First Story vs. Most Recent One

My first story, I think, about a girl who had literally every dream of hers come true. As in, she had a dream about it, it came true. I'm sure I was only in, like, year five, so about 9/10 years old, and I'm sure it had Busted in it. It didn't even really have a plotline, it was just.. drabble. But it started me off, thank God.
My most recent is my Jack Barakat one (the link in my signature), and, well, it's actually a lot better. I haven't even evolved all that much, but I have got a clear plotline in my head about it. It's a typical best friends fall in love plotline, and I'm still using far too much cliché, but I have definitely gotten better as a writer. Although I could do a lot more with certain characters, but then I'm sure I'd find something else in my writing to complain about.

Well, the first story I wrote was a picture book about a girl called Alice who (very briefly - it was only about ten pages long) travelled round the world. I've been writing stories pretty much ever since.

The first 'real' story that I can remember writing was probably this one about a group of kids who got transported into another world, and split into two groups and had to go on a quest to find a magical potion or something hidden deep in a castle in order to get rid of the evil from that world. On the way, they had to collect keys or something, which they could only get by completing tasks and overcoming obstacles and fighting demons.

My newest story is considerably deeper and more meaningful, and the plot is a hell of a lot more confusing. In short, it's about our world in the future, where imagination is completely illegal, and everything is very tightly run by the government, and the story focuses on the resistance group who are fighting against them, but there are a lot of sub-plots and it is a very dark story, with the main characters frequently ending up in danger. Personally, I'm pretty sure that this is the better one.

I wrote my first story in fifth grade. It was about this boy that was the soul savior of the world. He was some kind of prophet and had to go to the underworld to fight all these demons, ghosts, the undead and things like that to save the world. And if he died, then pretty much, Armageddon would happen, and the underworld would be taken over by the undead for 1000 years or something like that.

I still think that story is pretty freaking epic. If only I could find it....

Nowadays, I pretty much just write fanfiction (of the slash variety, of course). No living dead, no ghosts, or anything like that. Just hopeful teenage dreams of hot band guys screwing each other and falling in love and blahblahblah.

And my writing style has gotten so much better since fifth grade.

My first story to now.....alot has changed since then, I'm hoping I got better at writing lol :P

my very first story was about these...witches. i still have it somewhere, and i cringe reading it... i wrote it in like 2nd or 3rd grade.
my newer stories have improved a lot, but you wouldn't know it because i haven't posted anything, haha.

I think I was around 9 when I wrote my first story. But if we're talking novels here I was 12 when I wrote my first one - a Fantasy novel. It was basically a bad copy of stories I had read, especially the Lord of the Rings, and it was more half-random events strung together than an actual plot.

My most recent story is one I'm working on now, more than 10 years later, (with a lot of writing in-between) and granted it has many, many differences. The major ones being that it's not Fantasy (I gave that up long ago) and that it's not "heavily inspired" by another story, it's all my own crazy imagination. Besides that everything else has changed/improved as well.

My first story was full of cliche. She fell in love with the lead singer, there was a love triangle, and she got pregnant.

My recent story is a Torchwood fan fic I'm working on right now.

Compared to my first stories, some grammar has been improved and much better plots have been created as well.

Oh, God, my first fanfic was when I was like, nine, and it was InuYasha and it was AWFUL. I wrote it on plain white paper because, back in the day, lines were apparently too conformist for me. :shudder:

The most recent one is ETF/OMC with an interesting twist, and my God, the grammar, the spelling, the plot, the everything is just better.

My first story in English was a one shot about Synyster Gates, I was like 14 at the time. It was terrible. The plot was actually not that bad, but it was all goth, gosh, what was I even thinking? xD My most recent stories that I've been working on lately are very different from each other, actually. One is a story based on the Third Servile War, or Spartacus War and the other one is a Nick Jonas fanfiction about religion and that sort of stuff. But I'd say I've gotten SO MUCH better at writing over the years.

My first proper story was about a group of women in a Victorian asylum. Mainly inspired by Emilie Autumn, and my love of Victoriana at the time. That was when I was thirteen.

My most recent running chaptered story is about two best friends, and the relationship they have. I can't really explain it well, but I like to think I've improved a lot. Grammar and spelling definitely.

Oh God, my first ever story was this god-awful fanfiction about the lead singer of Paramore getting kidnapped or something like that. It literally made no sense, and there were so many grammatical errors it actually hurts to think about it. I was thirteen, I think, and I posted it on Buzznet, and I have no idea why I was so proud of it at the time. My dialogue was probably the worst part about the thing, haha!

The most recent story I've put up is an original fiction about a part of the Japanese Imperial Army called Unit 731, who basically, to put it bluntly, killed a shitload of people to further chemical and biological warfare advancements. I'm quite proud of the way I'm writing it, and it is miles better than my first story, mainly because my grammar and spelling improved after nearly six years of high school English.

Actually, technically speaking, my first ever story was a crudely drawn picture book about a penguin called Penny. It was literally like the worst children's book ever, but it had lift-the-flap things so I saw that as an achievement!

As a revival (thanks, Mibba Magazine!) I'd like to get it out there that my first real story was based off of a Green Day/MCR roleplay crossover, a slash between gerard Way and Billie Joe Armstrong. ::

My most recent story is about a young woman on an alien planet, who discovers the real reason for existence.

my first story i ever wrote was when i was in second grade, and it was about these brother and sister dogs, and they'd snuck out of their house in the middle of the night to go and explore in the woods, only to get scared, and then get hurt while trying to get back to their house.

my most recent story was about a man murdering someone, and then ended up being upset because he had ruined his rug.

i realise that i've not changed too much, bad things are still happening to my characters. but, i do believe that my vocabulary is at least past a second grade level by now.

I believe my first story was basically a re-write of a novel that I read when I began writing. I didn't realize that I had basically copied the plot, while adding a few things of my own, until I reread the novel again a few years later. I quickly realized what I had done and deleted the story from quizilla and from my computer. I didn't want to see it again and feel bad that I copied it.

My most recent stories are so much better, in my opinion. They are so much longer in chapter length, which is amazing, and they are more detailed and thought out than my first stories. Over the years, after getting help from others and reading other people's stories, I have definetely improved and am continuing to improve. I am just glad that my writing has improved from when I first started to write. I don't even want to write a story as cliche and short as my first stories.

My first story is a Perrentes. I wrote it just over a year ago. In fact, it had it's completion anniversary on the 22nd. Though the subject matter hasn't changed all that much, the quality has sky rocketed. My chapters are much shorter than when I first started writing (~1500 to my ~1000) but I'm getting it back up there. In the Perrentes, it was basically just them getting together, blah blah, an original girl character creates problems and such, blah blah blah.

My most recent story is a Hayliver, and it tells of Hayley's time in a psych ward. Just under 2500 words, it's more detailed and expressive than my earlier writings. I'm currently rewriting the Perrentes and having a blast.

My first story was when I was ten. It was just about me, my cousins, and my friends and it was similar to the Abby Hayes books and in parts of the story, there were "journal entries". It was cute at first, but the chapters were short, it was all handwritten (and I had really crappy handwriting back then), and I went off topic a lot of times. Also, I don't really think it had a solid plot and was just a whole bunch of randomness.

My most recent one is a Hayley/Oli fic and of course, it actually has a plot and the spelling and grammar are way better. Also, I finally settled with my own writing style instead of trying to be someone else. There's way more description and characterization and it's not handwritten, obviously (though my handwriting's gotten better). And I write longer chapters now.

In my first story, the big climax was a first kiss and a kiss on the cheek was a big deal. In the story I'm working on now, they have sex right off the bat

My first story was when I was in the 6th grade, it was cliche, and all hand written and to this day remains unfinished. It was cheesy, one of those stories where the main character suffers a car accident has amnesia and falls in love all over again, in fact I remember reading it to my cousin.

Since then I've somehow created my own writing style(I hope), my plots are a lot more planned out and my chapters come from the heart.

I tend to write about issues not many people write about, and I try to put them in the spot light with a new outlook.

One of my latest stories is something personal, and I hold it close to my heart, because it deals with the topic of divorce in parents and the repression of it for the child involved. I used that as a base and went on, putting some of my own thoughts into the character but creating their own unique self, life style as well.

The chapters are much better compared to my first story, and I hope people can grasp the meaning in the words I write.

. . . yeah.

My first story post-high-school that I let anyone read was based off Power Rangers in the 1990's, the inspiration being the character of Tommy (green and later white ranger). I had a 9 year old son totally into the show at the time, LOL....this was during the time that the internet was just coming into fruition and I didn't have a PC nor even a typewriter. I did the whole thing longhand in notebooks. It wasn't good, but I enjoyed writing it :)

Then I wrote a fanfic in 2005 called FreeBird and actually posted it on a message board. From there I went on to write "Taking Chances", "Bring Me to Life", "Kiss of Fire" and started one called "Through Glass" that I never finished. These all were fanfics about a NYC underground indie band called Pray for the Soul of Betty that broke up in 2006.

The untitled Power Rangers one was somewhat angsty in a really immature way. The fanfics started out with so much sweet fluff they gave me cavities, and progressively grew darker. The darker they got the better I wrote. All of them, at least in part, carried with them an element of the paranormal or supernatural. I guess that's my niche.

I took a long hiatus from writing after I got married (he couldn't begin to fathom fanfic and found it stupid and a touch creepy and weird). I know, right? Incompatible right there!

Am divorced now (big shocker! haha) and found this site a couple of weeks ago. As a huge Ghost Adventures fan, I came up with an idea for a fic and threw my hat into the Mibba ring the other day. "Unforgotten" is a work in progress (is it ever - I'm only on chapter 2 right now) and hopefully will be the best writing of my collection!

BTW as far as I know, only my fic "Bring Me to Life" exists anymore. Fanboards came down, thus deleting my published works. I'd backed them up on my laptop of course, but that crashed too. I'd further backed my files onto a CD ROM but that seems to have vanished also. I guess they were never meant to see the light of day

My first story was something I wrote in early elementary school (2nd grade at the latest) about a King who's favorite footstool got stolen and he said that whoever found it could marry his daughter. And this baker in town was totally in love with that daughter so he went on a quest to find it, and he did, and he and the princess lived happily ever after and then the Red Sox won the world series. Seriously that was the last line of the story was that everyone was extra happy because the Red Sox won the world series. Of course they didn't for another like ten years, but clearly I wrote it in October when my parents were losing their minds over baseball playoffs. I think it's probably still somewhere, I hand wrote it and I still have most of my notebooks from forever. But I haven't been able to find it when I've looked.

I also used to write Cam Jansen Fan Fiction (because we read Cam Jansen books in school) and I always was thinking up plots that I thought would be better than the actual plot of the book. This was like first grade/second grade too.

I've been working on two things recently, one is the novella I'm publishing which is about a girl who's sister dies really tragically and how that grief can really mess up relationships. I did my best to make it as realistic as possible, so it can be painful to work on.

And the other is The Elite (link is in my siggy). Which is about vampires, and half vampires, and war, and romance, and I don't even know.

So yeah, I guess things have changed. But you still never know when I'll throw a Red Sox reference into a story.

It's a New England thing.