Y'all ever felt embarrassed with your first attempt at writing?

[PBJ_Time]

My first story was called "Lifekiller," and I wrote it when I was 15. I attempted to deconstruct shounen tropes but just came up with incoherent babbling, less showing and more telling, and other grave sins.

Honestly, I'll post the first chapter later on the feedback section just for the lulz, lmao.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

first attempt at writing? I do fanfiction smut way before I get into original story writing. And don't worry, I cringe at it too as well.

Unfortunately, the original document is already gone, so yeah, goodbye to that forever ?

 

[NotaNuffian]

We grow as people

And cringe is the sign that our past us no longer aligns with the present us.

Good or bad, that is for the person to tell.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

My first attempt in writing was not bad but often get lost during the plotting stage.

I was writing a E-sport type of story where my MC is studious guy who never touched a game until his friend invited him to play at an internet cafe. He gains the ability to intellectually predict the enemy's movement patterns as he plays and was challenged by an expert Dota player to play against him in 1v1.

I thought the concept was fine, until I got lost during my writing and ended up with so many ideas of progression that I got myself confused as to how to proceed the story. Because of that, my classmate ended up saying that I should post my story online which I did but ended up writing a new one due to fearing that my first story might get copywrited or ruining a plot if I continued on.

 

[LuoirM]

My first attempt in writing was not bad but often get lost during the plotting stage.

I was writing a E-sport type of story where my MC is studious guy who never touched a game until his friend invited him to play at an internet cafe. He gains the ability to intellectually predict the enemy's movement patterns as he plays and was challenged by an expert Dota player to play against him in 1v1.

I thought the concept was fine, until I got lost during my writing and ended up with so many ideas of progression that I got myself confused as to how to proceed the story. Because of that, my classmate ended up saying that I should post my story online which I did but ended up writing a new one due to fearing that my first story might get copywrited or ruining a plot if I continued on.

hi

 

[just_darkjazz]

Honestly I keep the notebook with my first ever writing and revisit it every so often. I don't cringe very much, it may not be good by today's standards but it was the best I could have done at the time. And in that sense its as good as my current writing.

 

[Bald-san]

My first story was called "Lifekiller," and I wrote it when I was 15. I attempted to deconstruct shounen tropes but just came up with incoherent babbling, less showing and more telling, and other grave sins.

Honestly, I'll post the first chapter later on the feedback section just for the lulz, lmao.

My first attempt at writing is inspired by the new word I learned in elementary 'Suicide' so more than being embarassed, I'm surprised I can write something that dark by just learning what a word means

 

[xizl]

lol I still have my first attempt at writing, so cringe. Like 8 chapters of pure steaming garbage. love it

 

[Jerynboe]

Embarrassed? Bah. I willingly wrote a 300+ chapter incredibly morally bankrupt smutty Warcraft fanfiction and placed it online immediately. That was unironically my first attempt at writing anything that was longer than a school paper. I’m proud of myself for the sheer balls of it and nothing could make me ashamed of it.
Not that I’m going to cross promote it if I ever get published. Just. You know. I’m proud for actually doing something like that at 30.

 

[xizl]

Embarrassed? Bah. I willingly wrote a 300+ incredibly morally bankrupt smutty Warcraft fanfiction and placed it online immediately. That was unironically my first attempt at writing anything that was longer than a school paper. I’m proud of myself for the sheer balls of it and nothing could make me ashamed of it.
Not that I’m going to cross promote it if I ever get published. Just. You know. I’m proud for actually doing something like that at 30.

so based honestly. I respect it. im the type to seal away my old writing behind 300 wards and a giant safe door

 

[Jerynboe]

so based honestly. I respect it. im the type to seal away my old writing behind 300 wards and a giant safe door

You have fewer wards than I have chapters of poorly thought out dubcon smut freely available online. Your mortal concept of shame evades and baffles me.

 

[MarekSusicky]

My first story was called "Lifekiller," and I wrote it when I was 15. I attempted to deconstruct shounen tropes but just came up with incoherent babbling, less showing and more telling, and other grave sins.

Honestly, I'll post the first chapter later on the feedback section just for the lulz, lmao.

I missed my daily dose of banana man. I remember reading your novel, it wasn't so bad. It wasn't your first I bet, but that one was good haha.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Of course, but mom still saved most of those awful comic strips and bad "radio play" scripts I made when I was 6 or 7...

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Yes. I got over it.

 

[Sola-sama]

the word 'assassin', 'necromancer', or 'reaper' still causes me to involuntarily cringe sometimes.
my first story wasn't a mistake.

it was a ptsd gold mine that keeps on giving.

 

[PBJ_Time]

I missed my daily dose of banana man. I remember reading your novel, it wasn't so bad. It wasn't your first I bet, but that one was good haha.

Eh, I've been tweaking on the pacing before I republish it. I know I got sidetracked by writing a completely different story based on my growing taste of Stephen King, but I haven't lost interest in litRPG stuff.

 

[miw]

I believe I started writing around age 15... Years later, I came across it in my drafts and just burst out laughing when I read it xd Setting aside how awful it was, I was actually quite jealous of my 15 year old imagination. Now I just wish I could regain that broad level of creativity... (Seriously though, it was bad)

 

[LightHikari]

Not this, but there is one thing that haunts me all the time. I joined a voice call, and I thought that if you muted someone they can't hear you. That is definitely not how it worked. I muted this person, and he could still hear me. And I basically said that he was annoying. The level of cringe I feel from remembering this tops any story that I ever wrote.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Depends on what you consider to be my first attempt at writing. Do you mean the very first book I ever tried to write when I was seven years old? It was called Terry Traxter and the Secret of the Dragon's Nose. I was obsessed with Harry Potter, but my parents were firmly in the "Harry Potter is satanic" camp back then (ironic, since now my mom's obsessed with it) so the only exposure I had to it were the movie commercials that came on TV. It was just me trying to make my own Harry Potter since it was all anyone at school was talking about, except it wouldn't have any of the stuff that my parents said made Harry Potter evil. They still did magic, but they weren't wizards and witches, they were magicians. Terry went to a magician school called Smog Smorts (no, I'm not kidding). He had a star-shaped scar on his forehead for absolutely no reason. One day his friend told him a story about an evil dragon with an all powerful wand stuck in its nose who killed people with star-shaped scars (again, for no reason) so Terry naturally decided to set out and find the dragon. He went into the forbidden forest and immediately fought a rock troll. Then he joined entered a tournament, straight up murdered a dude, and won a magic sword. Then a giant snake came out of nowhere, I realized writing a book was really hard, and stopped.

It was absolutely terrible, but am I embarrassed by it? No. I was seven years old, and seven year olds are stupid. Now I'm just a stupid guy in his thirties.

If you mean the first book I ever seriously wrote and finished, that would be North Pole: Chosen One. It was a story about an orphan teenager who gets kidnapped adopted by Santa Claus and taken to the North Pole, where they find out he's the Chosen One destined to pull a magic sword out of a stone and defeat the Winter Warlock and his goblin army. I think I was sixteen when I wrote that, so I was right in the middle of my edgy teenage phase, which meant that this was a Christmas story with violence, gore, and angst, angst, angst. It was the first book I ever finished, and I even tried to submit it to a literary agent. I got a rejection that same exact day.

Am I embarrassed by that one? Not really. The fact that I've grown up and would never write something like that today is good enough for me.

 

[ShrimpShady]

My first attempt ever was a Digimon fanfic comic I made when I was 6, and it was fire