What was your first story about?
It was about a girl from a privileged but very destroyed family, who decided to stay back in the US with her elder sister when her parents decide to move to Vienna for her mother’s job opportunity. She’s pretty lost at first, stumbling into a bar her first night alone and makes out with a random guy, who she meets again later in school … If you’ve read my second story (Being Perfect) this may sound familiar in some points … 
I may have taken this attempt on a story and taken it as my own inspiration for it.
Did you publish it? If so… did you archive it once episode released the archive feature?
Yes, unfortunately. And hell yes! I did! I even locked, renamed and deleted the summary for it, a few days after publishing it …
What inspired you to start writing it?
Honestly, I just went to the portal to look at it and was hooked by the coding because I didn’t understand how it worked and just had to figure it out. I cannot stand not understanding things. I didn’t think too much about the plot or characters. I just wanted to code. Spoiler: You could tell! xD
Did you read the tutorial guides and guidelines before you started writing it?
I always had a second tab open, with the tutorials, while trying to do scenes. This is how I figured out directing. I had no idea that there was a forum or YouTube tutorials. So, trial and error it was. A lot of it. And yes, I read the guidelines. I wasn’t sure how swearing would be judged. So, I went back and censored it all (this was in 2017).
How far have you come since then?
I’ve published 3 more stories, all different and completed two of them. I learned a new style (Limelight), I won a contest and sold a story to the app. So, I like to think that I’ve made a lot of progress. But thinking back to my first story still holds a lot of valuable learnings for me. So many mistakes, so many errors, so much to learn from them.