Time machine!!! The first book you wrote

[WineImmortal]

I just logged in WN with an email i have not used in years and I warped back in time.

2020 covid had just started, I was in high-school back then, and oh boy did I write some cringe worthy stories.... dialogues, flow, cadence, good character names and title, the word builing; My book had none of it.

But it sure was fun to take a trip back in time.

Have you had any similar experiences?

 

[Jerynboe]

Zero shame. My first story I ever posted online was also my first longform story I ever wrote. 330 chapter long erotic Warcraft fanfic. Zero shame. I wrote a story to completion on my first try and I will always be proud of that.

 

[WineImmortal]

Zero shame. My first story I ever posted online was also my first longform story I ever wrote. 330 chapter long erotic Warcraft fanfic. Zero shame. I wrote a story to completion on my first try and I will always be proud of that.

Zero shame indeed.
Is it still posted somewhere? Asking for a friend

 

[TinaMigarlo]

I know my first novel attempt. Cant forget it. I grew up reading pulp fiction. "Casca: the Eternal Mercenary" was a series I read. The author, it seems, died before finishing (Barry Sadler, songwriter and singer of 'The Ballad of the Green Beret'). I decided I was going to "finish" the series. Yes I knew NOTHING of any practical things. I could write, but knew nothing of WRITING. Great first chapter, several chapters kids enjoyed reading... then... meandering middle and a finish that was shite.

that said. It had its moments... just not enough of them. LMAO.

update: it was NEVER going to be finished. The original author only did so many of them. Ghostwriters did the rest. After his death, his heirs were paid and now ghostwriters live on making Casca books. I some nights toss and turn and *dream* of being one of them.

 

[Jerynboe]

Zero shame indeed.
Is it still posted somewhere? Asking for a friend

It’s still posted here. Waifu Catalog: Warcraft Beta Tester. I don’t know if I would recommend it to literally anyone ever but I know it’s very much to SOME people’s tastes because I had a surprisingly active comment section on another site by the time I hit chapter 100 and most of them stuck around.

 

[Ellie_in_Pink]

I actually have all the drafts of my first book saved. Also written in highschool. And dear satan, the first draft is the worst thing I have ever read.

 

[blushiemagic]

Bold to assume I’ve ever tried writing a book before

 

[Hans.Edward.Trondheim]

I just logged in WN with an email i have not used in years and I warped back in time.

2020 covid had just started, I was in high-school back then, and oh boy did I write some cringe worthy stories.... dialogues, flow, cadence, good character names and title, the word builing; My book had none of it.

But it sure was fun to take a trip back in time.

Have you had any similar experiences?

WN is also my repository of my novel trash.

I mean, my novels are still trash, but the ones in there? Those are relic trash.

 

[KennyCelican]

I... Uh... Submitted my first completed novel length manuscript to Baen Books.

Got a soft R&R from the Queen of Slush (because she wasn't authorized to do hard R&Rs).

Funny part? Looking back on it now I realize a lot of it needs a complete rewrite. But I still intend to rewrite it and present it; it's gonna wind up book three of a seven part set (of which I sold the first part to JukePopSerials back in the day).

 

[CharlesEBrown]

First attempt made it to three chapters before I decided it wasn't worth going further at the time ('81 or '82, so I was about 14).

First attempt I finished was a pretty blatant mashup of Lord of the Rings + Dragonlance + generic video game tropes justifiably rejected by the only agent I sent it to. Unless an ex-girlfriend still has a copy, it no longer exists anywhere as far as I know. That was my fourth attempt at writing a novel (three fantasy one horror IIRC). The others were abandoned for various reasons, no longer remembered. One of them (dark fantasy) may see light of day if I can bring one of the ones on Pocket FM to conclusion, as I had some ideas how to get around the main hole in the story - but that's about a year out at best.

In the 90s I was part of an Amateur Press Association based around a superhero RPG (Champions) - most of the stuff from that era, except the website I used to store graphics created for some of the stories, still exists in print copies (and one member of the group digitized the whole thing though I couldn't afford the DVDs at the time). Had a lot of prototype serial fiction there, including a bunch of stories set on a version of the world of True Blue - and, in fact, I started writing that as the script for a comic book one character was reading to her siblings while babysitting, but never got that far in her story. The concept for that world was that the stories were all set in a "near future" (around 2000 at the time), but the world had possessed superheroes since the '40s. They had their heyday in the 70s, and then an alien invasion happened around 1980 - the resulting war pretty much reshaped the Earth and had most of the supers, good and evil, either dead, retired or permanently sidelined in other ways before the world was freed. Now, twenty years later, superheroes are reappearing... It was a shared world project among an invited group of members (I was in the second wave allowed in), with a goal of having the writers meet at conventions to actually play their characters for games, but that goal never happened to my knowledge.

 

[WineImmortal]

I know my first novel attempt. Cant forget it. I grew up reading pulp fiction. "Casca: the Eternal Mercenary" was a series I read. The author, it seems, died before finishing (Barry Sadler, songwriter and singer of 'The Ballad of the Green Beret'). I decided I was going to "finish" the series. Yes I knew NOTHING of any practical things. I could write, but knew nothing of WRITING. Great first chapter, several chapters kids enjoyed reading... then... meandering middle and a finish that was shite.

that said. It had its moments... just not enough of them. LMAO.

update: it was NEVER going to be finished. The original author only did so many of them. Ghostwriters did the rest. After his death, his heirs were paid and now ghostwriters live on making Casca books. I some nights toss and turn and *dream* of being one of them.

I grew up reading tons of webnovels, mosty slop but one or two times I did stike gold. Reqdikng Reverend Insanity and the class room of the elite in my teenage years really did skew my world view.

Anyway the point is, many of them ended abrublty, *ahem* RI *ahem*, i also sometimes wish to give finishing them a go...

 

[Lysander_Works]

I wrote about space ships fighting space ships and warping to stars...
Takes me back.

 

[WineImmortal]

First attempt made it to three chapters before I decided it wasn't worth going further at the time ('81 or '82, so I was about 14). First attempt I finished was a pretty blatant mashup of Lord of the Rings + Dragonlance + generic video game tropes justifiably rejected by the only agent I sent it to.
Unless an ex-girlfriend still has a copy, it no longer exists anywhere as far as I know. That was my fourth attempt at writing a novel (three fantasy one horror IIRC). The others were abandoned for various reasons, no longer remembered. One of them (dark fantasy) may see light of day if I can bring one of the ones on Pocket FM to conclusion, as I had some ideas how to get around the main hole in the story - but that's about a year out at best.
In the 90s I was part of an Amateur Press Association based around a superhero RPG (Champions) - most of the stuff from that era, except the website I used to store graphics created for some of the stories, still exists in print copies (and one member of the group digitized the whole thing though I couldn't afford the DVDs at the time). Had a lot of prototype serial fiction there, including a bunch of stories set on a version of the world of True Blue - and, in fact, I started writing that as the script for a comic book one character was reading to her siblings while babysitting, but never got that far in her story. The concept for that world was that the stories were all set in a "near future" (around 2000 at the time), but the world had possessed superheroes since the '40s. They had their heyday in the 70s, and then an alien invasion happened around 1980 - the resulting war pretty much reshaped the Earth and had most of the supers, good and evil, either dead, retired or permanently sidelined in other ways before the world was freed. Now, twenty years later, superheroes are reappearing... It was a shared world project among an invited group of members (I was in the second wave allowed in), with a goal of having the writers meet at conventions to actually play their characters for games, but that goal never happened to my knowledge.

I've read 'books' with similar premise but yours appears to be much much well fleshed out.

Superheros, awakening as hunters; all have been the buzz in the kr webnovel space.

You were ahead of your time.