Tell me about your first novel and your latest novel?

[Sylver]

Hi, my username is Sylver. I would like to get to know you guys better starting with the title question. We are all writers here on Author General, so tell me what your first writing project was about? It doesn't have to be a story you wrote on Scribblehub, it can be a project you wrote elsewhere or even a draft saved on Wattpad haha

If you don't mind sharing about yourself, what is your current or latest novel about? Are there any genre changes since your first work?

I can go first, my first project is a saved draft of three chapters I wrote during my sophomore year in high school. I still have them saved. I prefer not to share the title because it is a project I would like to continue in the future, but the concept is about a private school consisting of 25 students each named alphabetically with coded tattoos on their palms that allow them access to and from their class and dormitory rooms. In short, it's a story about competition to be the top student, where the stakes of getting the best grade turns into avoiding the lowest grade as each failing student is mysteriously removed from school. The story centers on a close group of three best friends, focusing on their struggle to maintain good grades, save their friends and discover the mystery behind their school and their personal backgrounds, where did they come from and where are they now?

My current novel is a total genre shift, the story mentioned above is a science-fiction mystery drama. The novel I'm working on now is a Medieval Fantasy Romance, it's about a reclusive farm boy who lets a cat girl live with him in secret as she can't remember her name or background due to lost memory. They develop feelings for each other and their bond is tested by new and developing obstacles, as the mystery of her past starts to catch up to her. It's on chapter 96 so far. As a writer, I use to experiment with different writing genres beginning with sci-fi mystery, then horror + drama, and later romance + comedy. People gave me positive feedback for my romance projects, saying my characters feel relatable and the relationships were sweet. I've kept up writing romance for about four years since as it is a genre that I personally like, although that doesn't mean I would neglect writing other projects

So tell me what was your first writing project/novel, and what is your latest? What are they about, and how have you developed as a writer over time?

 

[Iamnotabot]

My first project is a boy met girl story, it only has 7 chap. I write it about 4-5 years ago back when i was more weeb. Not sharring for obvious reason, but if you managed to read it then shush?. The boy is a half dragon met a half elf girl, the two are born abandon and decided to live together in a faraway place where they won't get bother.

My current work is a fanfic, so....yeah.

 

[Syringe]

A minecraft gender bender fanfiction I wrote on an iphone 5 like more than a decade ago when I was starting out highschool. I still to this day have everything archived in that phone and it comes out to around 300k words that will never see the light of day, and eventually became the basis of the legendary 1M word gender bender minecraft smut fanfiction that exists somewhere like the One Piece.

A decade later I'm still writing gender bender stuff. The latest is Nexus Awakened (and all side stories) that combines sci-fi elements and on the surface, a traditional fantasy world with good old psychological suffering and mythos. It can be summerized as a deep dive into Jungian psychological horror where people can inadvertently manifest a parody of their 'true self'. Lots of mystery and violence, and touches on the notion of human nature, what it means to be a human, and ultimately what is/are the essence(s) of humanity as we know it (i,e, Sins, Virtues, collective concepts denoted as Affinities, Jungian Personality Archetypes, impurities, the Self, the One Sin/Original Sin (caused by an Angel), etc). Contains a lot of mythos and folklore, so you'll find people named Cer, Ber, and Res that have canonical ties to the mythos of 'Cerberus' due to how the world mysteriously works and tends to draw in things from elsewhere, even Otherworlders for an isekai moment.

 

[Bobple]

Interesting
To provide some initial context, I only started writing about 3 years ago and before that I wasn't good at writing. Grammar, spelling, etc, I wasn't that good, this was due to various factors but I did start improving rapidly during the my last years of high school (Mostly thanks to that fact I got into novels at the time).

First Draft: My first long draft was about 90k words, 30 chapters each about 3000 words. It was a VRMMO type story, and I did have a lot of fun with it. A nice crazy ensemble cast of characters split between monster players, and side story of them of the human player cast. Like I said, I did have fun, but I did reach a creative block as while I did have ideas, I didn't know which one to chose.

However, what really doomed this to stay a draft was myself. You see, I like numbers, so I wanted to make sure all numbers were perfect at all times. I had excels for every person stat sheets, I made sure every skill used the exact amount of mana, etc.


First Story on Scribble: The Stargazing Witch & The Dungeon Planet, there was a lot of difference decisions when it came simply creating this story. For one, those thirty chapters for my first draft took me about a year, but the first 15~ish chapters of Stargazing I wrote in my month break.

This story I was writing with the full attention on releasing on scribble, because I wanted to write more and so I believed having a schedule with actual uploads would help with that. Which to fair, it really did.

Now some issues with story. Oh god, the grammar in those early parts is horrible, I even proof read them multiple times. The process of writing Stargazing after posting it for over a year now has taught me a lot about writing, grammar, and editing.

Story wise, it's a sc-fi setting with mana and all that stuff. So, I guess it is not too far of a difference between the draft in setting.

Latest Story on Scribble: Triiffic Soul, was my second story and I started posting it half a year after Stargazing started. My brain has too many ideas and wanted more of them to come out. But I did post it with a reason, I wanted to start posting more chapters and after debating it, I decided attempting to do that through a second story would work better. It's more standard fantasy, just with the weird part being three people sharing one body. I would say the story is pretty simple but I am having fun writing it, and due to be slower with updates I had more time to practise stuff like foreshadowing and other techniques. It is also third person unlike stargazing which is first, I wanted to try a different approach.

Latest drafts: Well I got plenty over here. From a detective story, a darker fantasy story, a fun LitRPG, and extra crazy one about wishes and desires, that I still want more practise before I start writing it.

 

[SirDogeTheFirst]

I first tried writing a book back in middle school. It was a story about a guy trying survive in a decimated earth after aliens invaded it. I remember my main character specifically using a desert eagle, and people hiding inside cold storage rooms to hide from aliens scanning body heat, but that was it. I wrote each chapter on paper, and they are lost forever ?

The first book I was serious about was Emperor of The North which I still write, though it had so many rewrites and concept changes, it is not even the same story. At first, it was an isekai overlord monster evolution story, then it became warcraft 3 frozen throne but Arthas acts more feral, and now its basically big bad from a dnd campaing saying nu-huh to dm and changing the prelaid story and rules of the universe, just change the dm with gods and big baddie with a depressed guy.

My current latest story is Generic Battle Academia, which I personally enjoy.
It is a story about an alternative world where an alien swarm called Crimson constantly attacks an Earth where people have superpowers. But main focus in mc, whose main goal is to fight against corruption in United Defence Council (UN security forces on steroids, colombian nose candy, with giant robots)

Now, its been 3 years since I published first chapter of original Emperor of the North and I am satisfied with my growth.
Today, I was checking drafts I made for Generic Battle Academia and found myself genuinely enjoying my work. I felt invested in my characters. Which I hardly felt while reading my previous books.
Story in my head and story on the paper had quality difference between a 4k video and a 360p video, at least in my eyes.

(Also I used to write fnaf fanfics back in 2016 on wattpad but those are not real and all evidence leading to them are burned for good.)

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

First novel I've written is this:

DECK (2017)

Synopsis:
Suffering from memory loss after getting involved in an accident, the Sage-ranked 'Mage', Henrietta Temaire Louise d'Anvilles, returns to the country where she grew up to search for her true identity. She comes across a boy named Yuuki Lerin, who claims she did something wrong to him in the past.

But, who is Yuuki, and why is he angry at her?

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This one was conceived when I was languishing in my college classroom (out of boredom) back in 2007. Took 10 years to write coz of constant changes because of new ideas (that I think might 'better serve' the story). First published in RR, now on HoneyFeed, and is currently in hiatus. I plan to rewrite this.

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Latest is this:

The Dwarf Saint is Sleeping, so I Tried Waking Her in Another World, Vol. 19 (Manuscript currently being written)

Synopsis:
Having cut their journey at the revelation of Martelle Hughes, Kuro faces another problem. The Overseer Saint, Seirna Stephanie, zealously forces the dwarves to submit and worship Kuro, as the next god of Chersea after Gaius. And she will never relent until all have kneeled before him...or die resisting!

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The 19th book from my 20-book long series I started in May 2019. Also the 2nd book out of three for my 5th and final arc.

 

[FlyingPotatoes]

My first novel is Lilies Banquet which tells about the story of a girl that can see ghost. She loves this guy friend but this guy friend just keep on chasing little girls as he is a self proclaimed (cute lover). She is feeling down till one day she met a ghost that is into GIRLS!

Meanwhile my latest project is Dicera that tells about the story of a lost soul that somehow found itself in the world of Dicera. Follow the story of our oh-so-lucky-not mc Eris as she went on an adventure in the world of Dicera. And why not bring girls as party members as well? Cause why not? GIRLS LOVE IS HOT!

Both of this can be read here at scribblehub~

 

[ElijahRyne]

Hi, my username is Sylver. I would like to get to know you guys better starting with the title question. We are all writers here on Author General, so tell me what your first writing project was about? It doesn't have to be a story you wrote on Scribblehub, it can be a project you wrote elsewhere or even a draft saved on Wattpad haha

If you don't mind sharing about yourself, what is your current or latest novel about? Are there any genre changes since your first work?

I can go first, my first project is a saved draft of three chapters I wrote during my sophomore year in high school. I still have them saved. I prefer not to share the title because it is a project I would like to continue in the future, but the concept is about a private school consisting of 25 students each named alphabetically with coded tattoos on their palms that allow them access to and from their class and dormitory rooms. In short, it's a story about competition to be the top student, where the stakes of getting the best grade turns into avoiding the lowest grade as each failing student is mysteriously removed from school. The story centers on a close group of three best friends, focusing on their struggle to maintain good grades, save their friends and discover the mystery behind their school and their personal backgrounds, where did they come from and where are they now?

My current novel is a total genre shift, the story mentioned above is a science-fiction mystery drama. The novel I'm working on now is a Medieval Fantasy Romance, it's about a reclusive farm boy who lets a cat girl live with him in secret as she can't remember her name or background due to lost memory. They develop feelings for each other and their bond is tested by new and developing obstacles, as the mystery of her past starts to catch up to her. It's on chapter 96 so far. As a writer, I use to experiment with different writing genres beginning with sci-fi mystery, then horror + drama, and later romance + comedy. People gave me positive feedback for my romance projects, saying my characters feel relatable and the relationships were sweet. I've kept up writing romance for about four years since as it is a genre that I personally like, although that doesn't mean I would neglect writing other projects

So tell me what was your first writing project/novel, and what is your latest? What are they about, and how have you developed as a writer over time?

My first writing project was Tarty Fart vs The Giant Mutant Ice Cream Cones. I wrote it on loose leaf notebook paper at least weekly for a couple of months during my 5th grade year. I would read it/pass it to my friends and classmates. Unfortunately it is lost, but from what I remember it was a superhero thing.

My latest, assuming you don’t count the things I am planning, is The Thread Tree. A dropped interactive detective story, posted here on SH.

 

[AstreiaNyx]

My first 'novel' was actually a 7-chapter angsty fanfic manga published on a manga reader website. But drawing was so tiring, so I decided to write instead.

My latest work is a WIP comedy about an Evil Queen reincarnated into a powerless nerdy teen.

 

[Thraben]

First novel is a borderline unreadable piece of slop created piecemeal one page at a time over 6-7 years of middle and high-school.

First posted novel is on a different site, and I'm not going to outright state what site or what story (because I'm actually here to run away from it without my regular fans yelling at me for not posting in almost a year), and it is a romance city-builder with old school D&D vibes and a grimdark, tragic prophecy undertone.

My current novel is much more honest about what it is and what I'm trying to do with it, it's a LitRPG that is particularly obtuse about how its mechanics work, with a protagonist who sees himself through the same lens that college professors use to overanalyze and praise Shakespeare characters.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I'm necro-ing this thread, sorry in advance.

My first novel was a Ghost Hunt/Death Note crossover fanfic that I wrote on FanFiction.Net for six years (2010-2015). It was the first novel-length piece that actually went anywhere. I still had to spam-advertise it like crazy to get more readers to read it, which worked but also backfired on me in the form of threats to report me if I contacted them again. I was a HUGE attention-whore back then. I wrote 24 chapters before calling it quits on it. I wasn't as well-read on mystery/detective fiction as I am now, so everything was new and shiny to me when I wrote it, and I went total balls-to-the-wall horror with it, but my inexperience really shows in that one. It has it's good moments that I've recycled in future original works, but I just didn't have the writing chops to continue on with it. Plus, my interest in fanfiction has waned by 2015, so there's that.

Anyway, I've written more original stories (fragments mostly, but some much longer stuff) since then. My current novel is a villainess fantasy epic that still has a major mystery-solving streak in it, but it's also full of action and more scary balls-to-the-wall stuff. I guess, no matter which genre I tackle, there will always be a mystery-solving element to it. I've since read a heck of a lot more fiction (especially mystery/thriller fiction) since 2010, so I know my way around this mystery-solving gig fairly well. I'm halfway through the 2nd volume of my villainess novel, and it's glorious. I can't help gloating over it, b/c it reflects what interests me at the moment: a sword-and-buckler villainess girl kicking ass and using her head for more than just make-up decoration.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My first novel was a fairly rote fantasy novel that was rejected by the only agent I submitted it to, back in 1989, and then lost after a couple of moves (probably for the best). Don't even remember the working title anymore. It was my third attempt at a novel - two pretty much rote high fantasy, the other a bit darker - and first finished one.

My first paid publication (unless you count a $25 prize in a short story contest to be "paid") was a module for a role-playing game ("Demons Rule" for Champions 4th Edition if that matters, which pitted Lovecraft-inspired monsters against superheroes and was heavily influenced by the movie "The Warriors").

Latest is very hard to quantify. Latest one I have finished only has 17 of 23 or 24 (plus epilogue) chapters published here - it's a noir-horror-detective-superhero story done roughly in the style of Raymond Chandler (and is the first book in a series; probably five books long but not sure).

Latest one I did any work on - other than making a cover candidate for "Strange Awakening", was the one I added chapter one (of 57 so far) last night, "Between Worlds", kind of slice of life/high fantasy/world-hopping/gamelit.

 

[theInmara]

Our first project was a book sized illustrated short story called Walking Black Water about an imaginary friend named Ink, that was inspired in part by the Epic of Gilgamesh. It's tragic. Written in 1997 for a college English class. The teach said that the chapters felt too episodic, which broke up the flow, and that it deserved to be expanded into a novel. We are still holding onto it for the urge to do just that, eventually.

Our latest project is girldragongizzard (found here), a trilogy. We're releasing the second book a chapter a day, and writing the third book now. It's about a very closeted trans woman who wakes up one day, after a night of fitful dreams, to find that she's been transformed during the night into a dragon. It is, admittedly, written specifically for ScribbleHub to appeal to the same audience as the stories we most like to read here, which means it's also written for us. We've been wanting to write this kind of story for a very long time, a story in which the hero, a dragon, drinks coffee in a coffee shop as a dragon and has girlfriend as a dragon. But then she also does dragon things, like fight off other dragons to defend her territory, and that complicates things.

girldragongizzard is, in some ways, more childish and indulgent than Walking Black Water. But, also, the writing is better. We are now so prolific with our writing that we can sometimes write the first draft of a whole trilogy within a month, with minimal need for editing and proofreading. We do this for fun and a sense of purpose in life.

Both stories, and every story we've written in between, are born from the intense frustration of personally being mistaken for a single human being.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I wrote my first "novel" when I was eight or nine. Harry Potter wasn't allowed in our house, but everyone at school was talking about it, so I decided to write my own. It was called Terry Traxter and the Secret of the Dragon's Nose. It was about a boy named Terry Traxter who had a birthmark shaped like a star on his forehead who went to Shmog Shmorts (no, I'm not kidding) to learn how to be a magician (which is DIFFERENT than a wizard, so get off my back, MOM!) There was also a dragon with an all-powerful wand stuck up its nose who killed kids with stars on their foreheads because of reasons. My parents didn't let me read the books, but they couldn't stop me from seeing the commercials for the movies on TV, so everything I knew about Harry Potter was from those. That meant the story literally went "Terry found a rock troll. It tried to hit him with its club so Terry said the magic words that killed it. Then there was a giant snake." I was so proud. It was over 100 pages long, but only because I raised the font size on my computer as high as it could go. In actuality, it was probably only, like, seven pages long.

The first book I ever wrote from beginning to end was North Pole: Chosen One. It was about an orphan teenager who got kidnapped adopted by Santa Claus and brought to the North Pole where he pulled a sword out of a stone because he was THE CHOSEN ONE destined to defeat the Winter Warlock and save the earth from eternal winter. I was an edgy teenager when I wrote this, so of course it was ridiculously violent and took itself way too seriously.

I'm working on a few different projects right now, but my biggest one is called Road to Olympus, and it's about a colossal battle royale tournament that's held every ten years, with the winner ascending to godhood for the next decade.

That, and I've been hired to write a prequel trilogy for the Last Fables series, which has been a ton of fun so far.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Leray World was actually my first project. I hosted it elsewhere and am slowly migrating into this platform, because I like SH and RR much, much more than KDP and traditional Ebook sites. Though, exclusive to SH, I actually launched Overlap as the first project (on SH). I would consider its genre to be 'Alternate Romance,' and while I might not have captured that genre perfectly, there is a lot of personal value in it for me. The Leray series though is still my favorite; main genres of 'Magic, fantasy, and action.' I don't think I care what genre I try to write; I fell in love with the magic system I generated for the Leray project, and I designed it so well that I'm able to create infinite additional projects that stem from it, if ever given the time. Maybe that's why I like it so much; not just for what it is, but for what additional worlds could spawn from its matrix.

I only meant to write two, and ended up with 19 of these monsters. It's only 19 by KDP ebook length, and I had to maintain that format for SH, which is kind of odd, perhaps even confusing for the readers, but I also don't have a choice on it. Chapters are being migrated about 2 times per week each Monday and Thursday night.
Some might ask me, why would I migrate a paid story to a non-paid site. Sadly, some recent moments of life have forced me to evaluate what I should be willing to leave behind, and how easily it should be accessed. Not liking KDP as much anyway. It's easier to just hope for donations.

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I do also have a first novel that was never published (scrapped project), but I've locked it in a box somewhere. Too cringe to bring it to light.
Reminds me of my eight grade writing assignments.

 

[HungrySheep]

Honestly, it was pretty bad and it's still here on SH. I was talking with a friend about how isekai LitRPG slop is braindead and easy as hell to write so they told me "You try it then" and I did. It was pretty easy and managed to rack up a decent following, but I ended up finishing the novel as quickly as I could. It might've been easy to write, but it sure wasn't enjoyable.

For the record, I won that debate.

My first novel is Lilies Banquet which tells about the story of a girl that can see ghost. She loves this guy friend but this guy friend just keep on chasing little girls as he is a self proclaimed (cute lover). She is feeling down till one day she met a ghost that is into GIRLS!

Meanwhile my latest project is Dicera that tells about the story of a lost soul that somehow found itself in the world of Dicera. Follow the story of our oh-so-lucky-not mc Eris as she went on an adventure in the world of Dicera. And why not bring girls as party members as well? Cause why not? GIRLS LOVE IS HOT!

Both of this can be read here at scribblehub~

Sounds based, actually.

 

[Nolff]

I'm necro-ing this thread, sorry in advance.

Good luck, necromancer.

 

[Terrate]

I must be alien here, because my first and latest novel are the same. The one I'm writing right now. Because I never thought I'd like writing to this extent until it was Pandemic, baby!

 

[TheIcMan]

I write like a parasite. I take everything from any media I love and blend it all up into an absolute mess.

My first ever complete "novel" is based entirely off of the "Daughter of Evil" vocaloid song, alongside some ideas from Guilty Crown and thankfully some original ones I had in a dream. It's filled with everything a 13-year-old boy would eat up: Classic anime bs of a transfer student being the destined partner of the MC, love triangles, secret organizations, tragic, but manly self-sacrifice, and insane sequel baiting. Like serious chuuni stuff. This was actually one of my more original works, because everything else was blatant mashups of series I enjoyed at the time. Mixing Akame Ga Kill with Young Elites by Marie Lu, having a genuinely weird combo of Rosario Vampire + FMA + something else I'm forgetting. It was wild stuff.

Nowadays I haven't changed. I've just gotten better at not being a plagiarist lol. Because my current novel (unreleased here for now) is based on the ideas of stuff like the Trails series, or Toaru, and everything I love about Isekai that deserves better than... well... suffering from Isekai's garbage reputation. Whether I'm a child or an adult, I love, love, love, grand stories.

My plans are to create a world that has multiple mini-series taking place at the same time, that all coalesce in the end for one big finale. It'll start off as a simple, unassuming story about a girl who wants to achieve her dreams as a pseudo blacksmith. But when her story ends, the plot will be revealed which will branch off and begin the wild ride. There'll be small hints, cameos, callbacks, and answers hidden in these spread-out mini-stories that will slowly piece everything together. And it'll end as it began, with a simple story, but with much more background and lore behind it.

Basically, I love the feeling of going "Hey I know that character!! They're from x" or "These characters don't know anything, but I know x from another story!" It's just so fucking cool, yeah? It's a huge undertaking that might not ever see the light of day, but it's an ambitious dream I hope I can achieve some day.

 

[Anonjohn20]

My first project is a boy met girl story, it only has 7 chap. I write it about 4-5 years ago back when i was more weeb. Not sharring for obvious reason, but if you managed to read it then shush?. The boy is a half dragon met a half elf girl, the two are born abandon and decided to live together in a faraway place where they won't get bother.

My current work is a fanfic, so....yeah.

The first story sounds better than the current story, WTF. Don't worry, people will say the same thing about my first and current novel.


The first thing I wrote when I was a kid (which doesn't count because it wasn't a novel) was a poem about how my childhood home felt like a prison or a gilded cage. I had to light a candle and burn it before I was caught with it, but it helped me understand my own feelings on how I was living under a controlling helicopter parent.

My first novel draft when I was a teen was a historical fantasy, time travel, thriller. It was never good, but I really enjoyed learning and practicing worldbuilding, pacing, setting the stage, dialogue, and much more.

My current novel drafts (5 of them that I rotate so I don't get bored) are all shameless, unrepentant, filthy smut that might not even be allowed on Scribblehub because its like 15% plot and the 85% erotica. Four of them are set in the same high fantasy universe but have different MCs so that the readers can experience the world from different points of view. The last one is a modern fantasy with superpowers.