I miss Canadá! 
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I do too, but I’m going to keep trying. One of these missiles is bound to hit it eventually.
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Grats! That’s definitely a good way to kick off the month, and not just for writing!
Happy belated Canada day. It was my first in the country!
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My goal for this month is for me to create “Beneath a Bloodred Dawn” prologue and start working on chapter 1. Also maybe flesh out the MC’s background stories.
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If that makes you feel any better, I would have laughed out loud at this if I came across it while reading.
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I’m really really happy to have reached one of my goals! (publishing my wip)
Now, as for the writing itself…I don’t think the first chapter will get to 30k (20k max I’m thinking) but I decided that it’s fine too. I’m often worried about things like word count as I try trying to fill the page with things that are exactly that, filler. But I realise that a story needs to be good before anything. It will take a while to get out of this mindset but I’d say I’m on the right path.
To a happy July! 
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Mmm. July. Certainly a month of the year, and predicting some pretty bad heatwaves and power outages resulting from it. Dont you just love summer? Thats what I get for being born so close to the Sahara.
Regardless of my woes. This month is rather simple in goal but large in actual work. That is to work the next action segment. Which would include finally making stats and making them change and having fail options. As well as taking into account whatever items one may have purchased. Certainly is a lot of work for what may just be around 5k or so words (number straight out of my ass) worth of content in one playthrough. But it is that variety that makes it a CYOA.
Outside of this goal. I hope everyone enjoys July!
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In my place, the heatwaves have mostly passed. I can now return to writing romance scenes, though I’d also like to revise the rest of my story to make sure the grammar is fine and the worldbuilding is consistent.
Speaking of worldbuilding, does anyone have any ideas on how to make a setting unimaginably horrible in a comedic, absurdist way? I mean stuff like people shaving themselves with butter knives and constantly paying royalties because the corporations own the copyright on their thoughts. Asking for a friend.
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I’d recommend watching shows like black mirror or the twilight zone! I’m sure you can get many ideas from them. 
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The summer is absolutely awful, at least for me. Also i don’t know about others but it makes me extremely sleepy which means less time to write…
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Is it normal, Waiting more than a year without a positive response? Or do I have just bad luck?
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Eh, I don’t think shows like these will give me many interesting ideas. Their horrors-per-episode ratio seems pretty small, and neither is particularly comedic most of the time.
If some story will give me inspiration, it will be something like the Cruelty Squad video game. Some work where the setting is just filled to the brim with satirical trash and ends up horrible at every level. But I already studied that game, as well as lots of dystopian fiction, so I think I’m running out of things to explore.
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Oh, I think black mirror does have comedy aspects, but perhaps you’re looking for standard comedy whereas black mirror leans on dark comedy more. Sorry I couldn’t help, I hope you find what you’re looking for!
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Science fiction short story collections would potentially give you a lot of glimpses into varied and sometimes absurd settings for little time spent. If you want specific ideas, how about a world where most people spend all their time in virtual reality aside from a sad group of noncompatibles who are forced to exist in the mundane real world because their bodies reject the experience? A similar notion was going to be explored in one of the theoretical sequels to Nuclear Powered Toaster. Or one where thoughts are displayed in holographic form beside a person so that anyone who thinks ‘wrongly’ can be shunned. Always lots of such concepts if you noodle around on them a bit.
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I hope no one minds me posting so much on here.
July keeps getting better for me in the writing department!
My wip has received so much love so far and it has made me so happy. Everyone on here is so nice and I couldn’t be more grateful to be part of this community, I just wish I joined it earlier but better late than never.
I’ve also had so many ideas for my game and my prologue is so close to being finished! I plan on updating it in a couple of weeks, wish me luck!
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In today’s news: I woke up with a case of “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” (which is actually an improvement, but I digress), and now I want to make an achievement with that name, but can’t decide what would grant it.
(I also want to make an achievement named “Stars Are Wrong”, but I know what that one is for. Wondering if story progress markers should be hidden achievements or not, though.)
Depends, I guess. Obviously I have knowledge only of Finnish publishers, and book ones at that (apart from the magazine I volunteer in), but from I’ve gathered, a year without any kind of response doesn’t sound particularly special.
You know, now I want to make one where they do that because they want to have speech bubbles.
Good luck!
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Hey, that’s an idea. I might implement it somewhere—probably not in the game I’m writing here, but some piece of side material could be a place for that.
In general though, I’m not drawn to such stories and antologies because they usually try to say something meaningful about society or technology. I don’t want to say anything meaningful. I want a world where the judicial system is ran by Judge Death, who noticed that over 90% of
crimes are committed by living people and decided that life itself should be punishable by death. Or something similarly cheerful.
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Black comedy examples from TVTropes might be of use there?
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With so many absurd and horrific things going on, perhaps highlighting a piece of normality amongst all of this would serve to bring the whole over the top.
Your writing already leans into this in your presentation, so I feel an intentional high-lighting of the situation this way is something you are more than capable of pulling off.
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I got some negative responses which can be divided in:
- Too long;
- Interesting but out of this month theme;
- Not bad but not interested.
From what I gathered in various conversations, my country publishing world is very elitist… and then you can find books written by pre teens on the shelves because they have a youtube gaming channel, not even a storytelling channel.
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