Thread: The Very First Story You've Ever Written

Okay, I've heard many authors talk about some of the first stories they know of as children and it kind of got me to remember my own childhood where I made little books from looseleaf paper and bound them with glue.
So what are some of your first writing experiences as a youngster? I suppose this is simply a story thread for y'all.
At five years old, I wrote the story of "Big Dog and Little Dog", a story of a young street dog named Little Dog who finds a teacher in old Big Dog. Through some alley fights and tough times, they stick together, all the way to the end where both of them somehow die in a battle and end up in side by side graves. (?) So....yeah......I was kind of a weird kid.
So...I guess that is pretty much it.
How about you guys?

I remember my parents showing me something. I had learned to write at three (pushing four) and had written a diary of our holiday to France. It shocked me that I wrote it (obviously was no masterpiece, but had some aspects you wouldn't expect from a three year old). It was only about four lines long, but still made me smile talking about my mum being a 'pain in my neck'.

The first one I wrote (12 years old) was a short story (20 pages spaced) about six teenagers saving Earth from an evil alien named Zephard. It was titled "The Mission". It was inspired by Power Rangers... lol I actually wrote two sequels for it (Mission 2 Egypt and Mission: Return to Egypt). I have the first one with me and the third around here somewhere but lost the 2nd one.

It's weird how carefree I was about writing. I just wrote and didn't care about plot holes. What made sense made sense to me at the time. Now I can't help but think about all the things I didn't before. It almost makes it harder to write. If that makes sense.

I remember deciding to co-write a novel with my friends at school at twelve or so, that was the first time I really thought about creative writing as being anything more than a class assignment or a curiosity when i was bored. It was so rediculously ambitious that even after we'd spent two years talking about it, editing it and playing games based around it we still hadn't got the first chapter in a form we could all agree on. Might still write it someday, though it seems much less awesome looking back on it. A plethora of undergrond cities, revelatory references and aragorn analogues with marvelesque superpowers.

The first one was about a chess match; that's all I can recall for I was knee-high. The second one, I think, was about zombies.

I don't remember many specifics about my 'early work'. I can remember showing my grandfather stories I'd written when quite young, mostly based on stories I'd heard him tell about Belfast.

I still have access to a copy of the first story of mine that was published. That was in the Fall of 1954. I'd just turned 14 and I wrote a story about a weekend camping trip by my Scout troop, complete with a three-column photo of the camp site. It must have been a slow news day.

Three months later the paper officially named me a stringer and started paying me for my stories, whereupon I decided to give up the idea of working for a living and become a writer.

The earliest story I remember writing was a project in middle school. I was usually busy drawing pictures instead and I made up cinematic stories in my mind but didn't write them down. For this we were allowed to have as many small brown composition notebooks as we wanted and we had to write a book. Other than that the sky was the limit.

My mom asked what I was going to write and like any kid entranced with Narnia and LOTR I excitedly laid out a fantasy plot (that heavily resembled Narnia). I remember her looking down her nose with a challenging glint in her eye and saying, "Yeah, but can you write anything ELSE?"

The resulting two composition notebooks, rubberbanded together, are still at my mom's place. The story ended up being a sci-fi romance kind of thing that, if I remember right, included pirates, a plucky female lead character who saved her guy, and a happy ending with the couple walking into a sunset along the beach (presumably on Earth). The teacher gave me an A+ and wrote a note that she had really enjoyed it. Reading back over it I think that meant she laughed a lot.

And writing that I just realized that my main WIP which is a collaboration is a Sci-fi/cyberpunk with a nice romantic subplot. I guess sometimes tastes don't change much.

In third grade, I wrote a little picture book about a spider who could play several instruments at once. The town had hired a band to play a concert, and their bus broke down. So the spider, who everyone had feared, played the concert and saved the day. The he devoured everyone. No -- just kidding about that last bit.

My mom put it together in a little notebook thing with a clear plastic cover. She still has it, I think.

It's nice to see writing from your younger days. I found a little diary of Achilles I wrote when I was 9. Completely historically inaccurate, but it was fun to read again (especially since I can remember writing it). He was fighting in a war in Athens, then - brutally - watched his family (who were all fighting, apparently) be killed, then died himself.

What a wonderfully violent 9 year-old mind I had. It was written at school, too, so I'm surprised the teachers didn't treat me like the child from the Omen for the rest of the year.

I regret not keeping copies of some of my childhood creations. I doubt I can remember my very first. It probably was one of those 'If I were a ____' essays that they made us do in English class.

Some of the works I do remember that were created with no prompting from teachers or whatever include a 'comic book' - It consisted mainly of heads in square boxes with dialogue boxes and tanks shooting each other viewed from the top - and a 20 day diary of a person stranded on an island ala Tom Hanks in Castaway. All done before the age of 12 I believe.

Originally Posted by aquablue

The first one was about a chess match; that's all I can recall for I was knee-high. The second one, I think, was about zombies.

I remember now. My very first original story was titled, Dark Horses.

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My memory is kicking in now. The black pieces (Dark Horses) on the chess board are "alive" and they sense a real threat to there kingdom coming near from the horizon. They start to battle the foe when...as the story progresses...a large mechanical hand (chess computer robotic arm) reaches in and captures the king. All of it is written from the view point of the black king.

Oh the youthful creative mind. Simple and fun.

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I remember having a green notebook jammed packed with short stories and lyrics for songs I made up myself. Crazy.

Ffff, I think the first one I can remember writing out of pure entertainment (and not being an assignment) was Komodo-dog. It originally came from a school assignment when our 5th grade teacher told us to make up a creature from two other creatures. I think I wrote the story on my own free will and had started a sequel on my own too. But it was never finished. XD

I wrote an epic poem about David & Goliath when I was 4. And by 'epic poem', I mean really long song, and by 'wrote', I mean had my mom write down. The major project of my early childhood, though, was a story about a boy in a fantasy world who was supposed to be the king and his adventures, which took up several yellow notepads.