When I was 12 or so in 7th grade, I started writing a story to myself, letting me expand my imagination. By freshman year of high school, I'd written about 500 pages spanning four different parts.

While I loved the core premise and characters, it was threaded significantly with my writing style. Like you'd expect of any 7th-grader, not good. Though I began rewriting it in high school, I didn't make much progress.

In college, I started again. I started writing a completely new story based in the same universe, with the same characters, but set eight years later. This allowed me to create entirely new events with the characters I knew so well inside the world I knew so well, and at the same time, describe it from scratch to somebody who didn't live inside my head.

Like you might expect of a fictional world that's existed in my mind for ten years, it's changed a lot, and had its basic elements drilled-in. Describing those to somebody else is quite a task, so being able to do it from scratch was a valuable opportunity.

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Because I preferred the first-person perspective, but needed the freedom that third-person has to freely move about the universe, I chose a strange shifting-first-person perspective. Anyone who's read the Megamorph books (special elements of the Animorph series) will recognize it. These momentary-first-person sections are typically shorter than chapters, and much longer than paragraphs.

I realized that this particular length makes them perfect for submitting on deviantART.

This story has never had a name - any name I came up with, I didn't like (because I'm terrible at coming up with names). So, I present the Ability Story.