Young Writers Society

THANK YOU <3 sorry it took so long!!

I was thinking Neyti could potentially play a role in the escape plan since they're a wealth of database knowledge. And because they're always being tinkered with, their personality will probably be different every time Gena runs into them. She might catch them on a good day when they feel like helping her out, and then the next time they might try to report her xD

OOOO i love that idea, Netyi being both helpful and unhelpful lol

I'm a bit behind on posts, so I will read them this week, hopefully catching up by this weekend

Heya! I'm so sorry I was not around. I'll be catching up before the new year and formulating a post

OH BLESS!!! I look forward to it @Vincian!!

Welcome back, @Vincian! I can't wait to see your post. <3 <3

OK ok ok okokokokok hello all it has been a hot minute since this SB has seen some posting activity aaaah

@Wolfical @magebird @vincian @Oxara
Poking everyone firstly to check on interest and see how ya'll are feeling about the story. Are you excited? Tired? Do you want to keep writing?

I just figured I should be honest and tell ya'll I'm personally feeling a bit tired and I don't know if I have as much vision/energy as I thought I did to carry this SB, but if all of ya'll really want to keep going, then I'm down for us moving forward together.

Basically, I've got two questions, but the first one is the most important:

Ya'll still down to keep writing?

I honestly want you guys to be as honest as possible because I know I am trying to be asdlkfhlk. Over the last month I honestly kept thinking about maybe pulling the plug on this SB because I may have overcommitted myself with storybooks and this is the one out of the two that I'm running that I'm not as pumped about.

DON'T GET ME WRONG - I love writing with all of you guys. I'm just not sure I'm vibing as much with the story anymore.

I know Ommy/Vincian is looking to get an outline for a new post started somewhat soon, and we mentioned :,) well... hoping that it revives energy for this SB for me.

But I also have another question, if we do want to keep going...

Would ya'll be cool with writing smaller posts? Would that help with being able to post more frequently?

I noticed in LSS, having post wordcount requirements at like, a 250 minimum made it a lot easier to post more, and while we obviously don't have to post at the rate of 10+ posts a week, I wonder if it would help take off some pressure and make things a little more casual and fun. It would mean less hard planning on the front end for us - and we could still DO longer posts, but we wouldn't have to always. We could do littler posts and smaller interactions without the pressure of having to come up with a lot more?

You guys can tell me if you'd be cool with loosening up the plot a bit to add more room for just shenanigans and shorter posts. Obviously, there's still the overarching plot - these guys need to form friendships or some type of bonds and escape. But how exactly that happens and what happens in between is flexible, and I'm not too worried about the details.

I'm not saying we throw away the whole WFP outline and everything - we can still use those ideas, we just don't have to do it in as strict of an order and with word count expectations or whatever

LET ME KNOW IF I'M MAKING SENSE OR IF YOU ARE VIBING OR NOT VIBING

I am holding this SB with very open hands and I will not be heartbroken if you're like please no or please yes or whatever IDK

JUST TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: BASICALLY - this is me trying to think of ways to breathe life back into this SB and I am open to other ideas!

bleh forgot @Wolfi u changed ur user

When I'm thinking of what the ending of the SB is, it's overwhelming to know there's a lot left to go - Gena only just "met" everyone for the first time! With that, though, I know that SBing is all about the journey and not the destination, so just having fun and learning from each other is what's important. If we do continue, writing shorter posts would certainly relieve some stress.

To be completely honest, I also don't have a lot of energy left for this SB or YWS in general as of late. I'm taking two writing classes this quarter, and I'm still a little burnt out from last quarter, so that might be part of it. However!! If the rest of you want to keep going at a more casual rate I'd totally be down. This SB has been lots of fun, and I haven't even gotten the chance to collab with any of you yet :(

I think smaller posts might help! Although I have to be honest, I am not a small post person so please just be patient with me for the near future. I am all for continuing this, though, because now that I have (finally) finished the posts, I have ideas on where things can go, and I think a conversation with Corden and Gina will be just wonderful. I mean, I was just thinking tonight about how the cast is getting a time constraint put on them with the fact that, if the guards all become robots, then no ship will ever have to come back to this desolate prison, and there goes their chances of escape!

@vincian PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS HERE BECAUSE MY IDEA WELL IS DRY

and also I SORRY I didn't mean to sound impatient ;-; I think I'm just feeling my own burnout and discouragement at the moment, but I don't mind waiting a bit longer for a long post - your posts are always TOP QUALITY and worth the wait

and aaahh @Wolfi it sounds like school has been super busy for you ;-; i totally get how that can wear you out

As for post lengths and stuff - I think really what I'm saying is I wanna keep it more casual? Like, people don't have to post 1k length posts, but if you want to, great! I know for me some of my posts might end up long because sometimes my brain works that way, but I just want to create room for people to feel less pressure and just write a little idea if that's all they got!

I know we talked a little bit about storybook burnout before you posted here, so you might already know my answer to your question. I've really enjoyed the storybook so far and would love to see its conclusion, but I think I've also been feeling burnt out lately. There's definitely nothing wrong with waiting, but my brain just isn't good with long waits in between posts - so it's easier for me to lose interest in between them. I don't have the same drive to complete this storybook that I did when I first started.

(But that's more of a me thing - I always have trouble sticking with my book ideas, too, so it's really not something specific to this storybook and its plot.)

If we do keep going with this storybook, I think shorter posts would be the way to go. I'm definitely down for longer posts if they're a result of inspiration spiking, but I think making shorter posts be possible would help me stayed involved in the story. I really love collaborating with other writers on posts, but writing long posts with other people tends to be what really drains me - so shorter, more independent posts would probably help!

On the other hand, I also wouldn't be too heartbroken if we decide to lay this storybook to rest for now. @soundofmind and I have lost some of our drive for this storybook, @Wolfi is burnout with school right now, and I know that @Oxara only just got back to the site and hasn't really been active in the DT in a bit.

I think either ending the storybook or making shorter posts would be a good call, but it does look like some of our original motivation and energy isn't really here anymore.

Well, I do have an outline for a small post done! @Wolfi this post is basically just interaction between Gena and Corden. I know you're feeling burnt out, so I can go ahead without you but it's just a small interaction and I would like your input on the outline (and hopefully it's an easy to understand interaction because my outlines are weird sometimes) and how Gena would react in the exchange. I have a lot of what Corden would say in my outline, so I'm gonna go ahead and post it below ^^ please let me know what you think when you have time <3

That's a wonderful outline, @Vincian!! : D

For the specific part you wanted my input on:

Feel free to message me on discord if you need to!

ok so maybe all i needed was a littol collaby and outline-ness to make me go awe ;-; ,,, story

i just want 2 collab das all I want

yes this means I'm more down w/the story than 48 hrs ago lol