Baby's First Story

@jenwriter17   Yeah, please don’t tell King Daeus! I like it here! 😉

@jenwriter17 Oh, this is funny. 😀  I would love to read about a family of wolves rowboating from America to Japan!  And Space Bees?  How did you come up with that one?!

Like @kaya-young most of my first attempts at storycrafting were when I told stories to my sisters.  And then, when I decided I wanted my stories written down, my first “official” book was typed by my mom and older brother.  They had a really hard time with that because they were not used to using the “”” (Wait, how do you put a quotation mark in quotation marks?) key on the computer, but most of my stories were dialogue driven.  🙂  Anyway, here’s a picture of the cover of my first “book” which was about 5-7 pages long, I think.  I don’t remember really having any nice notebooks like yours, Jen. 🙁

Now, here’s the funny part.  Several of you – especially @dekreel – have noticed that I don’t write fantasy at all.  Guess what?  My first two books in the “Four Children’s Adventures” series were fantasy! The first book was about four brothers and sisters who went into the woods and found an old lady living in a tree.  Then a giant came and peeked through the window with his eye, scaring the children, but he was a friendly giant, so he carried them home on his head.  Also, there was apparently a small tribe of people living on the giant’s head, if I remember correctly. (The inside pages of the book have disappeared, and all I could find was the cover.)

The second book in the series was about a city that had an invisible wall around it, and flew to a different location each night.  The children were playing soccer in their backyard when they ran into the wall (which was invisible) and fell down, but then they got a ladder and climbed over the wall into the city.  There was a talking lion who carried them home (and flew) that time.

Note:  At the time of writing the second book in the series I had never heard of either Brigadoon (lost city which appears every 200 years) or Narnia (Talking Lion). 😀

Oh, and these books were written about ten years ago when I was eight or nine. 🙂

@jenwriter17 That’s funny 🙂 NOT a chapter book.

@dekreel Sounds exciting! What was it about?

I don’t have the first things I wrote but I was just thinking about it this morning 🙂 My younger sister and I collaborated when we were little on the ‘Lightbulb Boy’ books (thus named because his head was shaped like a lightbulb) They were basically knock-offs of Henry and Mudge, I think… 😀

@jenwriter17  Hahaha!  This is a great idea.  I wrote a story about a 3-legged cat once.  And one about a girl named Lil or something.  I have both of them buried in a box somewhere…if I find them, I’ll post pictures!  🙂