REACTING TO THE DYSTOPIAN NOVEL I WROTE WHEN I WAS 14 (it’s surprisingly political??)

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@shebreathesingold8043 9 ай бұрын

Can this be a thing??? You breaking down any novel that won't be published and sharing the entire process of how it came to be and also reading chapters in between and actually walking through the story? Because this is a lot of fun! 😍😍😍

@lavendermothboy 9 ай бұрын

as a person who also wrote a dystopian novel at 14, i'm still impressed that you finished yours. apparently, i'd written * most * of a story, but wrote the epilogue anyway. i thought it was so good and so long! but it was like 20k words, most of which didn't need to be there

@AstonishingRadish 9 ай бұрын

Omg i forgot about zeffo

@lavendermothboy 9 ай бұрын

@@AstonishingRadishhow could you???

@jasminv8653 9 ай бұрын

Listening to this from northern finland with constant snowfall still during easter, 'wow those people who stayed in scandinavia are idiots' kind of hit me ngl

@Lara_Ameen 9 ай бұрын

Really amazed by 14-year-old Shaelin! At least with the excerpts you read. This also makes me feel old. I was in undergrad in 2011. 😂 “Baby’s first socialism.” 😂😭 But seriously, that was great! I wrote a lot when I was younger, but some things that stick out at 14 include an unfinished novel about a vampire (years before Twilight and very loosely based on a Polish interpreter I knew when I lived in Poland who reminded me of a vampire) and also a commercial for a fake product called Shark Away which began with the classic opener, “Are you tired of being bitten by sharks? Then try Shark Away!” 😂😂

@o_o-lj1ym 9 ай бұрын

I love how even before your writing was overtly gay, it was still coming from a gay place.

@tmanley1985 9 ай бұрын

I made a ham sandwich when I was 14. So I did stuff too.

@jessnw5441 5 ай бұрын

HEARD!

@oneinathousand2156 9 ай бұрын

I don’t think I ever wrote any long original fiction as a kid, but I do have a couple of fanfics I like to re-read every once in a while for a laugh. One was an overly dramatic Super Smash Bros fic where Mario thought Luigi was dead, but he wasn’t and he turned into a kinda-sorta antagonist. The other one was a melodramatic Powerpuff Girls fanfiction where a fourth Rowdyruff Boy came along and nearly killed the girls, and they had to solve the mystery of where he came from.

@efosaagbonson1581 9 ай бұрын

This manuscript is not bad for a 14 year old...not bad at all. Interesting Shaelin...don't be too hard on yourself...your work is more authentic than you think.

@jacquecortez5014 9 ай бұрын

A young mind is a free mind.

@ms-abominable 9 ай бұрын

i love this video for giving a shout-out to Hanna, i was also obsessed with saoirse ronan in that role lol

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

Saoirse Ronan as Hanna was suchhh a cultural reset

@youellswinney1964 9 ай бұрын

In a box somewhere sits a novel I wrote as a teen that I've never wanted to go back and look at, but kept because I'm weird like that. This has made me want to dig it out and cringe through it.

@SinSefia 9 ай бұрын

Decades later, I did return to look over mine, and so I finally ripped it up and threw it away.

@youellswinney1964 9 ай бұрын

@@SinSefia I found mine and also found that the last pages are gone, so I don't get the satisfaction of seeing how badly I ended it, but I'm dreading digging through it. In a good way, of course.

@Hannah-hr6rz 9 ай бұрын

Lol I love this!!! It’s always interesting looking back at your younger self’s creativity. I revisit my really old writing from time to time, and it’s a nice reminder of why I write in the first place. It can also be a good way to practice quieting your inner critic a bit, because you’re taking in what you wrote without needing to think about edits/“quality.”

@Otter-Brainrot 9 ай бұрын

I love these vlogs, they're so weirdly motivating. 😂 I think it's the fact that I'm 20 and have yet to finish a single WIP while you managed to finish an entire novel at 14... I need to step my game up lol.

@billyalarie929 9 ай бұрын

Glad to have you on our side for the last 13 years, comrade.

@bishfish7726 9 ай бұрын

The way I RAN when I saw that you had posted this!!

@anastasiyasankevich 9 ай бұрын

Not the melodramatic monologues-

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

My early novels were just 80 melodramatic monologues held together by very questionable “plot”

@jessnw5441 5 ай бұрын

That was delightful! Thank you for sharing. It's time has probably passed, but if you'd been able to wrangle that story into publishable form in the 2010's you might have had a major franchise... what might have been.

@Thetopnoobpro 9 ай бұрын

Interesting to observe how the current trends at the time influenced everyone’s writing. First it was the Harry Potter boom, then the ya dystopian, then the GOT boom, tho personally I fell victim to the stranger things boom :(

@adamparrishkinnie 9 ай бұрын

10yr old me would've made soooo much Kaila Reilek fanart u have no idea

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

Glad she is speaking to the people

@rockbandny 6 ай бұрын

I wrote a hospital drama about an athlete who broke his leg but in fact it was an allegory for the race horse injury as he was shot. I was 14.

@theoneandonline 9 ай бұрын

I just love how you called Saoirse's brother Ronan xD

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

best part is that wasn't even intentional...just pure subconscious longing

@PerryOTaber 9 ай бұрын

Bahahahahahaha. That was an awesome stretch of silly ravings. The 14-year-old Shaelin is a based individual.

@mariliis8 9 ай бұрын

I’m just here to say that I read Tabula Rasa and loved it 🙂

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

@elmind74 9 ай бұрын

Peak fiction

@veganphilosopher1975 9 ай бұрын

Something I think we late bloomers struggle with is feeling that because we are older, we can't write a cringy, melodramatic first novel. I really think it's just part of the process. If someone who was paraplegic, through some great medical invention, learned to walk later in life, I'd imagine they'd go through many of the steps a typical infant does when learning to walk. That's why, for my goal this year, I decided I won't share anything I write. Love to get your thoughts on feedback for late-bloomers and expectations if you could do a video on that.

@boyboss3322 9 ай бұрын

As a person from Scandinavia. -30 degrees °C is survivable

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

I think probably just not in the circumstances she’s in haha where she’s just out in -30 for like…four years LOL

@tweegerm 9 ай бұрын

Manifesting for Saoirse Ronan to star in a movie produced from one of your stories. Your commentary had me cackling.

@PerryOTaber 9 ай бұрын

Bahahahahahahaha. The 14-year-old Shaelin is a wild one. First of all, she named a character Laine Coven?? (I know that's a very little thing, but it tickles my funny bone.) Second of all, she has the MC be so badass she turns down bread after days and days of starving just because she wants to eat *after* escaping? This is what would happen if Liam Neeson was cast as Bella Swan. And that action scene! The soldiers ... with guns ... going in for one-on-one combat! I half-expect the wounded one to just sit on the ground and look off-camera and yell "mommy, Kaisa pushed me!!" Silly people. Honestly you could rebrand this as a parody, and have a very loyal following.

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

Addjkakw if Liam Neeson was cast as Bella Swan sooooo true

@Lunavapor 9 ай бұрын

do you ever think to re write any of these old novels from 12-14 with the knowledge you have now to make them better/make sense.

@ShaelinWrites 9 ай бұрын

I don’t plan on it since the ideas don’t really appeal to me anymore and I’d rather focus on new ideas! I actually rewrote this book when I was 18 and it was…not better haha

@michaelduffy3638 9 ай бұрын

Hi Shaelin, not on topic to the video, but I was curious your thoughts on something. If you've addressed this in another video, I'd gladly check it out. Apologies, this is word vomit-y. But what are your thoughts on publishing, AI, and the future of novels? It seems that the odds of being a no name writer "making it" are drastically declining which I'll admit does make me sad and can get speed bumps on my momentum on the novel I'm working on. I don't think books are a dying art, but with there being practically no money in writing, why publish a no name when a company can invest into whatever Stephen King has coming next, that they know will bring in money. If you or anyone here disagrees, I'd love to hear why I'm wrong and its all doom and gloom. Love the content :)

@lajourdanne 9 ай бұрын

“Baby’s first socialism” 😂

@didyoujust7810 5 ай бұрын

I wrote a ridiculous werewolf fiction when I was 14. Based in Ohio (for some reason?) It was so needlessly dramatic and had no plot whatsoever, apart from a mysterious virus overtaking the main character that made him want to kill all of his best friends and pack members. Lmao. I'm guessing it was heavily based on Twilight and the Shiver book series, and had an insert of one of my favourite singers. It was so trash.

@hatezis 9 ай бұрын

this was cool :)

@labyrinthofallthings 9 ай бұрын

Your first writing is better than mine turnedout during a writing challenge 20009-12 LOL I litterally put in kitchen sinks what the person eats you name it lol

@labyrinthofallthings 9 ай бұрын

Even for a first novel ever. i think it's pretty good and also think with some work you could definitely smooth out the rough edges of it. Definitely an outline to know where you were wanting to head with the story premise.