REACTING TO THE NOVEL I WROTE WHEN I WAS 13 *and it’s terrible*

[@KillianProse]

It's incredible to me that you wrote a novel of 90000 words at the age of 13.

[@iolair1973]

Right? I'm super-impressed - I was about 30 before I finished a first draft of a novel.

[@t0dd000]

This.

[@rogersisson8580]

and it isn't that bad

[@rogersisson8580]

i finished my first at around 13. but boy it was not near as good as her@@iolair1973

[@saintjimmy456]

British orphan finds herself on a mysterious desert island after a plane crash. Love that 13 year old Shaelin refused to abide by "write what you know."

[@ShaelinWrites]

I said “let’s do the opposite of that actually”

[@munafruit]

i guess i missed that day in school too - my first book was about politician's daughter being forced to move to another planet because the earth exploded 😭

[@abigailmorgenstern682]

Why was 13 such a dramatic age, like we felt everything so intensely for no reason 😭😭 that era stays dead and buried for my own sanity

[@ShaelinWrites]

REAL

[@TerezatheTeacher]

The hormones 🤣 I The most adult I've ever felt was when I was thirteen. Now that I'm actually an adult with a degree and job, I have no idea wtf I'm doing. But when I was 13, I was right about everything and also into Twilight.

[@caro_reynolds2005]

I'm 18 and haven't change at all xD

[@nevisnebis1207]

As a young writer myself, I honestly love seeing people laugh at their old work. It feels like even if I write something like this, when I’m a more experienced writer I can look back on it and laugh. It takes away the pressure to be a ‘good’ writer, and it helps me remember to just have fun :D

[@music4airports]

"those are all colors, you're correct" LMAOO

[@Martionize]

As someone who finished their first 40,000 word novel at 24, its really cool that, despite the quality, you finished a 90,000 word novel at 13 :)

[@yonathanasefaw9001]

40k is a novella I believe, 50k is the minimum.

[@playingwithstory247]

What a treasure! Thank you for sharing! Don't be too critical of your young self. It's easy to look back through the lens of what we know now and wonder what we were thinking when we wrote THAT. But what we were doing in our youngest years as writers was discovering the joy of writing. We were courting imagination and story in its purest and most innocent form when everything was possible. We were realizing that not only do we love to make up stories, but that we held the power to create. And it's that joy that keeps us writing until late in life. So be proud of, and be kind to, that thirteen year old you! Because without that all-important phase of unbridled creativity, we never would've learned to carry the spark for years to come.

[@ffstopP]

You invented an entire life, birthed it from the womb of your mind, substantial and complete, and invented a story to go with that life. What a marvelous achievement. Plot holes be damned. I loved the story, and had I read the book I would have loved plucky, violet-eyed Elizabeth Alice, too. Well done, my 13 yo friend.

[@greentokyo]

For a thirteen year old Shaelin that was pretty good haha! Honestly i’ve read worse from people more than twice that age!

[@magicinthemundane9527]

Agreed! I was super impressed this whole way through. My 14 year old self’s writing was atrocious, especially compared to this 😂

[@miezepups15]

Don't laugh at Young Shaelin :( She didn't know anything about writing and still produced an entire novel! That's such an amazing feat. Be proud of her, of every wonky sentence and cringey little scene. She'. The reason why you're now as good as you are. Her first wobbly steps are the reason you can dance now. Without her fearlessness and resolve you wouldn't exist.

[@0angelicabentley0]

Gosh, this reminds me so much of my own writing at about that age. The melodrama! lol Why was I so obsessed with making sure my character suffered so horribly with every part of their body? Their bones were always "on fire" 😭

[@rubiesstories]

im 15 right now and i just finished my second book! this was so reassuring, because seeing other peoples growth always cements the idea that I’ll get better too! 💗

[@o_o-lj1ym]

That ocean has so many bubbles I think it’s carbonated

[@BlackMasterJoe89]

I'm not gonna lie, I would have read this story and kept the binder as if it were a matter of life and death. And the colors!

[@ShaelinWrites]

I literally forced my friends to read it HAHA

[@augusthawley5504]

my immediate impression of ellie was that there was, in fact, *many* unusual things about her

[@ShaelinWrites]

Literally everything about her is unusual

[@halixmm]

she's so selfless it's giving peeta mellark

[@ShaelinWrites]

HAHA omg

[@EvoluteCreator]

this is so "trapped in a island with josh hutcherson" core

[@c1975stark]

Lmao “My birthday. No. Too on the nose. One day earlier.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@BlackHermit]

I will never EVER laugh at you, Shaelin. Your comments on your oldest of works are actually helpful to us.

[@billyalarie929]

Extremely helpful. Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics a little bit.

[@arcadelinkauthor]

HONESTLY THO... So much better than what I was writing at 13. It's wild that you finished a novel at 13. At 13 you were a better writer than a lot of adult aspiring writers, and finished a novel which most aspiring writers can't even say. Pretty rad.

[@konvaliastreams]

the way i would've ate that shit up if i were one of your friends that got the binder 😭

[@richardwilliams7374]

I love that you’re so passionate about writing. It makes me happy 😁. I watched a video you made on writing process and I realized music allows my writing to be more engaging. Thank you for that. Big fan 🙏🏾

[@Itsrainingsimmies]

The way this is actually way better than the disaster of a novel I tried to write around 13 myself....I don't have that novel anymore but I vaguely remember it being extremely poorly written and VERY unhinged.

[@michaellauritano5252]

The fact that you committed to finishing a 90k word novel at 13 says everything about you. I say this as someone who has yet to finish a novel nearly 40, lol.

[@SteampunkPirates]

Here's the thing though: was the writing objectively bad? Absolutely, it was written by a 13-year-old in their Dramatic Era. However, could I clearly see the nascent potential for what could eventually be very well-crafted writing? Yes! For certain! There were several moments where I could see what 13-year-old Shaelin was TRYING to do and accomplish, and even though it was clear that there were a lot of stumbling and fumbled bags, I could also see where it writing misstepped and how far the execution was from at least marginal success. There are several lessons here but my favorite is this: recognizing that something falls flat of its goal is a valuable observation, but the real gold lies in recognizing HOW and WHERE it falls short of its goal because those are your first clues to improvement and refinement. Thanks for this hilarious video for reminding me of such a priceless lesson!

[@passantamreltarek9946]

I would totally love to see more of these hahaha. I was also recently reading the first novel I ever completed (also at 13) and it had no descriptions at all, at one point I literally wrote, "It was painful, they felt pain" lol. And I had printed it with a hardcover and showed it around too 😭. But like you said, I'm still grateful for its existence for how it made me feel back then!

[@ShaelinWrites]

I am cackling over “it was painful, they felt pain” hahahaa why is that the perfect representation of 13 year old writing

[@EricaCalman]

I don't think I could have done that well at 13 and am still trying to even finish a novel haha.

[@bicho6313]

You're very brave for putting this online with so many jerks out here. There's nothing wrong with being a 13 year old when you're 13. If someone judges you for your writing back then they clearly aren't far along on their journey to have been humbled by the process of writing and growing as a result of putting yourself through it.

[@oskthebold1337]

Living for the Mysterious Benedict Society shoutout. Weird nerdy kids using their smarts and hyper-specific skills to solve puzzles was 10 y/o me's jam. (Also the recent tv adaptation has been really charming and true to the spirit of the books and it makes my heart happy).

[@thosefroggyfolks2004]

I’d like to think that if the plane didn’t crash, the pilot would’ve been like, “Gotta do a U-turn, I accidentally flew us to the Bahamas, whoops!”

[@ShaelinWrites]

Maybe he was so humiliated by his total lack of understanding of world geography that he just nose-dived it into the sea, as this was preferable to facing the humiliation of telling his colleagues he doesn't understand how directions work

[@y-m-x]

A 90k words full book at 13 is so impressive. I wrote 8-10 chapters of a book when I was around 14 or 15. It was a rip-off of a book called Marked. The funny thing is I never even finished the book. I started reading it and randomly DNF'd it to just write it myself, like WHY? And the writing was so bad. The narration was full of quippy one-liners. Whyyyy?

[@AislingBlack]

Actually this is very cute

[@NickSklias]

Shaelin, your videos are the best! This gave me uncomfortable flashbacks to my early writing and also reminded me of how much growth has happened over the years. As easy as it is to critique this story from where you are now it's impressive you wrote it at 13!

[@thestockimagequeen]

PLEASE do more of these omg, this was so fun!

[@jeszjade]

I love this type of content! As artists it’s always hilarious to revisit our old craft and it feels super rewarding to see how much we improved ❤❤❤

[@music4airports]

such a fun video! i love your sense of humor

[@nathaliemortimer399]

omgg the violet eyes pale hair emo main character energy... methinks GRRM was channeling his cringey teenage self when writing the targaryens 😂

[@abigailmorgenstern682]

Plot twist the silver bird is Valyrian steel

[@ShaelinWrites]

WAIT you're so right if GRRM can do it why can't I

[@76kilosofshade81]

Yes, I'm here to be entertained! Also, probably learn something from you. Edit: a short story written from the current perspective of that character left on the island (10+ years later) could be hilarious/unhinged/even more entertaining...

[@annlillyjose356]

This makes me wanna go read the book I self-published when I was fourteen, which I've been running away from for years now because it would be so painful. But I guess it'll be something to laugh over.

[@JJslick34]

Not you just casually name dropping the Mysterious Benedict Society a book series I have been trying to summon the name of from the recesses of my memory for YEARS now!

[@TheGinnyhp]

Wow! You were so talented when you started to write. Thank you for sharing your early work with us. You're more courageous than I!

[@bishfish7726]

LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR MINUTES. This was incredible tysm

[@GenLiu]

13yo Shaelin wants a word...she's not happy with this video XD That was the most memorable existential crisis I've seen and an amazing video. You're so brave to read what you did when you were young, I literally can't myself. Everything I've done before the age of 20, my mother has at her home and it's better that way. I don't want to see those ever again, my brain refuses to acknowledge their existence. And, btw, I'm certainly not saying that the book seems good or anything but it's amazing that you wrote it at such a young age. Just by the passages you shared, I can tell you've put some time and effort into this. Even the segments that are super melodramatic, I can see what your young self was thinking and understand what you tried to do there. You had the passion, but not the skill to put it onto the page, yet.

[@AFringedGentian]

Shaelin I feel like we all have to write junk for years before we can write good work. I wrote so much junk from the time I was eight to the time I was thirty-eight, and now I have a full manuscript out with an amazing literary agent (crossed fingers).

[@ShaelinWrites]

Good luck on submission!! As someone also currently on sub I know the struggle haha

[@AFringedGentian]

@@ShaelinWrites I am cheering so loudly for you!!!! Being on submission is not easy!

[@u_t_d_s_h-1_a]

Having the presence of mind to write a novel at 13, in itself--is noteworthy.

[@TheSnakeInk]

The writing is better than mine was in my early twenties 💀 I wrote the first draft of a novel that I'm still working on and... it's a thing. Granted, I had barely written anything before itso I guess there's that. But it's perfectly understandable to read your old stuff and cringe. On the bright side, it's a testament to how much you have improved since then. Not to mention that you can feel the passion and love that went into that book, regardless of its quality.

[@srod31]

20:48 HOW FAST CAN THIS GIRL WOODWORK? 😂😂

[@ShaelinWrites]

I’m still asking myself this

[@samreenshaikh2361]

Okay, I m going to be that person and just say it. This is still a 100000 times better than any CoHo novel. Kuddos to your 13 y/o!!!

[@aanchaljangir9890]

Is it common for people to have their first novels have an orphan protagonist? Cause I did too!😅

[@music4airports]

me too!! lmao

[@ShaelinWrites]

I think it’s a right if passage

[@SallySueSaywhatagain]

Hard same! Maybe there is something about being a tweenager that makes you want to kill off the parents? 😂

[@kokoro_flow]

This was so fun! Your writing was impressive for your age at the time! And a novel, too! I was feeling cringy about my first draft of my screenplays, but now I think it’s cool that I had archived them and can look back on those, knowing how much I’ve progressed!😂💖

[@willtitone8844]

That was an amazing trip down memory lane! Major props on sharing it with KZbin. Someone recently wanted to read the novel I wrote at 17 and I made them stop halfway through bc I was too embarrassed lmao

[@vultureiraq1168]

Man i think in my opinion, what you written wasn't cringe at all.. it was amazing! Writing should express raw emotion, and your very amazing at that, you inspire myself to get to writing ♥

[@alisagorelick8116]

I would love to find some of my writing from back in the day... I only put the stories on thumb drives and they are long gone. Honestly though very impressive writing for thirteen!

[@natalia-fm]

Omg you managed to write 90000 with just 13 😱 with that age, if I ever managed to write 10000 words, they would probably contain the entirety of my story lol

[@ladyursala]

I’m about your age and also wrote a Lost rip-off at 13 lol. I wrote it in two, wide-ruled spiral notebooks and low key feel like it’s pretty good, considering!

[@lemmechilll]

Okay, as a person who did cliff jumping (in the water, I mean): it's impossible you land in the water in a random position from couple thousand m and don't even get hurt. You're gonna have terrible pain in the back if you do land perfectly, still

[@ShaelinWrites]

omg so true, despite how dramatic I made that landing, it would have been WAY worse in actuality

[@rueroxanne972]

i would love another one of these videos! i really enjoyed this one

[@drsaumyasingh4941]

Loved this video! I too laugh at my childhood work. Then I get scared while writing, "What if the future me laughs at the work done by me at the present?"🤔😥

[@mradan2093]

This was so entertaining. I didn't manage novel-length stories until university, so a full novel at 13 is impressive! I enjoyed a lot of the passages, even if I can see the technical issues. There's something so pure about those early attempts at writing. I look at mine and it's this mental snapshot. I'm taken back to who I was when I wrote it. My first attempt at creative writing at 13 was about the main character waking up (classic) and several paragraphs describing the sunrise. Then I realized I needed an actual plot and gave up. I thought that if I started writing, the plot would just come to me? Even though the main character had less personality and forward momentum than the actual sun. Watching this led me to read my first attempt at an original novel (in my twenties). I paced things way too fast, with one-page chapters and references to characters and events that I don't explain at all. Because exposition is bad! My most emo line: "I envy those with terminal illnesses."

[@alluvius]

Wow! That made me feel old...when I was 13 there was no such thing as "email" (or even that concept).

[@o_o-lj1ym]

I thought I was the only one who used to do those ugly clip art titles lmao. This video is legendary.

[@yonathanasefaw9001]

Shaelin, this is too funny lmao. But look at how you've improved over the years with your writing. Good for you! You should read my work from when I started in 2007 lol.

[@caro_reynolds2005]

I wrote this sort of Winnie the Pooh story (fanfic) when I was 12, just before Disney's Christopher Robin movie was about to be released. I spent a couple of years on it, and I think it was around 300 pages long. Man I recently reread it, and unironically I think it was pretty heartbreaking if it weren't for the fact that my writing style came from wattpad and there were facts lacking accurate info xD but despite all I'm still proud of it. I wish I could regain the energy and commitment I had at that age

[@ArteArte214]

That was so funny 😂 can't imagine how hard it must have been to do this

[@heartlandauthor]

I wrote my first book four years ago while in a terrible mental state and genuinely having no clue what I was doing. To say the least, the next book I write and publish will be infinitely better than the first book I wrote.

[@african_chris]

Thank you. Now I can take a break from drafting and refresh. So happy. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 wishing you well. ❤️❤️❤️

[@mondinsel4235]

Niiiice, I did that myself earlier this year. It was painful. 🤣 Oh, and, of course, my protagonist happened to be an orphan as well, though her past is never explored or questioned. Also, she goes to another world through a portal. Ohhh nooo, and she's from London.

[@ShaelinWrites]

Omg I had a 'goes to another world through a portal' book when I was young too (never finished it). Our minds

[@mondinsel4235]

@@ShaelinWrites Stooooop 🤣 Practically shared a brain cell.

[@TerezatheTeacher]

Orphaned protagonists are just more fun, nobody to stop them running through portals and stuff, PLUS free trauma and possibly finding lost parents.

[@gporto.]

"THE DAY BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY 😂😂😂💀💀" I hope you know how cool it is that you wrote a whole book so young, though... age 13 I must have been staring out my bedroom window and chewing gum or something.

[@EvoluteCreator]

this is so "trapped in a island with josh hutcherson" core

[@psycthom]

I'd probably still read it :) LOL at the over the top plane crash though - I think past you might have been a little obsessed with colours!

[@tetramera]

I was also working on books when I was 12-13 and managed to finish the first two, but I am not good at plot and can guarantee they were far far worse than what you wrote xD

[@ZoesWeirdThoughts]

I wrote most of a novel when I was eleven. It's about three kids who are named Jack, Jilly and Johnny. They live on a small island they aren't allowed to leave for some reason, but they leave anyway and find a different island. Here are some highlights: ‘“My mom has a boat,” said Jack “but she keeps it locked up in the garage because she has no need for a car.”’ ‘They had just enough money for three life jackets. They were fluorescent orange, Jilly thought them beautiful. “I’m not sure if ‘beautiful’ is the word I would use,” said Jack. “Maybe eye-catching?” “Enough adjectives already!” said Johnny. “It’s time for dinner.”’ ‘In no time at all they could see the island ahead of them. As they got closer, they could see details.’ (Obviously. Thats how vision works.) ‘Suddenly, Jilly remembered something that her grandma had told her about the ocean when she knew Jilly’s dad wasn’t listening ‘It’s a sand bar! It’s higher than the rest of the sand’ is what her grandma said.’ (I'm not sure why her Dad hate sand bars.) ‘Just then, Jack remembered why they came up here in the first place. He felt silly for not thinking of this before. “I can’t believe I overlooked this!” he said.’ ‘They were officially lost in a cave. All this happened while they were walking, which was a very bad idea because then they all fell into a hole, almost invisible from the darkness. To Jack, it felt like they were falling for minutes on end.’ (Who thinks ‘I’m lost in a cave. Better keep walking without looking where I'm going.’ Also the hole’s like six feet deep.) ‘And with that, Johnny took a running leap towards the cliff, caught a piece of rope in each hand and then slid himself down. “Where’d you learn to do that?” asked Jilly, who did not seem to be at all surprised or worried about her little brother. Jack’s face had turned completely white. “Relax. He’s fiiiine,” said Jilly “Most likely.” “You’ve got to work on your reassuring statements,” said Jack.’ (I don't know. I hope you enjoyed whatever this was.)

[@ShaelinWrites]

OBSESSED with "They were officially lost in a cave. All this happened while they were walking, which was a very bad idea because then they all fell into a hole, almost invisible from the darkness." this is *literature* Also were we all just writing books about kids stranded on islands?? Was this in our cultural consciousness for some reason?

[@ZoesWeirdThoughts]

Maybe islands are just cool?@@ShaelinWrites

[@billyalarie929]

I genuinely love that you are giving us this and the commentary. You’re mostly MAKING FUN OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE KZbinRS 😤 but you come through with (un)surprisingly helpful advice here. (But also, oh BOY, “completed” is a S T R O N G word here 🤣 Fun fact: that’s my least favorite word simply because that’s typically used REALLY awkwardly-to-straight-inaccurately lol)

[@jacksonconnell]

I didn’t come to laugh, I came to relate because I too wrote a novel at 13! Although, I find it funny how some of the ideas were same to mine, mainly the main character being a girl and an orphan, and the fact on planning two sequels. Difference was that I ripped off mine from a franchise that I’m not even a fan of but saw it because of the hype at the time, character name (which is also the title) was stolen from a character in the franchise, and the main girl is a princess and is completely unaware of that. More facts will stay kept to myself 😂 12 years later, I’m currently on the second draft of a novel I plan to publish this year. My story may have sucked, too, but I’m grateful it was the starting point towards today ❤

[@munafruit]

Dear shaelin, As you may have noticed, I've stopped capitalising the word 'shaelin'. Why? Because im legit upset that some of this book you wrote at thirteen is better than what i am writing now at thirty????? this is mortifying i want to scream cry and rip my own hair out the pain is so much (oh and also i actually don't use capital letters in my normal colloquial writing so basically i lied a little bit. but. i am still mad tho.) no but fr DESPITE the fact that this is just really good writing for a thirteen year old,,, it is genuinely inspiring that you are brave enough to share writing from when you were a lot less skilled (and obv a lot less mature) than you are now. i can only imagine how i would feel sharing my (emo) poetry from when i was thirteen lmfao. so. yeah! plus, yes, it did make for an entertaining half an hour minutes ps rewrite this book and make it Gay (...don't)

[@alluvius]

If Alexie had been born on the island, she likely would have learned how to make functional bows and straight and sharp arrows by this point in the story. However, half an hour is an unrealistic time frame for two bows (from scratch) and 10 arrows (5 each). 3 hours to a day (depending on the level of decorative detail and what kind of wood they're using) would have been reasonable. 👍

[@maya-gur695]

I did this a few years ago with a story I wrote when I was 12. It was definitely a humbling experience.

[@TravelingCitrianSnail]

LOL This reminds me of some stories I wrote at sixteen - Gods they were bad!! 😂😂 Utterly melodramatic, with practically EVERY dialoge sentence ending at !!!!!!!!??!?!?!!??!?? (for the very least😅), plot rushing through increasingly unlikely "events" and everybody's dying at the end. They had to die, otherwise the story (such as there was any) would never be able to end. At some of them I just *had* to get to the point when the main (teenage, of course) characters are ninety, so they would FINALLY die and I'll FINALLY be allowed to finish their stories and get rid of them, so the last two or three chapters were mere chronology - child born then, grandchild born then, made this, did that, blablabla, !!!!?!?!???!?!??!?, and that is it, the loving couple are now ninety-something, they lie together in bed, they die, THE END.😂😂😂😂 Shortly after I turned seventeen (and already realized how to write good stories), I took a hard look at ALL of those... _scribblings,_ cancelled ALL of them AT ONCE and never looked at them again LOL

[@u_t_d_s_h-1_a]

A thirteen year old with presence of mind to write a novel of any length let alone one of 90, 000 words -- is pretty awesome.

[@sarahsander785]

Oh, I'm revising a book I wrote as a teenager right now. Publicly online. I think I need that embarassment to really work on it, because, well, it inself is a darling to kill. Also, congratz for 90k words written as a 13yo.

[@alluvius]

I get a strong sense that your main character here (Elizabeth), is autistic. You're saying "emo" and "introverted", but I'm autistic and I'm seeing autistic traits. Which happen to, yes, resemble introversion, but she's also obsessed with sensory input, which is common for autistic people, either dreading sensory overload, or fully enjoying the input and craving more. (Autism is weird.)

[@sarahcohen2688]

why does it sound interesting tho

[@skstein2]

I'm honestly impressed by 13-year-old you too. Yes, your descriptions were excessive. Yes, you wrote a Mary Sue. But, frankly, I've read worse prose from adult authors. So, be proud of your start and be proud of how much you've grown.

[@trillgutterbug9378]

PERISHING 💀💀💀 Good shit fr fr 👌

[@SallySueSaywhatagain]

The first book I wrote when I was 13 was about an orphan, too. :)

[@cjc4426]

Yeahh I remember when I read what I wrote when I was like 11..man was it stupid. No wonder my dad told me to stop writing. But I’m trying to get back to writing, trying to write a game of thrones meets cyberpunk, with some magic the gathering inspirations. Basically 3 villains, a mad warlord, a AI robot that can transform into a dragon to a giant warship etc, and Death itself. Then the hero is a clone of the king who trying to transfer his mind to his son body to live forever and he doesn’t know, and there a chick who royalty and blah blah. Write like 20 pages and quit

[@Mynamenikki]

Unity of form and concept lollll

[@MostorAstrakan]

Did two of your female characters faint alternatingly on the couch?

[@The_Open_Book]

I wish I could get my hands on a copy of the book I wrote as a preteen but it's gone to the ether ':)

[@purpleghost106]

If the adopting family are extended relatives and the 15 year old had no one else, then it might happen. Certainly during the second world war that did happen with families that had people on both sides of the pond, because wanting kids to be somewhere that's not being air-raided was definitely a thing. Also, despite your embarassment-- I came here to be impressed, and I am! 90,000 words at 13? Even if it's based on an existing plot, writing a 90k AU fanfic at 13 is still heeeelllla impressive!

[@ShaelinWrites]

Unfortunately they are not extended relatives and its set in modern day😂 but thank you for finding a way to somewhat make it possible lmaoo

[@jonathancompo828]

This was so fun!!!

[@SugarTokki]

I can't get over the 'The silence of the ocean is calming' line, it's so funny in contrast with a devastating plane crash, if it wasn't for the fact that it was supposed to be serious it would've been perfect as a work of dark humour! Hahaha. To share mine in return, this is a paragraph from a fanfiction I wrote when I was 14 that was ~totally~ not a self-insert, bonus points for dropping the M word when describing other people that happened to have different interests from me and extra points for including real-life teenage dramas; ''Being the quiet type of girl I didn't have friends however I didn't care for that. I tended to stay away from the loud, mundane girls that would allow you to befriend them. Then they would rather un-discretely stab you in the back. They were awful to me and just because they sound friendly, would never truly mean that they were.'' So incredibly emo... Good grief, haha. I hope mine's able to give you a good chuckle, too! Thanks for sharing! ♡

[@ShaelinWrites]

Omg this is *priceless* thank you for sharing!

[@xxrocketshark216xx4]

6:53 Oh hey, Shaelin and I share a birthday. Neat.

[@kris_pang]

How you are so very brave reading it again. I have burned mine.

[@asol_62]

Lol.

[@AdamFishkin]

9:00 "Those ARE all colors, you are correct." I know you're sassing yourself, but you're also sassing someone half your age. And for some reason it's side-splittingly funny. 10:55 "we didn't get adopted as babies, we're too damaged" ... good lord, there's emo, and then there's nihilist. 17:20 is as far as I could get before I had to run away laughing my brains out. 13-year-old Shaelin's dialogue is just as bad as you say it is. ✌

[@colorsMEwonderful]

What happened to your videos where you talk about the books you’re working on in detail? I loved watching those! 😊

[@ShaelinWrites]

Had to stop doing videos like that because of plagiarism concerns😞

[@colorsMEwonderful]

Ugh people are annoying but I totally get it! I love your ideas!

[@o_o-lj1ym]

The video chapter titles 😂

[@margauxb3591]

The time stamps are killing me

[@billyb4790]

Still sounds better than half the stuff on Netflix.

[@spiralghosts]

Stories written by tweens/young teenagers are great because you've learned all the words but you're still too immature to really grasp their meaning or use them correctly in context, you just string a bunch of words together that you think sound cool and I think that's so fun Edit: Though obviously it's very VERY impressive that you wrote a whole novel at 13!

[@tigertalk3690]

Damnn you're the first person I know who shares the same birthday as me 🎉🎉🎉