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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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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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