First Stories

[Bebop3]

Have you ever gone back and reread the first thing you published here?

I did and it was a shock. Hugely embarrassing. I'm thinking about re-editing it and posting it again. It didn't do poorly in the ratings, and I'm grateful for the kindness of the voters, but wow, there were some tremendous, glaring issues there.

 

[KeithD]

No, but then I didn't start my writing life at Literotica.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes. I posted several in my first month as a registered user on Literotica. Almost all of them had been written some time before I found Lit.

The worst are Hen Party and Stag Party. For a long time I thought I would rewrite them as part of my Silverbridge Chronicles but I decided to leave them posted as they were as a reminder of how bad a writer I was (and can still be!).

The Bridesmaids' Revenge was my first long story written for posting. That started the Silverbridge Chronicles. Apart from the spin-off of their adventures in a mythical 19th Century India (Harold Plays the Hero and the three part Harold Saves Her Husband), the Silverbridge stories have been stalled for a long time despite half a dozen incomplete stories in my pending file.

 

[TxRad]

I reread the first story I posted to Lit yesterday. Yes, lots of glaring examples of things I've learned since. Rewrite it? I might but like Ogg it represents my past.

 

[Jada59]

My first story here is fine but... It was written for the Valentine's Romance contest. I made the mistake of keeping it to romance. And while parts of it are erotic, it doesn't have any full on sex in it. It's also quite vanilla. I realize now that many of the readers here want something if not at least a bit more kinky then at least more pornographic.

And like another person said, I didn't get my start writing here.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Have you ever gone back and reread the first thing you published here?

I did and it was a shock. Hugely embarrassing. I'm thinking about re-editing it and posting it again. It didn't do poorly in the ratings, and I'm grateful for the kindness of the voters, but wow, there were some tremendous, glaring issues there.

I think it's pretty good, but I can see many ways it could be better.

Eventually, I will take the time to go back and edit the whole series for typos and grammatical mistakes, but other than that, it should stand as the document it was meant to be.

 

[YDB95]

It's still one of my favorites. I reread it every now and then.

 

[NotWise]

Have you ever gone back and reread the first thing you published here?

I look at the first two now and then. I wrote them as exercises to see if I could write a complete story in a short format. One worked. One didn't. Then I put up five chunks of a story I wrote long before Lit.

They went up less than three years ago, so they're hardly landmarks for me. The first two had grammar and punctuation problems. I've fixed some. I've left some. I took the five chunks off from Lit last spring, but not because there was anything wrong with them. I never should have put them here in the first place.

 

[Kantarii]

I enjoyed writing “My Brother’s Ghost”, but it is a testimony to how much I have improved as a writer. I do have plans to re-edit it and expand it to make it reflective of my current writing style. I probably won’t do that until the summer or whenever I get my panties out of a bunch.Kant

 

[SimonDoom]

I have. I don't cringe when I read it, but I'm not that impressed. I wrote it very quickly -- within a day -- to get it done by the deadline for the 2016 winter holiday contest. What strikes me now is how skimpy it is. There's not much too it.

On the other hand, the story that I wrote first, and which was 99% done when I suddenly decided to write the holiday contest story, remains my highest-rated story. I would change a few things about it if I wrote it now, but I'm satisfied with it, overall.

 

[Hypoxia]

I haven't bothered to re-read my early LIT ambitions. I remember my first series was rejected so the second effort arrived first and yes, it's a bit better. (The first finally made it through.) I'd been previously immersed in songwriting (not much money) and tech writing and editing (paid work) but my fictive career started (and will likely end) here.