What was your first ever story?

[Glofernwolfe]

I see it now. What's your pen name?

[Leyelle]

Is there anywhere I can purchase and read "Rain Dance"? Online or in a book?

I'mma be listed as Gloria Mesa because they got my pen name wrong lol. Lael is my middle name, I spell it Leyelle for marketing purposes, but they wrote my story as "Rain Dance by Leyelle."

[Leyelle]

My pen name is Leyelle but they got it scrambled and titled my story "Rain Dance by Leyelle" and wrote my real name Gloria Mesa in the anthology. Lael is my middle name. I spell it Leyelle for marketing purposes.

[Glofernwolfe]

Damn, the book's not available in Kindle Australia.

I'll check with my folks in London.

[Leyelle]

I didn't even realize there was a separate Kindle by country, i've never bought anything off Kindle

[Glofernwolfe]

Yeah it's frustrating when corpos pull shit like that

[Leyelle]

I really don't understand why you'd have to do that with digital stuff, but maybe it has to do with servers or something

[ButterflyEmpress]

The 1st story I remember writing was Janna and Jan't (pro. Jah-Nay). I was 4/5 at the time and my inspiration was that my sister knew a kid in her class named Jan't. It wasn't really about nothing, just the 2 girls running errands and going home.

At that age I didn't know the word "withdraw" nor did I know how to draw people getting money from the bank. I asked my sister for help and she drew them with guns, masks, and loot bags. She assumed "get money out the bank" = "rob the bank"

Unfortunately most of my early stories are lost to time and I'll never read it again

[Lazy-Gamer]

My first ever story, yeesh. How old was I when I first started writing? Maybe 14?

iirc, my first story I wrote was called "Angel of Darkness". Which was about a young man who, when he was younger, accidentally killed a girl whose body was left in a construction zone cause I don't remember why.
Then he grew to be an adult that had strange occurrences in his life, frequent nightmares and seeing things.
Eventually he found he was being haunted by the girl he killed. The nightmares served as a warning of things to come and he had to avoid it somehow.

I don't remember much from this story since it was written so long ago, but, it never reached a true ending.

[Lensing]

My first ever story was a Star Wars fanfic and it was really bad, I wrote it in the
80s, my brother still makes jokes about it 40 years later

[AmysGames]

There were a handful of "books" that I wrote when I was 3 (with help from my mom) that were exactly as coherent as you might imagine. Most notable one was called "What A Good Day," which was about a red cat named Cat Bear who had a decidedly not good day where he was chased by a dog.

[TheBlacKat333]

@alliascompany that actually sounds really cool

@ButterflyEmpress omggggg, bank robbing is such a relaxing chore, it’s like, right below sweeping

@Lazy-Gamer I can smell the nightcore amvs off that story

[allenT]

I'm sure there's some halfbaked stories in my childhood mind before this, but the first story I came up & also drew was a Sonic OC adventure comic

[willmarstudios]

My first "official" story was actually a sort of prequel/starting point for the MC of my current webnovel. Originally it was a self-insert of my character, Conri, into a friend's story because she was (still is) in the process of writing her own trilogy series. The concept is based on years of short stories where the plot of that story was terribly flawed/jumped around, trope heavy, spelling/grammar errors, etc. but it had the same sort of themes of abusive ex, gang violence and read like an RP reply rather than a story LOL.

Flashforward YEARS to now, I think NULLED is on a much better track with a much clearer idea regarding how/where I want to take Conri as a character, especially since he's been around for such a long time. (He deserves it lol)

Highly recommend checking out my friend's work at @starlitswords on twitter. Love Courtney! <3

[TheBlacKat333]

It sounds like you nearly wrote My Immortal 2.

[Mansi_Gu]

Oh, I loved this thread!

Well, my first novel isn't the one I'm currently publishing. I'm currently planning on publishing it when I finish the current one because this older work has many flaws LOL and holes in the plot, so I'm taking my (poor and scarce) time to trim it. I wrote it during the pandemic, and I finished two volumes in 2023 - and two halves of volumes 3 and 4, plus extras and side stories -, buuut... yeah, I messed up the storyline, and now I'm having a hard time fixing things, but oof! It's worth it!
It's a way darker story that tells about Heavens and Lucifer's fall - a very brief summary. I'm excited to post it when I finish my dear "Complex Love" web novel
And I have drawn a few things, like the main couple's design:

[MK_Wizard]

Mine was an adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde. It started off as a book which went on to become a webcomic and it was a huge hit, so I've been writing since.

[abigaillmartin]

I’m thinking about doing parodies of classic novels for Elsie. Which includes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[NickRowler]

I have always brainstormed ideas for stories as a kid. I have insomnia so I would come up with these stories to help pass the time at night when I could not sleep. When Pokemon was first released, I thought up a world inspired by it but filled with my own "original" Pokemon. Some could talk to humans and some had more humanoid forms. It was sort of a slice of life of people just living in this small rural town and the conflicts of humans vs. monsters.

My favorite character was this thing which I called BB Jr.

[SumireHime]

My first story was about the French Revolution in terms of placing that into a fictional world. Russia of the time was also included, as was Italy. The country undergoing revolution was the big news of the day, which invited the country which was like Russia to turn aggressor and try to invade the country that was like Italy due to the distraction of the first country mentioned. The map of "Europe" was pretty different, and these countries were all nearby each other, of which the one like Russia was more of an island nation, but the one like Italy was still a peninsula. The country like France was where generally western Europe is, in which it was a very very large country that used to be an empire that united, so therefore yeah it was a big story for it to be undergoing revolution. It was quite a political book. At the center of it all was a lady in waiting for the queen of this country like France. The queen's husband had just passed from sudden illness, and therefore the events kicked off that made many people try to claim power or take it by force. This lady in waiting was enjoying time with the queen's fourth son, who had no chance at the crown and was not the recommended heir. As a lady in waiting, this girl was of the nobility class and might have stood a chance with actually bagging him since he had no chance of ever becoming king and was considered not really a prince at all at that point. The usage of French words of all of these titles was in the book, but for clarity here I'm using English. Once the revolution kicks off, people at court start to scatter, abandoning once thought beloved people for their eventual deaths. People turncoat and these confessions lead to more deaths. The MC is offered a place in the country with her sisters, one of whom has been ripped away from her family that was part of these royals and is quite distraught, but she refuses to leave the boy she loves. It goes on and on literally. It was an epic of 1200 pages in teeny size 8 Times New Roman font. I was 11, and a history nerd. Still a history nerd. I consumed everything I could find about France at the time of the revolution like other people drink water. I was a little insane about it, tbh or can't you tell.