I sometimes look back on the stories I wrote as a kid and laugh.

They're amusing aren't they? XD I used to write stories and make comics too...I had an entire book I made when I was 10 about a wolf named Rock. In short, it was more or less a clone of The Lion King but it was so epic to me back in the day XD

Yeah, though some of it was pretty original as well since right now I have a story concept that I've been developing ever since I started writing my own original works known as the Cat Team. Of course, I think it's a much bigger improvement over what the concept was originally like.

Awesome! Yeah, I had a few more original stories too...I remember one Christmas I saw pictures of adoptable animals from a local shelter on a christmas tree in a petco store. Two of them stood out to me and I started writing stories and stuff about them. Maxium the cat and Duffy the husky, and I also came up with a grumpy shepherd mix named Ralph. XD They were about as epic as a story written by a 9 year old kid could get, but they were fun. XD Sadly I haven't written out stories like that in ages, I mostly develop my characters in roleplays these days or the 'stories' come out in picture form. XD