October 2025 Writer Support Thread

I think I am going to do this or well something similar to this, I have a character idea in mind and I feel like it would fit and add to the mythos of the story.

Only minor issues are that 8 ROs are going to be fun to write and well, it ruins the seven deadly sin theme I had going with the ROs or maybe it adds to it idk yet.

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Good news: I figured out what’s been bothering me with my space opera.

Bad news: it covers over half of what I’ve written so far.

Trying to decide it that’s what I’ll want to do next month, or if I’ll rather write another story.

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Perhaps the 8th is a paragon of virtue… or perhaps they encompass ALL the sins, because this is totally the option I would pursue (in game! Obviously :sweat_smile:)

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Their sin is hypocrisy.

They condemn all seven normal sins, refuse to indulge in them in the commonly accepted way, but end up committing them in other, less obvious ways.

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This might be a good idea, and it would allow me to swap around some of the themes.

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Would be a good subversion, we will see.

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The 8th sin is fashion crimes.

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Summer brought with it some unique obstacles, but we’re steadily moving forward again.

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I don’t know how, but I somehow read ā€œSith fashion crimesā€. (Which… I’d agree, but I digress.)

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Happy Halloween! What a month. I wrote so much, and still have not finished day 1 of my game TT. Hope others fared better on meeting their goals.

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…I’m having an urge to name a project Series Cancelled just for the experiment of seeing how confused people would get…

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I didnt have goals but I did reanimate a corpse. Metaphorically, to be clear.

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Any month you can reanimate a corpse is a good month, IMHO.

Now I want to play a high fashion game set in the star wars universe. ā€œThese are not the accessories you are looking for . . .ā€ but who am I kidding, the Wookie would win it all.

For my goals I did finish getting my Halloween jam entry done, though I had to switch it from Blood & Blooms to a slightly more modest WIP entitled Celtic Cry . . . Celtic Cry ended up being around 43k long roughly, between that and the 50k plus I did for Blood & Blooms I am pretty exhausted at this point . . . if writing, coding, and game creation are magic and magic always has a price then I think I’m paying it right now in terms of Ugh . . . while I’d really like to do nano next month I think my tank is pretty empty at this point, so I might give it a skip this time and concentrate on getting my updates for Sense & Sorcery and All the Way done. Will be nice to get going back to these and feel kind of bad that I’ve kept people waiting, though happy I got two new WIPs out of the jam. Kind of wish I had the energy left to do that new music jam one just announced as that would be right up my alley, but maybe next year if that one runs again.

Not this month again for pretty much the same reasons (I need to get my updates for my WIPs rolling before I want to advertise them more and life is to hectic right now) but maybe in December if you have the same question. Thanks for offering this option – its a really cool idea.

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I did this, that was the result, and it honestly feels… about the same. But I’m not going to complain; progress is progress, however I conceptualize it.

Happy Halloween to those still in October (and who celebrate). It’s not really much of a thing here in Australia, but I did see some kids out and about in costume, and a few decorated houses around town yesterday. Maybe it’s catching on. :slight_smile:

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i got SUPER CLOSE to accomplishing this, so i am pretty stoked about that. i’m hoping hoping hoping that a mid-November prologue + chapter 1 demo drop is legitimately feasible.

(sticking to a rule of writing at least 1 sentence a day, every day—only exception being major crises or exceptionally horrendous days, which i only had to ā€˜cash in’ once!—has been actually supremely helpful. there have been several days where i do write just one sentence, but it helps so much with keeping me feeling competent and confident that i can pick back up the next day and keep chipping away at it.)

excited to see everyone keep kicking ass in november :slight_smile: it’s getting cold asf here in houston (by my standards, at least—i constantly surprise myself by how little i’m able to tolerate sub-65 degrees Fahrenheit weather)

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Didn’t reach my goal, got like half way but writers block got to me. We are going to finish this month unless I get slimed out again.

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Halloween Jam :white_check_mark: I enjoyed writing this (even if it did feel a bit rushed in places) Great learning process too, to get an idea of a whole choice novel from start to finish.

Ectocomp :cross_mark: left this way too late, I was intending on a 4-hour petit submission, but it took weeks to come up with a concept, and then I was too busy and only spent an hour on it! Oops!

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It’s November.