Your first writings?

[Super Fantasy]

What are some of your first writings?
And how long have you been writing since then?

 

[S.H. Raven]

My first time writing was a story about a girl who finds out her late father was a merfolk that stole a totem tha allowed merfolk to walk on land or something of that nature, severing the bonds between the land and sea. She and her three friends were supposed to find it before war broke out. I never finished it, but it was a fun start to my writing.

That was many moons ago when I was in high school. I've been writing on and off since then.

 

[pmmg]

My first story was a novel length piece about a retired soldier pulled into a hunt against a demon. It was a good story, but its poorly written. I will never revisit it though. Just one along the road of gaining the skill, I guess.

 

[Saigonnus]

My first was about 2 decades ago. About a young man who is on his way back from somewhere (I have never decided where), and had to pass by a forest that is thought to be the territory of "evil creatures"; though no one had seen any since the time of his grandfather. While passing by, a strange woman bursts out of the trees, battered, broken, and he has to take her to get healed. Thus begins the adventure where he discovers that there are many other cultures who reside in the area (he thought they were alone out there in the so-called wilderness), and the "evil creatures" really do exist, that they were originally of other races, twisted and perverted by magic, and their overlord is subverting the magic of a long-forgotten goddess.

I still go back and look at it here and there, but I haven't done much with it.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Technically the first story I ever wrote was when I was 4 or 5. Just a bunch of scribblings in a small notebook. It featured a magic whirlpool [incorrectly written as 'worldpool' more than once] that would isekai little me and several stuffed animals off on adventures.

As for the first "official" story, that might've been when I was 12 or so. The foundations of what would eventually become my invented universe were planted during my first two years of high school, in which I wrote 3 out of 12 planned stories, but it didn't really start to take shape of what it would be today until 2019.

 

[D. Gray Warrior]

Might for story that I remember writing was a kitchen sink science fantasy story about a Medieval knight fighting various bad guys (kings, sorcerers, robots, ninjas, etc) on various planets.

There was no real worldbuilding, since I was 7. I also copied stuff from various media I liked at the time, mostly Star Wars, Harry Potter and Bionicle. The main planet the stories took place on was a desert world much like Tatooine.

I don't write those stories anymore since I have moved on to other things, though my parents have encouraged me to bring it back, I just haven't worked out how.

 

[Karlin]

20 years ago, during a bout of unemployment. Time travel story about a pilot who finds himelf in Biblical times, playing the role of god. Great idea, but it woudl need to be rewritten to get anywhere. Maybe someday.

 

[Mad Swede]

The earliest drafts of scenes in what became my first novel were written whilst I was serving with the Swedish Army on the UN mission UNIFIL. I and some colleagues were sheltering in a bunker in southern Lebanon in the middle of a particularly vicious firefight between the SLA and Hizbollah. Our patrol had tried to break up the firefight, but failed when first the SLA and then Hizbollah brought up heavier weapons, so we called for armoured support from another UNIFIL contingent and took cover until it arrived. So I sat there and wrote on a few loose pieces of paper. Anything to take my mind off what was going on outside.

I didn't do much with any of these texts until nearly 30 years later when I made a concious decision to write as a way of dealing with a couple of major events in my life. At that point those scenes formed the starting point for my first published novel. And yes, I still have the grubby bits of paper I wrote on in pencil.

 

[Gurkhal]

I started writing when I was a youngster and played the Warhammer Fantasy miniature games. There was a huge community of such fan writers back then and I wrote some stories about the exploits of my Khornate Warriors of Chaos army. Good times.

My writing has been very, very much on-and-off since then.

 

[Insolent Lad]

My first writing (perhaps not surprisingly) was poetry. I was making up little poems before I could write, for that matter. And my first 'serious' writing as an adult was also poetry, which did earn me some recognition (and very little money!). Then I started writing magazine articles which did make me money. But fiction? I may have made up stories and did a bit of world building for my own amusement all along but I did not sit down and seriously write anything until I was fairly old (fifty-ish). I do feel the poetry and journalism helped shape a writing style, so the transition to fiction was not overly difficult,

The first novel was a contemporary young adult with no tie whatsoever to fantasy, but about life in small town Florida. Took me a couple years to get that one out the door, but it was the learning experience book and I sped up some after that.