so, to the writers... what was the terrible novel you wrote at 14? Mine was about a redhaired freedom fighter called Eleanor Sunstripe

Discworld as written by someone who didn't understand what made Discworld tick.

A bunch of comics, not a novel. But it was about a bunch of idiot skater/stoner dudes, 100% inspired by Green Day and the 3 movies that featured "cool teens" I had seen. Which I turned into a graphic novel 20 years later!

A Terry Pratchett rip off, where people lived on a world the shape of a donut, so on the inside of the ring they could look up and see foreign countries in the sky far above them. I have no memory of the plot, but remember there was a pages-long build to a pun (which I have also forgotten).

the one i will cop to was about a middle-aged woman who deals with her son’s death by doing a bunch of drugs and fucking her son’s best friend. there was also some torture porn stuff because it was 2005 and i was 16 and i loved garbage more than anything else in the world

Psychics fighting for their human rights in a far-future off world colony.

An attempt to mash up Hitchhiker's Guide with Arthurian legend, by someone who knew very little about either.

Diary of a Killer. I remember it included a sex scene where I wrote "and reader we'll draw a veil over that" because I had no idea how sex actually happened.

it was about a trio of misunderstood teenagers who stop a cruise ship hijacking with obvious links to a Mr Miyagi type character, the neighbour who was tending to their parents' gardens while they were away

Mine was a barely disguised rip off of the British sci-fi TV show Blake's 7.

Mine was an interpretation of the Book of Henoch and the fall of angels with the first light being a woman. people just wanted her to be pretty and decorative, instead she lit the way to a rebellion in heaven. I was an angry child.