Has anyone tried writing their own encylopedia?

[NotAllThere]

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I never wrote anything again.

If only it were true.

[tractor]

I read the dictionary at the age of ten and transcribed out all of the Greek / Roman Gods, Heroes and Mythological creatures into a special dictionary. I'd wanted to be a fantasy writer. At age 11 I was accused of plagarism at my new secondary school by my new English teacher as the story I had written to be entered into a competition was too complex / high standard for an 11 year old. I had to see the headmaster, was accused of cheating and disqualified. I'd written it myself from the point of the Greek Gods.

I never wrote anything again.

/pe·dan·tic [puh-dan-tik] adjective

Clearly you did...

[Sysman]

The first piece of English homework my daughter was given at Secondary, was to write a poem.
It was a good poem.
The teacher wrote in the margin, asking if she had copied it from a book.

That happened to me at uni. I was criticised for writing in plain English and not putting enough jargon and buzzwords to sound like an academic paper.

So with the next effort I went a bit OTT with the jargon and was accused of copying from some obscure book.

I was furious and soon put the teacher straight.

Got my own back at exam time where I couldn't have copied from a book, and got good marks to boot. :

[mudskipper]

No, but my cousin and I did open a museum in his bedroom, and wrote long information sheets about all of the exhibits - mostly stones, shells and stuff and a few dead insects, but he did have a skull which was definitely the star item. IIRC we fell out when we couldn't decide whether a silver necklace was best displayed on a brown or black background.

[MarillionFan]

The first piece of English homework my daughter was given at Secondary, was to write a poem.
It was a good poem.
The teacher wrote in the margin, asking if she had copied it from a book.

I was furious and soon put the teacher straight.

It's why I don't like teachers. They're normally a bit fick.

[Pogle]

I read the dictionary at the age of ten and transcribed out all of the Greek / Roman Gods, Heroes and Mythological creatures into a special dictionary. I'd wanted to be a fantasy writer. At age 11 I was accused of plagarism at my new secondary school by my new English teacher as the story I had written to be entered into a competition was too complex / high standard for an 11 year old. I had to see the headmaster, was accused of cheating and disqualified. I'd written it myself from the point of the Greek Gods.

I never wrote anything again.

The first piece of English homework my daughter was given at Secondary, was to write a poem.
It was a good poem.
The teacher wrote in the margin, asking if she had copied it from a book.

I was furious and soon put the teacher straight.

[suityou01]

I read the dictionary at the age of ten and transcribed out all of the Greek / Roman Gods, Heroes and Mythological creatures into a special dictionary. I'd wanted to be a fantasy writer. At age 11 I was accused of plagarism at my new secondary school by my new English teacher as the story I had written to be entered into a competition was too complex / high standard for an 11 year old. I had to see the headmaster, was accused of cheating and disqualified. I'd written it myself from the point of the Greek Gods.

I never wrote anything again.

You are a success then

[doodab]

I never wrote anything again.

That's a shame as you're obviously very creative

[MarillionFan]

I read the dictionary at the age of ten and transcribed out all of the Greek / Roman Gods, Heroes and Mythological creatures into a special dictionary. I'd wanted to be a fantasy writer. At age 11 I was accused of plagarism at my new secondary school by my new English teacher as the story I had written to be entered into a competition was too complex / high standard for an 11 year old. I had to see the headmaster, was accused of cheating and disqualified. I'd written it myself from the point of the Greek Gods.

I never wrote anything again.

[suityou01]

I tried writing my own dictionary once. I gave up in the end as someone pointed out I'd missed the word "Contrafibularities".

[doodab]

I just found a box of old notebooks and things. It appears that at one point I gave it a pretty good go.

I have sure forgotten a lot of stuff