Who here wrote awful fanfiction in their early childhood?

[junkodudeturkey835]

I can say i used to write some of the most ridiculous and insanely stupid fanfictions the world never saw. I always used to write about whatever game or tv show i was watching at the time and they would always be full of intensely over the top action scenes that are not unlike a scene from a generic anime (which i didn't know was even called anime at the time).

Doesn't help they were always self insert fanfiction with me as a main character too. But not until i had written a 150+ one which ended up being the longest thing i have ever written to date that planted the seed for a story which i have been struggling to realise for the past few years. Only recently i think i might be making a breakthrough with it and might get it done for once.

Who else used to write fanfiction at a young age before developing better writing skills?

 

[Beaviz81]

I'm sort of still struggling with it for my case, but then again I'm in the wideopen sandbox that is Warhammer 40.000.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Not entirely fanfiction but the first ever full story I wrote when I was eight was a retelling of Snow White, who was renamed Rosie. Just the one (female) dwarf, an angel called Samantha and a monster called James who had help from aforementioned characters as he was being spurned by dragons for being different. Very heartwarming. And Sally the dwarf stabs the evil stepmother at the end.

But yeah, all my stories while growing up were blatant Mary sues. Lots of stories involving me and dinosaurs or Egypt or being a vampire with awesome powers. Fun, escapism stuff.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

I did start writing until I was 33 so no. Well unless you include my Agatha Christie inspired stories for school lol.

However I write fan fiction now. I just loved the comment in Torchwood when Captain Jack said he was never getting pregnant again so I went on to explore it (ended up with a Wicker Man inspired story using the Kandy Man from 80s Dr Who). And more recently I explored the relationship between Dumbledore and Snape. I find writing in other people's characters in other people's worlds fantastic for highlighting my own strengths and weaknesses. It's far harder than just making up my own.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I have a story that I wrote in about 3rd grade or so, which was a blatant ripoff of a book I was in love with at the time, called The Gammage Cup. I'm sure there were others along the way.

 

[jastius]

we had to do a time travel story for third grade.. mine was the only one with out a rocket ship.. i did a rip off of alice in wonderland where the protagonist falls through a time gate instead of going to a different land they go to a different time... but i got an A on that one..
i did a star trek screenplay treatment where the humble alien that was working with the ship engineer was really the mighty mcwhatsit fleeing from the whoosits from suchaplanet. but that was a screenplay script, not a prose treatment. and i did it with the intention of submission. but they cancelled.. scott bakula was not enough to save the day.

 

[DaCosta]

Yes, I did. Highlander and Poltergeist: The Legacy. I was in my early teens and going through a rough patch in life - it helped, I think. Thankfully, I've lost all of the stories - I can bet money on them being atrocious!

 

[Mouse]

Nope. Never even realised there was such a thing as fan fiction until I discovered the internet. Don't really see the point in it, myself. I've got my own ideas and characters, why would I need to use someone else's?

I was inspired by Colin Dann and Brian Jacques when I was younger, so used to write lots of animal stories but they were never fan fiction.

 

[junkodudeturkey835]

Yes, I did. Highlander and Poltergeist: The Legacy. I was in my early teens and going through a rough patch in life - it helped, I think. Thankfully, I've lost all of the stories - I can bet money on them being atrocious!

Hah Highlander, love that movie.

I was actually very happy when writing some of those fanfics, though the 150+ one was when i was at a terrible school i should never have went to (i won't go into specifics why...just it wasn't a normal school), but my brain was more energized and comfortable then, so i was able to do it. Plus it didn't take as much thought.

 

[Tyburn]

I didn't actually write fanfiction as such, I tended to try to create my own versions of things. I had my own version of Blake's 7, later my own version of Phoenix Force (cheap American pulp action novels), then I created a series of Star Wars characters which morphed into 'Greyspace' and was the first nearly full-length novel I finished, and has now become something else entirely.

Space Captain Flight is an outright parody, but more subtly so than 'Bored Of The Rings' and 'Barry Trotter' and the like. It's not directly parodying any one thing but there are elements from various things sprinkled throughout.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Nope. Never even realised there was such a thing as fan fiction until I discovered the internet. Don't really see the point in it, myself. I've got my own ideas and characters, why would I need to use someone else's.

Well, to be fair, what I wrote wasn't fanfiction -- I didn't know about that until I came here, really. It was just plagiarism.

 

[BetaWolf]

Yep. Based on old Nintendo action RPGs--the old Legend of Zelda in particular, though the main character was different.

 

[Perpetual Man]

No.

I never did.

I do not have a drawer filled with Doctor Who stuff that I did not write, neither do I have those written by my best friend.

There is not a story in their that has the most atrocious conversation ever written, and there most certainly is not an epic war story that predated the Time War by some 25 years.

Because I did not write any.

 

[monsterchic]

I didn't actually write fanfiction as such, I tended to try to create my own versions of things.

I do this too. I also try to get into the other characters' minds, tell the story from their point of view. Fan fiction? Not really, maybe, kinda...I don't know.

 

[Sapheron]

If by early childhood you mean that plus my teen and young adult years, then yes. Wait.. I'm still a young adult.

To be fair, writing terrible (and every so often mediocre) fanfiction is a relaxing and fun pastime. You just have to remember that that's all it is. Series novel writing is another thing entirely, and the two have to be kept separate.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

No.

I never did.

I do not have a drawer filled with Doctor Who stuff that I did not write, neither do I have those written by my best friend.

There is not a story in their that has the most atrocious conversation ever written, and there most certainly is not an epic war story that predated the Time War by some 25 years.

Because I did not write any.

Better be careful. The stuff that isn't in your drawer will self-destruct in five seconds and disavow any knowledge of your existence.

 

[Tecdavid]

Not so much a written story, but when I was a lot younger I'd play out little scenarios in my mind, featuring a bunch of characters from a bunch of fictional universes. It was the age when I was first keen to create, but didn't have a clue how to come up with anything of my own.

 

[BenSt]

I remember when I was really little having my own imaginary Television station, BenTV, in which I'd have little nature shows on the snails in the garden, narrated like David Attenborough.

The best was my mini novel, truly aweful but fully illustrated. It was called 'The Supreme Empire' and involved a kid named Jason who... for some reason, was the size of an action figure. For some reason he could bring action figures to life. I had him buying new soldiers from Toys'R'Us, and fighting off his sisters barbies. I was a very impoverished kid... I didnt play with action figures, I wrote about another kid playing with them :S

I also decided to write a series of new one page plays based on one from school called the Baker's Apprentice. I still have them somewhere, good times.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Better be careful. The stuff that isn't in your drawer will self-destruct in five seconds and disavow any knowledge of your existence.

You think there are any out of the drawer? I mean they try on occasion, but the chains, deadlocks and bolts keep them in. Well they would if there were any in there.

Which there aren't.

 

[ratsy]

I actually got a box of writing I did when I was really young. Probably around 8. Some of it is really hilarious. I for sure had a Back to the Future one and My Secret Identify episode, which at the time I thought was awesome. They make me smile at least...and I love how I had drawings to go along with them.