For the writers in here, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever written?
I'll go first:
Back when I was a braindead teenager, I postponed my senior capstone for an entire semester.
I originally started designing a whole table top game. This would have included box art, a resource book with illustrations, tables, the whole 9 yards.
But I was laughed at by 3 fat they/thems when I presented that idea.
So I wrote an awful novella about lesbians going to prom in the last 2 weeks of the project. I admittedly hamed it up for extra points by padding out the plot with needless identity politics. But I got a B+ and multiple classmates said it was the best thing they'd ever read because it spoke to them as
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GOOD thread.
I used to be into wolf roleplaying as a teen so there are countless examples. The worst is something I didn't write, though; at some point a foreign piece of extremely sappy handwritten poetry of the LIFE IS PAIN, NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME variety made it into my home (my mother used to be a teacher, so that was probably the source), and she accused me of writing it even though my handwriting was much shittier than the author's and I'd never write poetry of my own accord let alone something like that.
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In art class our teacher had us watch a video with some artist expounding his view that inspiration was not necessary for art. This pissed me off to the point I unprompted wrote an 8 page digression in opposition, and put it in her inbox. This made her give me compliments on taking the class seriously, which secretly pissed me off more.
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Lmao based teacher
art is supposed to evoke emotion and u got got
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As an artist, I thank you.
The idea that you don't need inspiration for creativity is simply r-slurred
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all you need is a prompt and a good gpu
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Or a typewriter and copious amounts of coke
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that's probably better
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The prompt is inspiration in that case
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You kind of don't though. Like, once you've read and written enough, you can bang out a passable story based on half an idea. Many people have incredibly successful careers doing such.
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I'd argue there's still inspiration there. Just a different variety
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That's how you get Dan Brown novels
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I could go off at length abt how much i agree tho
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im literally screaming, the first english book i read was a goosebumps one so when i was like nine i wrote my own goosebumps book and i rediscovered it at like 18 and couldnt believe how bad it was, and it also was half in danish and half in english because i was still learning to write in english
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You should send it to R.L. Stine
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that dude is STILL writing Goosebumps book to this day somehow
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He wrote a clown book without monster clowns.
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Ive been told it's a nom de plume for a whole writing house
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I have a short story published in a danish compilation
Based BTW
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Thats so keyed Goosebumps all the way
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Keyed? Keyed on what?
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Aw but that's endearing ❤️
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please post it here
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IDK if it was embarassing, but back when I was in college I took a women's studies course.
It was taught by a radfem and I used all types of the jargon when writing essays for the class.
Think like "deconstructing calvin klein advertisements in the context of the male gaze of capitalism." stuff like that.
I got an A.
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The same year I wrote about lesbians going to prom, I wrote a feminist retelling of Bluebeard where the protagonist is actually investigating the disappearances of the other women.
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The best class i ever took was classic lit thru a radfem lens
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Yeah it actually was a good class, I enjoyed it a lot.
The radfem teacher was like Queen TERF and pretty based.
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I had a textbook rotund tumblrina as a prof but her choices of book and the class in general were S tier
Never would have read wide sargasso sea or mrs dalloway if it wasnt for that class
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Strags man
Bad fanfiction is the most embarrassing thing i ever wrote.
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Elaborate on the bad fanfiction
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Weebshit family-shipping
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Coomers walk amongst us
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Bad Shaman king/the Shining crossover.
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ooof
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No one ever saw it and I once lost it ten computers ago.
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Jurassic Park self-insert.
Just awful.
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Scp marsey
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When I was younger I would write short stories that were just straight up ripoffs of twilight zone episodes I just watched. I struggled immensely with writing fiction so the stories would cap out at 4 pages. I remember one was a rip off of the episode the Howling Man which I was angry about because I thought it was pro religion so I rewrote it to be anti religion. I also tend to dislike the essays I write 6 months after writing them.
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It's really more pro-schizo.
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There was another twilight zone episode called the old man in the cave that was even more pro religion which pissed gayhthiest me off to no end
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Serling & Beaumont & Matheson had an interesting way of looking at the world. It wasn't so much about how great God is, more they just were really sure humans would frick up everything.
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I’m no writer, but back when I was in High School I used to write short stories, and all of them were cringy. I remember one of them was an Alice Through the Looking Glass inspired tale (maybe one could even call it fan-fiction with different character names lmao), my classmates liked it, but re-reading it years after it looked awful with terrible dialogue.
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Can you give me a sample of dialog? I want to see where it sits on the sliding scale of fanfiction
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It was in Portuguese, and I lost it thankfully.
I remember things like “A Rainha Vermelha era possessiva e vingativa”
“The Red Queen was possessive and vengeful”
I changed Alice name to Camilla. (Camila was a classmate of mine, a very pretty girl with blonde hair and deep blue eyes)
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LOL, did you also change a character to your name
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No, I never did self inserts. I only based two characters from real life counterparts, Camila and the Red Queen whom I based from a bitchy and annoying classmate of ours.
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Some of the characters in the lesbian piece was modeled after multiple classmates I despised.
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Did they feel insulted or did they think it was an honor to them?
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I don't think they noticed because I completely flanderised their characters
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lmao clutch. I never felt the urge to do that for some reason, even though I could easily dislike people.
Part of the fiscally-left, socially-right movement. Join today!
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in 8th-9th grade i used to write really bad slice of life zombie apocalypse OC, if that makes sense.
like everyone would be trying to survive and stuff but at the same time they would fall in love and have secks and stuff every once in a while i’ll come across some of the old papers lying around and i’ll spend the next 2 hours trying not to
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I did something similar in 7th-8th
Mine was a slice of life in a fantasy apocalypse where all fantasy creatures existed alongside people
Including vampires, mermaids, nagas, werewolves, demons, etc
This was a project I embarked on with multiple people.
We would completely retcon the setting every couple of weeks with the same characters as different creatures to keep things interesting
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see that’s not that bad at least you had some collaborators to bear the burden of the cringe
mine was like self-insert and i would always make up for the lack of attention i got from women at the time by making my character a who had multiple girlfriends and never had any difficulty with anything
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So let me get this straight.
Gigachad in a zombie apocalypse who has a harem of Stacey's following him every where?
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yes and i always wrote the female characters to be my idealized version of what i thought i liked in a woman. and of course the main character was nothing like me even though it was technically a self-insert. much male egomaxxing and little to no meaningful introspection ensued.
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There are people who make a living writing this sort of thing
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Would sell if it was isekai
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so highschool of the dead???
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That sounds so cute though! You guys keep in touch?
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Nope!
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That could have been v marketable and u fumbled ur bag bb
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I sent an email to Bungie sincerely asking them to let me play Halo 2 early.
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How old were you?
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38
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Not me, but I dated this girl who wrote Harry Potter fan fiction about us that she posted to a fanfic website. She was Hermione and I was the evil blonde boy and all the stories were just stories about our troubled relationship (how much of a meanie I was) set in the Harry Potter universe. I found it on page 3 of Google while looking for her social media profiles. It was disturbing, but I was with her entirely for ungodly reasons, so I wasn't deterred. Anyway, she was homeless last time I checked and her rich parents had stopped trying to fix her
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Did u stick it in her butt
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Probably my hastily written drunken poem I posted here once
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Hehe
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Shock smut between attack on titan characters just for those leaks megathreads on reddit. I feel like shooting myself everytime I remember I did that.
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If you shoot yourself, you need to at least leave a slug for me, ok?
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I promise it was just to make people disgusted
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Heh I've done that
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Porn.
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Sold 2 copies on amazon to perverts in Berlin so I mean, im a little proud
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Well at least you made money
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I see those shitters making thousands of dollars on Patreon selling their shitty 3D renders + half-baked
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Fantasy porn books are where the money is. There's entire markets completely devoted to serialized fantasy smut and lots of writers make a living off it
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