Ahh okay, thank you for the clarification Leora. In other words, don't join a contest if you don't plan on following through. 

So everyone has to enter a contest at some point?

Thank you for the link, I appreciate the help Leora. 

Do you have an example I would understand? You've peaked my curiosity, even though I doubt I would be able to figure it out, I'm currently struggling with the just the basic tools this site gives me. 

I keep seeing the word script thrown around on the discord and the forums, but to be honest I have no idea what it is.

Is this a normal amount of people to have failed to submit anything for a contest?

That is a good point, maybe I should try and scale back my story right now, it might be better for me to just put out a decent short story for my first time instead of going for the long version of what I have envisioned. 

None the less, it's pretty interesting to hear everyone's different thoughts on the matter, even EndMaster's revealed something of note. There are some who enjoy the planning more than the writing while others just sit down and crank out stories and others still do not concern themselves with keeping track. I don't think I've figured out what category I fall into just yet though. Next story I write ( that's assuming I can get through this current one) I'll probably try and plan it out beforehand and see how that goes over. 

It seems I might have made a grave error after reading your guy's posts. I was never all that much for planning I suppose but still. I might have been jumping the gun in terms of my story considering no planning too place. This is probably going to bite me in the ass later down the line but o well. Still, I appreciate the insight everyone, to be honest, I wasn't expecting much in the way of replies. I didn't really know this site had such an active forum community. I'm glad to see I was mistaken. 

Seems to me you have a thing for writing in hotel rooms, is there an interesting reason behind that?