I was recently searching through some old writing and realized… I’ve come far as a writer 
. I started getting into writing in 5th grade and I’m now 25, so like, I’d hope I evolved, haha. Anyways, I figured I’d share a snippet of old and new writing for comparison sake, and was wondering if others would like to hop on the bandwagon.
If you’d like to join me, share about paragraph of old vs. new writing. This impurely for fun, so don’t tear others down, and please don’t advertise your stories here. If someone is interested in your writing and asks for a link, you may PM them. Thanks 
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OLD WRITING (from 5th grade when I was writing my first story - a fantasy):
Fifteen years later…
In a forest, just a short run from Magi’s Forest, there lived a darkness, an evil. There, in Darkside Forest, was a man, a prince, who was already taken in by another creature. This creature was an evil Sorcerer. He was kind enough to give the man skin, but cruel enough to disturb his eternal sleep.
(I’m honestly tearing up with laughter from how poor this looks to my current writing, but like, I don’t think it’s horrible for a 5th grader, haha.)
NEW WRITING (from my junior year of high school, age 17; edited at 24 - a paranormal romance):
Roscoe dipped his head, kissed his girlfriend’s probing fingers before he stared, what Tina had once expressed as googly-eyed, at her pools of lime green. Ashley, Roscoe’s goddess in humanoid form, had bewitching eyes. Her naturally red lashes were a constant tease, especially when they brushed against her seductive bangs. Placing another gentle kiss on the back of his girlfriend’s hand, the man mumbled, “Love often doesn’t make sense.”
(I honestly didn’t know what I should put as an example of my new writing, but I know this is a paragraph that often gets attention because of how I described the girl, so I used it, haha.)
YOUR TURN! Again, share about paragraph of old vs. new writing.
