the “honors” version that I was registered. We were supposed to keep a journal of sorts for the day, writing for about five minutes to warm up our underused writing muscles and our empty brains. I remember sitting there looking at a half filled sheet of paper mindlessly mapping out consonants and vowels just to get the credit that I’d written nonstop for the full five minutes. Some of it was hidden gold looking back at it now. I’d wrote about feelings for girls, or ambitions I had at the time, or how I actually felt about life and all the tumultuous shit that happens when you’re a junior in high school. It’s such a strange feeling. I can’t explain how amazing it is to see that growth and know that it wasn’t planned. Me being a hermit with every assignment and project let me find out how much I’ve really grown since then. I’m so proud of myself, you really have no idea.
Writing has been such an important part of my life, and music has been too. I wonder what it’d be like if I combined the two?
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