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>>15829>This is a travesty. The Cabal has been talking away here, and it’s become obvious that we will decidedly not be having a NaNoWriMo this year. Why? Because reasons.FUCK YOU. DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
Yeah, that’s right, fuckheads, we
are having a Nana Write More, and it’s gonna be fucking incredible.
“Whoa,” you say. “I thought we weren’t going to have it?”
Are you deaf? Because you heard fucking
wrong. Who the hell said that? The ‘Cabal’? I AM THE CABAL YOU PEASANTS. BOW TO ME AND please participate in Nanowrimo please please please I don’t want to be the only one participating.
“Wait. Moral, you can barely fucking update anything!”
To that, invisible talking voice, I reply: That’s what they say every year, but I’ve completed Nanowrimo twice now. I don’t know if I can make it a third time, but god damn it, I’ll try.
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Rules are fairly straightforward. Either you:
1) update thirty times in November, or:
2) write thirty-thousand words total before November 30.
Yes, you
can technically post 30k words in the last day, but you have to declare that you’re participating before Nanowrimo begins. If you don’t, you’re the first to be fed to the live sharks that were bought by the THP Patreon donor money (don’t fact check me on that). There will be no extensions, as per usual. Also, don’t worry too much about timezones—nobody gives a shit about your made-up timezone that’s 50 hours behind. You’re a human being, so you’re smart enough to keep track of your own days. Yes, there will be auditing, and no, you’re not that stupid enough to fake a timezone difference. Write anything you want—shorts, updates to existing stories, updates to a new story, yadda yadda, go fucking nuts.
...What? You asked if there are prizes? Uh. Shit. Don’t tell them about the prizes last year.
Fine. That’s right, last year had prizes. Here’s a quote from the 2018 thread that sums it up. If you managed to succeed in Nanowrimo:
>YOU can provide a story idea, a concept, a rough outline, or your shitty fetishes, and a group of volunteer writers will pick it up and write about it.By the way, I was one of those writers, and I have yet to finish one of the requested prizes. There are several more unfinished (anyone can pick them up, hint hint) that I have to answer for.
The prize this year will be the same.YOU can provide a story idea, a concept, a rough outline, or your shitty fetishes, and a group of volunteer writers (probably just me)
will pick it up and write about it.Whoa, before you burn me at the cross, I assure you that they will be finished. I won’t give you the same, boring excuses that I’ve made every few months or so (wahh, life getting to me, wahh, busy, etc.), so I’ll just say that I plan on keeping my promises. Plus, on the bright side, we probably won’t get many entries anyway this November so who cares?
YEAH, I’M CALLING YOU OUT. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT, WRITE? Hah, I don’t believe it.
Got questions? Well, me too. Ask away on the THP Discord:
https://discord.gg/UPHZMWySee ya, bozos. I’m off to begrudgingly finish writing the Nanowrimo 2018 rewards.
⋮ No. 15858 HEY FUCKWITS, GUESS WHAT?
Yeah, that's right. At the time of writing, it's currently 10/31/2019 over where I am. You know what that means. No, fuck your stupid made-up holidays. Yeah, the other thing - Nanowrimo. We have exactly one day, or maybe less depending on your imaginary timezones, to start this shit. No pressure or anything, but if any of you ninnies decide to pussy out now, then I'm going to have to send in the task force AKA the live sharks, now with new ground mobile unit capabilities. Yes, the Patreon funded that too. Point is, sharks and voluntary writing.
Now watch me fuck up on the first day and fail Nanowrimo.
⋮ No. 15884 Check this shit out. We're still fucking alive. Yeah, you sick fucks, it's been a week since Nanowrimo's started.
How has it been so far? Do you want to give up like the little bitch you are? Hell no. I feel good, and YOU should feel good, too.
No, but seriously, despite my lack of good health, I've managed to update TWO stories for Nanowrimo every day so far. Granted, one of them has a maximum word count per update (that I admittedly never follow), but you can catch my drift.
Hey, if I can update two stories per day while sick, then anyone can. Right? Right.
Now go get 'em, tiger, before I get the mecha-sharks (MK. II!) out again.
⋮ No. 15887>>15886I doubt I could help terribly much here. I only submitted my first story here because I'd grown so desperate to share it that I was willing to risk being laughed off the site rather than let it languish. So if it helps, I guess I could note that I was also terrified of that very thing when I first posted.
Beyond that, it may help to note that there's IRC channels and a discord you could potentially request feedback from before posting your story to the main site. I started there and found this stage much easier to commit to. Then, once it's done, you may find submitting the work itself to be a bit less daunting.
Finally, while I won't say it gets better overnight, I
will say that it has, at least for me, gotten a lot less scary over time.
Eventually, writing did become the hard part, though it took some time. ⋮ No. 15892>>15886Figuring out that Anon has no standards.
Okay, well, he does, but his standards are not as high as any writer is towards their own writing, because as the writer you can visualize what you were
trying to do as opposed to what you ended up doing, and then you make the mistake of assuming everyone can see that disparity when it's really just you.
So, uhhhh, take it easy, I guess? Anon won't rip you apart unless you're writing in script format and emotes
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I for one welcome our new shark overlords.
⋮ No. 15931
Yamabiko Speaks for the Silent: 31/30 updates, 12,384 words
Hakurō: 30/30 updates, 18,130 words
Total updates: 61
Total words: 30,514
Check it out, I managed to fulfill both conditions of Nanowrimo. I really thought that I wouldn't even come close, considering I wasn't trying to update two full-sized stories, but uh. Shit happens. Shitposts happen. I was really trying to pace myself with a self-imposed 100 word limit per update on my first story, but I decided I'm a fucking idiot and said, "Screw the rules, we're going to make November miserable." And despite this past week being my busiest, I believe I wrote the most words during that time - I felt particularly inspired on some updates, so the words just flew out of my keyboard. Weird, since I usually take a year to write five hundred words at a time.
Anyway, I'm physical sick, and I'm tired, and I want to play videogames wahhhh, so I'll see you all on the other side.
⋮ No. 15934 I came into this with basically no idea what I was doing. I come out of this with a probably poor idea for what I'm doing. But it'll get done, as long as a few people stick around, voting in and directing my absurdity. Final tally with November's end is 55,978 words and 13 updates, though I meant to shoot for the 30 update condition as well. Shockingly, with the average length of my posts, that was slightly very infeasible. Maybe one day I'll learn how moderation works, around about the same time I pen something that isn't awful smut.
Regardless, I know exactly what I'm throwing down as a request. It's got 3 parts:
First, pick a 2hu you like. Have multiple if you want; it's probable you'll need at least 2.
Then, pick at least 3 interesting fetishes. Standard holes don't count, nor do positions - but other than that, go with whatever feels in the spirit. Or just choose what you like. As long as they'd spice things up.
Once you have them in mind? Write porn, final caveat being it isn't male on female. Anything else, from something solo to genderbent yaoi, is totally fair game.
Essentially I just want something neat to pop up on /at/. If that happens, I'm happy.
⋮ No. 15937
According to my word processor, I did 30701 words spread over 22 updates for The Fifth Fellowship. My own personal goal was to replicate what I did for my Kagerou story last year which meant daily updates (of at least 1000 words) with nothing prewritten at all. For a variety of personal reasons, I wasn't able to do that this time around and, in fact, had to take a day or two off to decompress from life and its bullshit. This is also the reason why I only managed a single (2kish) word update for the other story.
My original instinct was to do shorter updates and have the story move faster but I'm a wordy dumbass.I enjoy world building, character interaction, and character development more than actually moving along plot. As the cliche goes: it's more about the journey than the destination for me.
Still, I don't plan on slowing down significantly and plan to maintain a similar pace when it comes to updating.
Congrats to everyone who participated and I hope that the people who read and voted continue to do so. As a community-focused site, it is your updates, your comments, your votes that keep this place alive and active.
⋮ No. 15940
>>15938>since none of the authors here were actually delivering on writing them a victory fic.I did one for another winner, and quickly. No excuses to those who didn't follow up. Unless they didn't take *my* suggestion in which case, well and good: part of the point of my suggestion was figuring that no one would take it.
Anyway, though my specific Nanowrimo story only made it to 29/30 updates, across my other stories I made... more. I know it's more than two at least. As for word count, the Nanowrimo specific one reached 20,000, and across the other updates looks like I didn't reach the other option of 30k. I wrote roughly 26,000 words, it seems.
I don't feel as good about
Severing Doubt as my other stories but it's been a neat experiment. I don't think it'll be many more updates til it finishes. Probably will reach a second thread, but end early in there.