Welcome

[syf]

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Hello and welcome to "To the Hilltops!" We're so glad that you are joining us and choosing to share in this journey toward an ethics of Christian womanhood.

Please view this post as an invitation to a comfortable seat beside a cozy fireplace. Come in, kick up your feet, grab yourself a cup of tea, and introduce yourself to everyone.  Who are you?  What brings you here?  How do you see the need for a community like this one in your life right now?

Excitedly,
the mods (Kay, Sharon, and Tamara)

Comments

Re: Hello Everyone!

[reading_angel]

I found it! I just went and poked around Kay's old page and figured out which one of her favorite authors was you... Fire, Flower, Warrior was the story I remembered.

Re: Hello Everyone!

[trackers]

Ohhhhhh lord. THAT story. Shameless teenage fantasies. I apologize for nothing!! :)

Re: Hello Everyone!

[young_laugher]

Oh NO, I still have a page? I have got to take that down. Throes of embarassment and shame still overtake me when I recall the awful wish-fulfillment/MarySue/melodramatic prose of ASoB...

Although I must say, all of our juvenile story-writing and sharing of stories, regardless of the actual quality of such, was really quite a nice way to spend an adolescence, wasn't it?

Re: Hello Everyone!

[trackers]

I agree! And even if it was bad, melodramatic and everything else... Well, isn't that what teenage girls are SUPPOSED to write? Like I said, I apologize for nothing! ....But I'm going to take down my page before someone else finds it and I die of embarrassment...

Re: Hello Everyone!

[agreyeyedgirl]

If I dig enough, I bet I have a copy of ASoB printed out... :D

They were wonderful times! And I think most nerdy girls go through the same stage--and I think we learned a lot of things about writing from the experience, no? I mean, you learn things by doing them badly for a while! And then eventually you do them a little less badly.

Re: Hello Everyone!

[young_laugher]

Precisely. Yes, Cousin Chris nearly lynched me when I said I'd deleted all my ASoB files because of a severe attack of embarrassment. He hated ASoB, of course, but believed very strongly that one should not destroy traces of one's literary emergence!

Isn't that Anne Lamott: with writing, you flail around for a long time, and then finally you get to something good?

Re: Hello Everyone!

[reading_angel]

I'm actually really sad that only one of my stories is still up on ff.net. I wanted to reread MY horrible, melodramatic, LotR fanfic and it isn't up there(I have no memories of deleting it, but it was a long time ago, so there is no telling).

The BatB retelling is the only one there... which I actually just copied to my laptop last night with an eye to rewriting it into a functioning short story since there is so much about it that I really like and it's short enough - it's just the pacing that's horrible, really. I kept rushing to get to the parts I wanted to write.

It was nice, and it was a nice way to meet great people if you'll just look at where we all are now.

Re: Hello Everyone!

[trackers]

This is very true. And I think it is true that we must remember our own literary heritage, no matter how painful it may be. It encourages you that you are better now, and also sometimes surprises you with flashes of brilliance (that you then promptly steal and incorporate into a GOOD story).