First Few Lines - writing evolution, i guess?

INSPIRED BY YONGHARU21!!!

I should be editing some songs right now but im totally somehow not in the mood for it soooooooooo
I'd rather be embarrassing myself and show you how my writing style's changed throughout the years by providing you a few starting sentences of all the stand-alone stories (so not those that are in a oneshot collection) that I have here in AFF.

HERE GOES NOTHING [ps my commentary will be green]

1. Careful what you wished for //2012-Super junior//
(it's actually in draft because i'm so embarrassed about it but well why not)

Let me tell you, a crazy and magical story of mine. If you didn’t believe this, I can’t blame you… because even I still have a hard time believing this entire experience. So, it all started at a variety show filming…

“At the count of three, you, kick the ball. And you, catch it. Okay? All ready? Get back to your position!” PD-nim said as he pointed his finger to Kyuhyun and me.

[i physically shriveled]


2. Forward unto dawn //2013-Super junior//
(this story won third? i think? on a writing competition and after rereading it today i was like 'but how')

“Hana! What are you doing? Come in!” Mirae’s voice rang through the cold December air.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” I replied absent-mindedly with my gaze still fixated to the old make shift swing.

[like i said, but how. BTW i just noticed the trend of me prefering to do a first person POV in the past]


3. In between words //2013-EXO//

“Pa please let me do this job!”

“No, Eve.”

“But you know how I feel about them!”

“And that’s what makes it a problem.” He said as he pointed at the sofa inside his office room, “Just sit there until all of this is taken care of, okay?”

[I have a feeling there's a grammatical error in and around the last bit of dialogue but what can i do i at grammar even now]


4. Glass House //2013-Super junior//

He was late.

It was the first day of orientation and he was late.

“Great,” he muttered under his breath when he saw the school field was already filled with neat rows of kids, “You up on your first day, Sungmin. Great.”

[omg i no longer write in first person POV. and once upon a time this story was my pet project which, of course, got abandoned halfway thru]


5. God of mischief //2014-Super junior//

It was all because of her, because of that damn girl called Chaeyoon. She was the one who dragged me into this mental torture filled with 'could we's and 'what if's. Everything that had happened to me, my financial distress, my unanswered longing, and more recently, my torn up life, would not happen if she didn’t say that words. Those words that were the root of all evil.

[omg the comeback of first person POV. and see how in the beginning i still write about the subject matter of 'fan meets idol' wow i'd like to congratulate myself for successfully growing as a fangirl.]


6. Kitchen (en)counter //2015-Red velvet//

"Babe, I'm home," the front door opened noisily, followed close by a loud jingling of Irene tossing her huge handbag to the sofa across the room. She missed. That's why it was so noisy.

"Wendy?" She called out when there was no response for her callings, "anybody home?"

[wow never realized i wrote kitchen encounter TWO YEARS AGO. really?? i feel old now wow it feels like yesterday... btw my first big break as a writer and where i gained the age old tip "if you want subscriber, write "]


7. Neverland: reprised //2015-Red velvet//

There were knocks on her window.

Wendy was trying her best to get some slumber time when the wind decided to make her window its drumming practice ground.

[see me apply the age old tip from above LOL]


8. the Ice cream parlour //2015-Red velvet//

"Okay now, before you start, I'll tell you some notable rules you need to know when working in RV creamery.
One. Don't forget to change the dipping water every hour, or every 30 minutes during lunch rush.
Two. NEVER your fingers in front of customers. You'll be surprised how often the urge occurred in your mind.
Three. Follow the greeting guidelines, and please smile. Please.
Lastly, when you hear weird noises from inside the cool room never, I tell you, never open it."

[ ICE CREAM PARLOUR IS TWO YEARS AGO??? I STILL HAVENT FINISHED THIS and yes wow im really milking the yuri genre eh?]


9. Man, you're //2015-BTS//

The usually cramped interior of their spaceship became 20 times even smaller when the ambient white bulbs went out and was replaced with a garish blare of emergency lighting. Everything came down with an orange-ish tinge, making the actually very pale acting captain RM to look fairly healthy, and contorting his terrified grimace into one of excitement.

[wow i can feel the present-writer-me here in those sentences]


10. Hearts a(line)d //2015-BTS//

It was the usual Tuesday for everyone. Alarm rang at 8, jump in the van, hair and makeup, rehearsals. All that jazz. 

But, one thing turned out to be different when a whisper came swooping into his ears while Jimin was having his hair done.

"What... Is he doing?" 


11. Seafoam green //2015-Tao//

Ever since that eventful day, Zitao would often find himself waking up to frothy waves lapping against his bare feet. He quickly chucked it out as a case of sleepwalking. He never had any history of traveling whilst asleep, but that was the only sane reason he could conjure up without digging in any further.


12. Phonograph //2015-IU//

The glass of red wine glistened, upon my trembling hand and the dancing candles perching at almost every corners of the room.

My nails chittered against its warm surface. The discomforting noise bounced against my ears, much louder than the gramophone singing some somber tune from the study.

[omg seriously i didn't think of 2015 as 2 years ago. where has 2016 been like whaaaaat im really getting old. btw you can see the change of style because even if i write this using a first person POV, i don't feel like scratching some itch off my brain]


13. No action for a change //2015-EXO//

"Are you sure this is the correct planet?"

".... As sure as I know that my mouth is shaped like a tonton's beak."

"SEHUN I'M SERIOUS."

While the two young men were quarreling over petty topics at the back of the cockpit, the other two who were piloting the small cruiser was ridden by puzzles themselves.

[this is legit just a rehash of Man, you're lOL]


14. A Midwinter knight's dream //2016-IU/BTS//

Yoongi paced around the room, his palm locked around the hilt of his sword in a vice grip. Still, it slipped numerous times from his clammy fingers, as his heart would beat ever so slightly faster with every faint battle cry brought near to his ear by some straying wind. 

With his mind focused on a place far from where he was standing at the present, it took him a while to hear the sobs coming from the corner of the room. 

[i can't believe midwinter knight's dream is the only story that i legitly work on in 2016 what. but i finished it so i guess thats good]


15. Please. //2016-Infinite//

"Please..." after all of her sobbing, after all her pleading, after screams and begs and everything in between, her 'please' was nothing more but a silent whisper.


16. Chatshire //2016-IU/BTS//

The Shire's been enveloped in torrential downpour for the past few weeks. 

Constantly. 

Waking up with a light drizzle on one's window and going to bed with thunders blaring to lull you to sleep. 


Soooo that's that! idk, do you see any change in my writing style or am i just hallucinating things.

But me personally, i do think my style changes since i started seriously writing 4 years ago. last month i found an old plot book written by me when i was in 9th grade and dear lord above my english was (it still is but i think im getting slightly better) dreadful like i can't even believe i wrote "an grape" like why 9th grade me WHY.

if I have to describe my writing style now, as in February 2017, I would say 'an annoyingly omnipresent and sarcastic narrator' 

yes. 

the 'narrator' will show up, even in my more serious stories. I just can't help it LOL

once again thankyou for yongharu21 for inspiring me to do this!

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winspiritbeauty
#1
People writing sstyle will change as time goess in ur case, you alr start offf good (y)!
Blu3Wind
#2
I think your writing style is good since the beginning though. Only getting beter and better..
But an grape... HAHAHHAHAHAHA okay sorryy xD it was 9th grade, who can blame u xD