When I was in high school (and middle school, for that matter), I was a super depressing writer. I was also a pretty depressed person, which you’ve already heard a lot about so I won’t go into details, but needless to say, that influenced my writing heavily. So I thought it would be fun to do a compare/contrast thingy with a novel I wrote my junior year of high school, “Reticence”, and with the short story I wrote last semester, “Super.” Both pieces of work dealt with the theme of being alone, although one is set in a regular high school and one is set in a San Fransisco where superheroes are just another part of the day. Continue reading “Then vs Now: A Writer’s Comparison”