Luck O' The Irish |
TEHUTI'S PER ON THE WEB NOTE: The entire existing text of my attempted...novel?...Luck O' The Irish. I'm amazed that I wrote forty pages of this. All I can recall is that I wanted to write a funny cheery story about life at my fictional college, Little Rock University, featuring my character Ritzie O'Brien in a prominent role. Plot? I'm guessing I'll remember it as I go along. Though it likely didn't have much; I just wanted a funny cheery college life story. Take note that my college-life fiction comes across more like high school life, probably because I had no concept of what college life was like (I attended only community college). I actually thought colleges had lockers, and class hours.
My work was in a transitional phase when I wrote this, as I was slowly phasing out of emphasizing the "furry" aspect of my writing, and trying to present my characters as more human. A relative to whom I'd shown a drawing of Luther Broderick in his dog form had criticized it ("The dog is a rapist? He's ugly!"), and this wounded me so much that I covered up the fact that my characters are not human; I didn't know that other people created similar work. It's only been since coming online that I've started to slowly reveal this again, though I still no longer emphasize it in my writing, and have created alternate human versions of earlier anthro characters; who would take Minot seriously knowing that all the characters are dogs? (Ironically, I've faced similar criticism of characters who are presented as anthro: Someone complained that they weren't anthro enough. This is why I don't consider myself or my work/characters as "furry" and I mostly avoid furry/anthro communities--can't win no matter what I do.) Anyway, this is written in a composition book upon whose cover my brother kindly wrote "The Day In The Life Of A Grain Of Dirt," but not before putting "De-" before "Composition." The title page features a shamrock/clover with three leaves, but aside from that there is no illustration for this story. It has some scribbled student quotes inside so I can date it positively from high school (1991-95), likely earlier rather than later. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |