I still occasionally develop my first story. It means a lot to me, and it’s deeply personal, and I think that’s probably true for a lot of people.
It started as a simple slice of life about a group of characters that you followed from childhood, into early adulthood. Then it somehow developed into a sci-fi/fantasy psychological thriller, about the effects of untreated mental illness, child exploitation, and the effects of less than stellar upbringings. Also, because I was a kid through most of the writing process, there was a giant space parasite that fed off the concepts of misery and was actively making reality implode. Things got weird, but I still love it lol
Here’s a doodle of the main characters I did recently. No need to post any samples, I know a lot of people want to burn the first things they wrote anyways lol