this is a collection of unpolished, imperfect, messy snippets either from writing exercises or unfinished stories. I’m putting these here to document my progress as a writer, and to remind myself that writing is writing is writing — even if its not perfect.

currently working on my first interactive fiction.

Christina Ji 6/10/20 Christina Ji 6/10/20

forest, ghost, cotton candy

“Blessing was a little town, with little houses, filled by little, lost children.”

ruins, journalists, and pirates

“Shooting star journalist. Couldn’t take the heat and burned too quickly on impact.”

sharks, spies, space

“As she hurtled towards the planet, Melodia could only see a reflection of the fighter in its placid, dark water. Burning metal. Damaged wings. Her own face that, for just a fraction, twisted with fear before she broke through the surface.”

wow! if you made it to the bottom of this, here’s my most unpolished but longest work (~53K words!): The Hall of Masks. This is a “zero draft” I wrote in 2019 - it is very, very unpolished and mostly word vomit, but it was my first time sticking with a full-length story until the end of the writing process. If I can do it once, I can do it again!