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Sage

The Fury of the Forest

For Endmaster's Crisis contest.

An ancient evil has been awakened...

Honor Among Thieves

unpublished

Springberry Morning

unpublished

It's kind of funny because fluttershy was one of the reasons I started reading more about other religions. (I had always been interested in Native American religions before that but otherwise only looked at the Bible and didn't know too much about the classic cultures or modern ones). And Blister was the reason I wanted to try and write about them. fluttershy's thread though convinced that if I was going to stay a Christian I at least needed to make sure I never looked that fucking stupid and afraid of everything. (I think Sikhism is very cool now actually, it combines monotheism with modern ideas about equality and I think will go much further removing some people's misgivings about God being tied to older and uglier cultural ideas... once they stop teaching that men can't cut their hair and have to wear turbans lol.)

holy crap this thread blew up, I'll have to read this all more closely later.

I was really surprised to be asked for an interview, especially next to an ummm infamous author like Darius. I'm going to have to start reading these more often.

Than you Mystic so much for making this possible, it a so much fun and I'll make sure to be around for the next one too. And a big thanks to Fabrikant for the gifts, you have a lot of talent and I loved them all so much! Those of you who sent out a ton of gifts to everyone are amazing too, I don't know how you managed that. Next year I hope to be able to participate in the guessing game too, I didn't this year because I really had no idea about any of them but MHD's drawing for Avo.

Lots of people don't have games, I just laughed when I saw they were drawing attention to the fact they weren't even trying. Not surprised they got banned.

I was being sarcastic. Naz making this thread was a terrible idea, that's the joke.

This thread was such a great idea.

Welcome! Do you know what user suggested the site?

I'll try that. For me it's just there's such a difference between thinking a plot out that can be this big sweeping thing that just springs up in your head and then all you have to do is write it out, versus just having a base to start with and having to build on it bit by bit in all different directions. It's like an author sitting down and thinking a little while and then going, "Okay, so this lawyer gets invite out to an old castle to close a deal, but eventually realizes his host is a vampire and he's being held prisoner. He tries to attack the vampire and that forces him to flee the castle. Later, a ship washes up elsewhere carrying cargo from the castle's owner, and strange things begin to happen. When a friend of his fiance's becomes mysteriously ill and transforms into a vampire, they're able to put two and two together and then use his letters to trace the problem back to the source..." and then just writing it out and having the most famous horror novel of all time. Versus having to go "well, there's a castle with a vampire, and you go there and uh, various things can happen depending on where it makes sense to put a choice, and what makes sense to happen after that, and what I have time for". The main plot idea you have first where everything fits together doesn't get to be anymore important than the others. Making sure I know all my endings first and the point of each path like Fabrijant suggested makes sense and may be easier if I have sonething specific to work towards.

Does anyone else just have a fundamental difficulty conceiving of the branching parts of a story? That's the most important thing here and always what trips me up, I could write a 100k word novel more easily than a CYOA a third that size.