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Sara Dietz's avatar

This was sweet! And honestly relatable haha

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Diana Cantu's avatar

Love this so much

I would tell my past self that I am great just as I am...I don't need to be anyone else.

I remember writing a short story in 8th grade for my teacher who I absolutely loved. He was such a great man.

I would be a sleeping dragon.

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Michael S. Atkinson's avatar

1. It would depend on where I find my past self, honestly. One thing I'd definitely tell my past self if I could was to find a way to make a copy of Ron Keith's recording of Mossflower on audiobook because that's going to get lost to the ages.

2. Oh, gosh. I don't even remember. I was young and I wrote something about a kid summoning a tornado or something. Definitely in my teens for sure with the Very First Novel.

3. A nice polite dragon that just wants to stay out of the way of the other dragons and not get involved with the dragon wars, just hang out with the gold at all. Unless I can be the wise-cracking comic relief dragon like Mushu in "Mulan". He was hilarious.

Also, my condolences on the binder. Maybe somewhere up in Heaven there's a place where the stories we wrote and lost come back and we get to read them again. You never know. :)

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Walther Cantu's avatar

1. You'll find the one, don't worry. She's awesome.

2. Probably in my twenties.

3. I would be one of those bearded dragons.

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Randall Hayes's avatar

I would tell my past self that scientific illustration is an actual career.

The first short story I remember writing was a 7th or 8th grade English assignment, something about a Hitler clone on Mars (maybe?). I was much prouder of the time I got that same teacher to give me class credit for a comic book I had drawn.

According to this post, I am a redneck dragon(born).

https://randallhayes.substack.com/p/dadgone-ol-orcs-man

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The Chronicler's avatar

This was so, so sweet!

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Your past self is quite judgemental! 😅

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Scoot's avatar

My past self had no chill 😂

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Eh, I doubt mine would be any better!

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The Crazy Cat Lady Writes's avatar

I want a dragon story!

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