The author sits back comfortably in his wheel chair. Although seemingly comfortable, video game development can be hard work and taxing on one's sanity.
In need of a break the author minimizes the Unity editor. Out of his busy head an idea arises. He goes to the web browser and opens up Wattpad.com.
He rediscovers his past stories. A couple of books with only one remaining published. He reads through the introduction with no disappointment in the narrative-- only, the grammar is bad. Hanging commas galore and awkwardly arranged statements. The solution? Read the story in edit mode, create the final revision. Surely nothing bad could come from this, right?
The author, tired of pressing the publish button every time he made a change, sought out a way to simply save the draft. He searches the menus, and he glances at the red text that read: "Delete this part."
"Pfft-- of course I would never!" He ridicules the tiny link. He continues his search, getting distracted by the extra options that were probably added since his absence. Nonchalantly, he clicks through the menus one at a time, exploring more than searching.
When he arrived at the last part of the drop-down menu disaster struck. He had misclicked the red link of doom. No warning, no special flair, no safeguard. He was simply sent back to the story page. The author was confused at first, but as he realized the gap between the chapters dread had set in.
Off to the support page! Surely there was a way to recover this text! The very introduction to my first fictional world, probably the most important passage for it! Others must have done the same thing, so surely they'd have a system to revert this terrible mistake!
But alas, there was no reviving this archive. The author frantically searched through his documents, his google account, his phone's notes, but it seemed there was no other home for "Ch 2 - A Gold Medallion"
The Author came in feeling proud and nostalgic of his work, this integral part of his exploration in creating fiction.
The Author left feeling more depressed than usual, having just lost a part of his childhood. There was no motivation nor time to rewrite thousands of words that could only be recalled so vaguely.
Now the rest of this story is without context or meaning, the rules of this world unstated, giving way to chaos and confusion for the reader while also undermining works half-done and unpublished.
YOU ARE READING
Jade's Backstory
AdventureA story I wrote in high school, when Jade was just a simple OC. You can think of this as an alternate version of him, one where he grew up in a fantasy world. "From a toddler to an independent teenager, this is how Jade Neverwinter was brought to th...
