My directing was the bare minimum 
. I was so lazy that I didn’t have zooms, spotting, overlays, background characters, NOTHING. The first mistake was making too many characters customizable cause my script would have 3000 lines but my story would only have 400. Then the choices barely mattered, I didn’t plan the story, it was just a mess and a half 
I really thought Episode was gonna contact me for the rights to my story so they could feature it too…
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no, not that deep lol. just poorly coded
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Goodness my first story is absolutely atrocious, I feel embarrassed for promoting it when I did. I was so proud of my work in the beginning.
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Dude, it was so bad. I used like 6 spaces to reach the 400 lines and there was little spot directing and terrible pacing I tried to do a poor girl switches with the rich girl
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I wrote it on mobile when I was like 8 or 9 and one of the characters was an asian caricature 
(stereotypical name and look) which is ironic since one of my stories has a filipino Mc if you don’t CC. It was supposed to be a werewolf story. I deleted everything when I started to get back into writing, god I hate my mind when I was that age, I was so naive.
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Interesting thread!
I wrote my first story in Classic, and I think it was the summer of 2016.
So, it was in fantasy and I had absolutely no idea how the script worked. The first episode was absolutely terrifying in terms of spot directing hahaha. I haven’t touched it for a few years because I’m afraid of embarrassment 
Although, I’m not exactly ashamed of it, because honestly, your first story really shows how far you’ve come as an author and a coder.
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Horribly directed, cliché, basic, and childish.
No, it didn’t have gangs, mafia, bad boy love interests, nor black screen author intros.
But it was about this group of seven friends, and each one of the girls would narrate a different chapter.
In the first chapter, they were at one of the friends’ house, and the camera would focus on one girl while the narrator described her. Like: ‘This is Gracie. She loves ballet and is an amazing decorator. She has three brothers, a dog, and a cat.’
And in the second chapter, the narrator described the mean girls as they each walked onto the screen with the blue lockers background.
‘Nadia is the queen bee of this school. She’s always insulting me, blah blah blah’.
And the plot was basically that there was going to be a school dance, and the girls had to invite someone to the dance. I can’t believe I actually wrote something like that.
It was early 2017, and the story was in INK.
My first 2 stories were trashy 
No spot directing, barely any lines, etc.
But all of that trial an error has allowed my to learn and grow; now I’m working on an INK story which I hope to publish by mid June.
OMG, it was basically just a copy of every royal story ever. It was about a princess being forced into marriage after her father died so she had to choose between three princes to marry and I managed to make all three of them into some sort of cliche. You had the bad boy, the childhood best friend and the sweet golden boy 
No spot directing, party scene without any background characters, LIs were shorter than the MC, I didn’t know how to code choices and the dialogues were… Bad to say the least. Thankfully I learned a lot and now I published my new story with very advanced directing, complex choices and tried to stay away from cliches. I cringe just thinking about that princess story tho… Like girl what were you doing?
My first story isn’t too bad.
I revamped a couple of times. I still need to revamp chapter 3.
It is unfortunate you received hate mail. You have start somewhere I guess🤷🏾♀️
I am taking my time with the first story. My second story will be finished before my first story so…
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I’m currently revamping my first and only story that I started making in 2019 (I do it in parts, the first 3 chapters are already revamped and published). I wouldn’t say it was VERY bad, but the directing and the way how I portrayed the characters and scenes could be much better. I have really improved myself in these 1,5 years, so I’m using that for the revamp and my new, upcoming story. I’m actually kinda proud of myself 
I would like to think generally the plot was good in my first story but the spot directing, animations and fluency of the whole thing was so off
I’m actually currently rewriting it
My first story hit around 70k reads and I’m so ashamed that that many people lived through it
I’m still writing my first story, I’ve published 22 chapters but whenever i read it as a reader, i absolutely hate it but it still has 65k reads i dunno how
Okay, so my first story, Blind Date, currently has 19.6k reads, but I went through it out of boredom and I noticed so many little errors and as a perfectionist-- I feel like it could have been way better. My directing was so basic and my dance class is so bad the spotting–yeash.
And I left it as an open ending so I got so many “what about the ending” fanmails… I guess open endings aren’t really a thing on here?