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.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).