# January 2021's Writer Support Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Writing and Content\ **Created:** [January 2, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392 "2021-01-02T00:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eiwynn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/eiwynn/32/221334_2.png) [@Eiwynn](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Eiwynn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/1 "2021-01-02T00:32:40Z")
Welcome all to the support thread for January 2021. šŸ—“ šŸ¾ šŸ•› If it seems that December was a tough month for you, I share that same feeling. I am going to be a bit quieter this upcoming month, because I do not see it getting any easier. Thank you, everyone that continues to participate in these threads ā€“ it helps others when you do participate, sometimes more than you think. Iā€™d also like to suggest new writers visit @poison_maraā€™s Workshop Thread and Game Jam Thread. I have not yet set goals for this month. ---
**Author:** ![AMER1CANN1NJA09](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/amer1cann1nja09/32/96292_2.png) [@AMER1CANN1NJA09](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AMER1CANN1NJA09)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/2 "2021-01-02T00:41:17Z")
šŸ¤• I think the pandemic hit us all a little to hard last year. Let us hope it is better this year ---
**Author:** ![AChubbyBlackCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/achubbyblackcat/32/242883_2.png) [@AChubbyBlackCat](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AChubbyBlackCat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/3 "2021-01-02T01:07:22Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/fxInzCK.gif) ](https://i.imgur.com/fxInzCK.gif) No set goals either beyond keep doing the two sentences per day goal. Hope everyoneā€™s 2021 has more good days than bad days! ---
**Author:** ![Goddess](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/goddess/32/9708_2.png) [@Goddess](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Goddess)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/4 "2021-01-02T02:45:39Z")
**My Goals:** because i love goals - Finish chapter two of ZD - Write some of my actual novel - Read three books Good luck to everyone else. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Jackpot1776](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/jackpot1776/32/128171_2.png) [@Jackpot1776](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Jackpot1776)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/5 "2021-01-02T05:32:51Z")
This monthā€™s goals: - 30,000 words - finish chapter 2 - maybe chapter 3? ---
**Author:** ![Rinnegato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/rinnegato/32/144531_2.png) [@Rinnegato](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Rinnegato)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/6 "2021-01-02T07:02:06Z")
After December my goal is: justā€¦ writeā€¦ _anything_. ---
**Author:** ![Jaybirdy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/jaybirdy/32/124926_2.png) [@Jaybirdy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Jaybirdy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/7 "2021-01-02T14:11:25Z")
Writing goal: write something every day. Stretch goal: 2k words a week all month. Weā€™ll see how I do here, heh. I really need to get another chapter out on both my projects; at a certain point it just feels really disappointing when I havenā€™t been able to manage it in what feels like too long. ---
**Author:** ![Lucid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lucid/32/39775_2.png) [@Lucid](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lucid)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/8 "2021-01-02T16:44:51Z")
January! Itā€™s a bit of a strange month for me. Weā€™re in lockdown again, but with more expectations for working from home. I think Iā€™ll have a decent amount of time. Not like summer, but better than the fall. Well, my goal canā€™t be word count this time. So, I think Iā€™ll go with this: - Finish proofreading my recently written scenes. - Add the 4 things Iā€™ve placed on my to-do list, although they may get added by Alpha Testing. - Alpha Test at least once to the very end, fixing all errors on the way. - And finally, do more Alpha Test playthrus. 21 ends, 6 races, 5 departments, and countless combinations of choices, including: parent good/bad, psi/cyber, 6 ROs, raising a child, various upgrade combinations of the robo-pet, various branches of possible scenesā€¦ Iā€™m tempted to try to finish Alpha for January, but I think that might be unreasonable. Just having one finished error-free play through would be fulfilling enough. šŸ™‚ Also, I donā€™t know how long that will take, but I know the first completed play will take way longer than each subsequent. Good luck everyone with your own various goals! ---
**Author:** ![Shyranno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/shyranno/32/134305_2.png) [@Shyranno](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Shyranno)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/9 "2021-01-02T18:17:31Z")
Good luck, everyone! Creation should be fun and playful. If you find yourself too stressed, please pull back a bit! Itā€™s easy to end up creatively burnt out, so please remember that youā€™re immensely important, and that your self worth most definitely does not lie solely in the amount of words you can crank out each day. Enjoy the process, friends. Itā€™s going to be _awesome_. āœØ > **Personal Goals** > > -Finish outlining every chapter, down to the nitty gritty. > -If possible, start work on Chapter One. ---
**Author:** ![Gilbert\_Gallo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/gilbert_gallo/32/124893_2.png) [@Gilbert\_Gallo](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Gilbert_Gallo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/10 "2021-01-02T18:54:49Z")
Happy new year everyone! Iā€™m sure weā€™ll do wonders in this new year! Never stop writing! Art and beauty will save the world! ---
**Author:** ![Cierra\_Lawson\_Writes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/cierra_lawson_writes/32/136013_2.png) [@Cierra\_Lawson\_Writes](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Cierra_Lawson_Writes)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/11 "2021-01-02T19:20:49Z")
I hope things get better for you, Eiwynn!!! On my side of things, my main focus is just to keep up a pace of 500 words a day or 1,000 every two days in case I need a break day. Not sure how thatā€™s going to go though, given I should be starting a new job soon. But! Hereā€™s to hoping things donā€™t have to change too much, right? I also want to be more responsive to other WiP authors I followā€¦ we all need to support each other!! ---
**Author:** ![Wesker22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/wesker22/32/74927_2.png) [@Wesker22](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Wesker22)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/12 "2021-01-02T19:30:25Z")
I echo the same feelings. Hope it gets better soon, Eiwynn. Me Iā€™m gonna try my best to finish my current wip and then finally update my other one. Fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![Lidell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lidell/32/134453_2.png) [@Lidell](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lidell)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/13 "2021-01-02T19:48:33Z")
Happy New Year! Iā€™m going to start taking note of my daily word count again this month, and will be trying to get chapter 3 of my wip finally done. Iā€™m starting college again soon, so I donā€™t know how that will go, but Iā€™m hoping I can do it. I also keep telling myself to write something just for fun but never actually do it. I donā€™t think Iā€™ll have time for that this month, but if I can squeeze it in somewhere Iā€™ll do it. Good luck to everyone. May we be healthy and happy during 2021 šŸ¤— ---
**Author:** ![poison\_mara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/poison_mara/32/271676_2.png) [@poison\_mara](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/poison_mara)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/14 "2021-01-02T20:11:38Z")
I donā€™t want depressing anyone, so Good luck anyone else with your goals. You can do it worse than me. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/elysian/32/83844_2.png) [@Elysian](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/15 "2021-01-02T20:37:17Z")
Last year was a surprisingly good one for me. My final wordcount stands at 233,000, and Iā€™m going to keep up the resolution of writing a certain amount every day. Becoming disciplined about it has greatly helped my productivity, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike. This definitely needs to be the year I post a public WIP, too! My first written scene of 2021 is part of a side quest, where the MC explores the desert palace of a rival sorcerer, to get revenge for some wyverns he tricked. It was partly inspired by the fantasy/horror fiction of Clark Ashton Smith, and partly by those two gay penguins in the zoo who kept trying to hatch egg-shaped rocks. Make of that what you will. ---
**Author:** ![AChubbyBlackCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/achubbyblackcat/32/242883_2.png) [@AChubbyBlackCat](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AChubbyBlackCat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/16 "2021-01-02T20:52:34Z")
Revisiting my Exhaustion mechanic after I got confused how it would workā€¦ The more I think about it, the more I wonder why I included this stat. I could easily use Injuries to replace whatever the Exhaustion stat is doing, so I might scrap this. It wonā€™t be used in skill checks and only prevents readers from investing skill points into skills/abilities. So a minor obstacle at best. Thankfully I donā€™t _think_ its removal will have much of an impact that Iā€™ll need to do major revision elsewhere. Wish me luck. ---
**Author:** ![Elwyn123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/elwyn123/32/135821_2.png) [@Elwyn123](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Elwyn123)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/17 "2021-01-02T23:25:25Z")
I havenā€™t written anything significant for a long time, and since getting back into choice games Iā€™ve kind of wanted to. Not sure if I have the time, but it would be nice to have a reason to put pen to paper. ---
**Author:** ![poison\_mara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/poison_mara/32/271676_2.png) [@poison\_mara](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/poison_mara)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/18 "2021-01-02T23:34:11Z")
I know how hard it is starting again after being out of writing. You just have to spread your wings and just mark a goal you are comfortable with something like 250 words every day or any amount you like. ---
**Author:** ![J.J.Guest](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/j.j.guest/32/103172_2.png) [@J.J.Guest](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/J.J.Guest)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/19 "2021-01-03T13:24:26Z")
This sounds amazing. I am a huge fan of Clark Ashton Smith, my favourite of the ā€˜big threeā€™ of Weird Tales. ---
**Author:** ![Luiza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/luiza/32/117509_2.png) [@Luiza](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Luiza)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392/20 "2021-01-03T20:32:16Z")
Happy 2021 everyone! My goal for this month is to get out of my own head, stop overthinking everything, and just _write_. Iā€™m hoping to make some good progress on my game for the Valentineā€™s Day Game Jam and come up with something that, while not perfect, I can hopefully be proud of. Good luck to everyone this month, I know we can do this! If last year has taught us anything, itā€™s that weā€™re tougher than we think. [Next page](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2021s-writer-support-thread/92392.md?page=2)