{"id":539,"date":"2009-05-19T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-05-19T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:46:28","slug":"youve-got-to-start-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve got to start somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just embarrassed myself with this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\"><strong>Trapped By Monsters<\/strong><\/a>, so I figured I may as well do the same here, too! Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/2009\/05\/have-we-all-got-one-of-these\/\"><strong>a post there by Ali Sparkes asking other TBM authors about our early writing efforts<\/strong><\/a>, here&#8217;s, um, this below&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called <strong>THE HAUNTED CAVE<\/strong>. I found it in a cupboard about ten years ago just before moving out of the house where I grew up: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>my earliest surviving complete story<\/strong>. I think I wrote it when I was seven years old!<\/p>\n<p>As you can see &#8211; if you overlook the cliches and so on, gah! &#8211; certain characteristics of my, heh, later work were already set in stone. Notably <strong>speed, action<\/strong>, and<strong> dreadful handwriting<\/strong>! ;p<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540 aligncenter\" title=\"thehauntedcave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave.jpg\" alt=\"thehauntedcave\" width=\"471\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave.jpg 471w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-541 aligncenter\" title=\"thehauntedcave2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave2.jpg\" alt=\"thehauntedcave2\" width=\"505\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave2.jpg 505w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave2-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-542 aligncenter\" title=\"thehauntedcave3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave3.jpg\" alt=\"thehauntedcave3\" width=\"537\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave3.jpg 537w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/thehauntedcave3-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just embarrassed myself with this on Trapped By Monsters, so I figured I may as well do the same here, too! Following on from a post there by Ali Sparkes asking other TBM authors about our early writing efforts, here&#8217;s, um, this below&#8230;! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called THE HAUNTED CAVE. I found it in a cupboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}