What was your first story you wrote?

[Deleted member 84247]

Vampire porn, actually.

 

[J_Chemist]

Stay back, heathen.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Stay back, heathen.

No, as my Jester, I could order the confiscation of your vampire porn, but I am a lovely queen. I will let you keep your secrets.

 

[Deleted member 76176]

A story that will never see the light of day again.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I kind of did

 

[Deleted member 76176]

I kind of did

 

[J_Chemist]

No, as my Jester, I could order the confiscation of your vampire porn, but I am a lovely queen. I will let you keep your secrets.

"Let you". As if your tricks of coercion or abuse of power could change the outcome. I shan't be commanded so easily, Vampiss, for I am no normal mortal.

 

[TsumiHokiro]

A story that will never see the light of day again.

In my case, it all began with two poems... and they will never see the light of day.

 

[l8rose]

Hmm... I can't remember which one I did first but it was either a Sailormoon fanfiction or a weird crossover of Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.

First one had my cat in the same role as Luna for the main character but capable of changing into a giant battle tiger like the cat from He-Man. The MC was the sister to Prince Endymion and was responsible for setting free the darkness that made Queen Beryl. She was reborn in the modern era like the others but was not coping well with the fact that she was responsible for destroying the Earth and Moon kingdoms. I never really wrote much on it beyond her preventing Sailor Chibi Moon from being kidnapped and my cat talking to the Sailor Scouts to explain the true source of darkness.

And the second because it had Wendy chasing after Hook's magical ship in the snow because he kidnapped her two brothers as he had to sacrifice certain children to the undying force in Neverland. While trying to get to Neverland, she encounters the Grimorg (which is somewhere between the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and a magical tome) who pretends to try and help her. In reality, it was a representation of the evil in Neverland and was actually tricking her because she was actually the sacrifice and had to go through tribulations to make her worthy of being it.

...you'd swear I did drugs as a child.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Wow the topic takes me back.
First story I've ever written would have been back in 5th grade. We had a long writing assignment to create a "narrative" story. It was near Christmas time, so we were also given a theme about Gingerbread men or Gingerbread house. We weren't given any script to follow, so I started with some basic characters, who asked NASA politely if they could go and explore space. Upon landing on Jupiter (yes, I know now that we can't land on Jupiter), the characters find an area that is all Gingerbread themed. Floors and plants made out of sweets and candy, the gingerbread house and people (aliens), all of it. Kind of set it out to be a lot like the candy world from Wreck It Wralph. Characters doddle, talked, explored, then went back to Earth.

That's the summarized version of it anyway. Without giving the length much thought, mine had turned out to be 26 pages long (front and back), and we all had to present our entire story start to finish by reading it aloud to the class. Apparently everyone else had, at most, 3 pages (front only), and at minimum, one paragraph, and other students had never gotten to work on it at all, trying desperately to come up with something while others presented on the deadline. After two people gave their stories, I gave mine, which lasted the length of the entire class period, which was followed up by a lunch.

Several of the slackers were happy because this gave them more time to complete their work they ditched on earlier. Teacher pulled me aside and told me I had a talent for detail and vocabulary for my age, and that I could become a great writer someday if I wanted to.

Many years later, I have published so many stories, and I don't think I would have if not for that initial inspiration. I can pump out stories so quickly though it took countless tries of practice to reach a point where I could proudly self-publish. I may not yet be a "great writer," to most, and I am certainly not well known, but I had endless fun on the bigger projects I've completed, and am proud of myself for it.

___

5th grade mind: "Hey NASA? Can I have a free spaceship and explore the cosmos?"
NASA: "Sure. Let me just whip a rocket out my back pocket. Bring her home same, and keys in the ignition."
*Cue the Magic School Bus Theme song*

 

[dummycake]

in 6th grade I drew a comic about an egg who gains life and turns into a superhero, me and my friends did basically a little universe around him
I don't remember much besides the teacher praising me a lot, then telling me she showed it to her college students who liked it a lot.
I don't think no one ever made me feel so proud of my work before or since :')

after that was probably all the times I roleplayed on the internet as a cringy teen and then my Marvel x JoJo fanfic lol

 

[So_Indecisive]

My first story is something I can't really relate with now but back then to me it was amazing.

It's about a man who at the brink of success or an opportunity he felt would lead to success, gets caught in a car crash and had to get his legs amputated.
It was supposed to be about loss, the despair of never walking again and finding faith to live a better life, you know something inspiring.

But I was 14 then and part way through I realised I didn't know what I was doing ??

 

[CrimsonGenius]

My first story from years ago, back in middle school, was a homage to Final Fantasy 7 with me as the MC. I led a team of Misfits and Bigfoot to stop the big bad. Then after Big Bad is defeated it went off the rails with giant robots and everyone becoming super saiyans. I stopped during the multiverse story.

 

[QuercusMalus]

I remember two: in 2nd grade I wrote a story about Paul Bunyan fighting a giant radioactive scorpion. Burying it after the fight was what formed the Grand Canyon and part of the Rocky Mountains. What can I say? Writers have no sense of scale. ?

The second was in 6th or 7th grade- it was about a kid whose parents divorced and his father became an abusive alcoholic, the kid talks about using his fondness for extreme sports to disguise the cause of his bruises and broken bones. One night, his father goes after him and he knocks him through the window from the second floor. He thinks he killed him so steals the car and runs. Ends up on the streets of a city stealing to survive. Ends with him being chased down an alley by a cop and leaping for a fire escape ladder.

In hindsight, I'm amazed my parents didn't get a call for that one.....

 

[Lysander_Works]

I also remember writing a crime series (short stories) in 7th grade middle school. I actually managed to hold onto the original manuscripts to those.
Ever go back in time to old abandoned work and cringe to death? It's feels like that.

 

[QuercusMalus]

I also remember writing a crime series (short stories) in 7th grade middle school. I actually managed to hold onto the original manuscripts to those.
Ever go back in time to old abandoned work and cringe to death? It's feels like that.

Oh God. This. So much this. It doesn't even have to be that long ago. Like any other skill, the more you practice, it improves, and you look back at your older works and go 'what'.

 

[LesserCodex]

We've all written so many stories, whether we finish them or drop them mid work. What was your first ever story you wrote? (If you can remember.)

My first story I wrote was back in middle school, 7th grade. It was inspired by Hunger Games, but stupider XD The setting was a large rose garden open to the public, surrounded by large walls, and suddenly the walls would close and everyone inside would have to fight to the death. The main character escapes but into the middle of nowhere... It got crazy with a random jungle and a wild tiger companion. No flipping idea, honestly it was as logical as a crazy dream.

Clearly, this idea wasn't the smartest and eventually I dropped it because I had realized it was dumb. BUT that was my first ever writing piece I had created and began the hobby I do to this day.

So, what was yours?

In primary I drew a comic called "the red cape" about a superhero fighting villains with a red cape, the cape only gave him Spiderman levels of strength it was how he used the cape that I thought made him cool, looking back I regret throwing it away.

 

[HungrySheep]

In 3rd grade, I wrote a story about a sentient toilet for an assignment. The teachers weren't big fans.

 

[John_Owl]

excluding school projects, such as essays, My first ever actual story was about a wolf that ends up going on an adventure and saving a hunter. By the end, said wolf is granted a human soul by a god, and turns into a woman that the hunter marries.

did it as part of my composition class. Teacher asked if she could show it around (in exchange for me being excused from the assignment for a few days, as I wouldn't have my comp. book). I agreed. She herself was a published author, she showed it to a few friends who were authors, publishers, and editors. She showed it to her son who was, at the time, attending college for a creative writing degree.

She said everyone loved it. She asked to send it to her publisher via her agent (she was published under a sister company to Penguin, to my understanding). I ultimately declined because at the time I didn't want to be a writer. And now I'm kicking myself because it could've been a great start to a career that now, I'm striving to break into properly.

 

[Deleted member 41774]

A cringey melodramatic romantic story based off my high school classmates--

I think I still have it on my FB written in my native language.