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[fredericks]

The first fanfic was penned when I was eleven or so, a blatant Mary Sue tale set in the Dragonlance world. No plot to speak of, just the beginnings of a tale involving me/my protagonist and Caramon's three sons, and tons of enthusiasm. That is, until I tried to get my uncle to read it and he couldn't give me the time of day. I keep hoping to run across the spiral notebook I scribbled it in.

What's the first work of fiction you can recall writing?

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[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

"My New Nieghbor." Misspelling in the title and everything. My parents had an electric typewriter, and I was going to type a story. Told everyone about it. I was in the first grade.

I never finished it, which sort of sets the pace for a LOT of fiction writing to come.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

That is SO cute. I'm sorry, I just had to say it. The misspelling for the win.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my parents thought it was cute, too. My mother showed it off to everyone else, pronouncing it the way it was spelled. I was SO embarrassed, and have since NEVER made an "i before e" error.

(I before e, except after c, or when sounding like "a," like in neighbor and weigh. Except when it's weird.)

[mersipan.livejournal.com]

The first and only fanfic I ever wrote was about Ashram from Record of Lodoss War...it was like 18 or 19 chapters by the time I finally got tired of writing it. And yes, blatant mary-suism..uh...ensued. no pun intended.

[mersipan.livejournal.com]

Oops, reading comprehension FTW. I misread that to say what first work of FANfic did we write.

The first work of fiction I wrote was in the first grade...about a girl with a magic skirt of bird feathers who eventually turns into a mermaid. I forget what it was called, but it was also (crappily) illustrated.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Ah, but when you were younger I'm sure you thought the illustrations were the shiz. Relatively speaking.

[writer-lilies.livejournal.com]

The Little Girl And Her Cat. It was about a little girl. And her cat. I was pretty straightforward in first grade.

[jenjiyana.livejournal.com]

the first that i can remember is a "novel" i wrote in the mid 80s (freshmen year of high school i think) which was a rip off of a bad 80s scifi movie out right before that. I typed it up on an ancient manual typewriter from like the 60s that my grandmother had given me. It was soooooo bad (the story).

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Did you think it was bad when you wrote it?

[faedrake.livejournal.com]

Great topic. My first was at around 11 too. I wrote a Disney-style story about a group of ranch horses (that, of course, talked to each other in English) that banded together to find an old mining treasure trove so their "owners" could buy their land from the big bad developer and no one had to move away.

I have no clue whatever happened to it. My mom seemed to like it, but that's just how moms are. :)

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The first fiction I remember writing was way back at the dawn of time, so unfortunately, I don't remember anything about it.

The earliest I can remember in any detail (and I think I still have, somewhere) was a war story involving an elite team and a special helicopter. That was some time between sixth grade and ninth grade.

In second or third grade, they were Hardy Boys types of mysteries. I remember writing them, but absolutely nothing about them.

My Dragonlance story was abandoned part way through. For one, it exceeded the quality of the other stories they were publishing; and for another, they officially made exceptions for the "twist" in rules the story was based around. Wasn't so unique a concept once anyone could do it. Someday, if I can resurrect it from its prehistoric digital format, I'll post it.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Do newspaper articles count? Ha!

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Depends. Do you work for The Post?

[devoosha.livejournal.com]

In high school, my friend Caroline and I wrote an unending novel about our adventures with our boyfriends, Joe and Jordan from New Kids on the Block. It got around 40 chapters before we stopped...all of which I still have a copy of. We typed it on her Apple IIE...how old am I???

[klaw.livejournal.com]

I only write nonfiction. ;)

[xioley.livejournal.com]

The first story I ever wrote was 'The Cuddly Dog.' It was about a little girl who finds a lost puppy when she runs away. She and the dog do some exploring, and then she and the dog run into a device that translates the dog's barks out loud. She and the dog become famous, and then she goes back to her parents' house, with the dog as her new bestest friend. I was 6. Those readers at Young Authors of America didn't know what they were passing up when I didn't win.

The closest I ever came to writing fanfic was a story I wrote in which I modeled myself after Cherry Valance--with both Sodapop and Ponyboy. I was 13.

[bbart.livejournal.com]

I had a notebook full of short stories I made when I was 9ish. I don't remember most of the stories in it. There was one about a girl who was cast as Mary for their school nativity play, but the play was Jesus-less and therefore set for cancelation. (Don't worry, they found a baby named Jed to play Jesus.)

The longest story in the book was about a group of young hooligans and a French girl named Suzette who got themselves in all kinds of hijinks.

[1x2foralways.livejournal.com]

Ah, the good ol' days.

The first story I remember writing was a story for my grandmother when I was about 6 years old. It was about a kitty mother who bought a house for herself and her kitten breed. (:

[quenya-tattoo.livejournal.com]

I never really wrote fanfic till I was older (I don't think I was clever enough to sort out the concept.) The first thing I really remember is a "book" I wrote when I was 13. I actually finished it. I still use one of the characters now and another one is waiting in the wings for the next project. I let my mom see it and she told me I used the "She said" or "he said" tag too much. I was very offended :D

Dragonlance. Man those were the days!

[orpheus78.livejournal.com]

I remember writing something in grade school about some kid and his crab...hijinks were involved, of course. ;)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I added an "s" to the end of "crab" initially and thought to myself that you were one twisted grade schooler. Ah, but that's just my brain. And I can imagine the crab hijinks.

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the very first fiction I ever wrote, but I'm sure it was atrocious.

Probably not anywhere near as bad as the first fanfiction I wrote though... I'm pretty sure it was either Dragon Ball Z or Final Fantasy 7, and I know for a fact it was terribly written and absolutely full of Mary Sue crap. If I ever find it, I'm either going to burn it immediately or be stricken blind when I try to read through it to see how bad it really is.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

The very first fiction I remember writing was an assignment for third grade: we all had to pick an animal and write a report about it, but we also had to write a story about it. My animal was the ermine, and my story was about an ermine and a cat who became friends. It was written very crookedly on square, blue paper, and that's all I remember about it.

The first non-assigned fiction I remember writing...gods, this is embarassing...was an SG-1/Pokemon crossover. Those were my two big fandoms at the time (7th or 8th grade, I think). I pray that I deleted it, and it's not hanging around on a disk somewhere waiting to be discovered.

[twoworldsin1.livejournal.com]

Back in Rolla Lutheran School we used to play a game called Crossfire a lot. I guess it's usually known as Dodgeball but that was OUR name for it. I LOVED playing Crossfire during PE. I loved it so much that I wrote a series of short stories about it, called "The Crossfire Pro". They featured the bad guys from the Home Alone movies as villians. Yeah.

I think around the same time I wrote a short story called "Titanic II" about another huge ocean liner that was built by the descendents of the original Titanic crew and which sunk AGAIN. James Cameron eat your heart out.