Just writing atm, because I am close to the end of the book, but I had to look up a lot for this one, despite it being a complete bogus. But it all started with a show on Yamnaya (which I recently saw people criticize, but they were too late!)
So, what went into my story was Pontic-Caspian region, Yamnaya, CRISPR and proto-indo-europenian language... and like some vague teen memories about a certain pop-band.
Lol, I feel almost embarrassed, but that's how my mind works.
That sounds cool.
I get lost in vortexes of research all the time. I personally like the touch and love it when I can tell a writer has done research of their own.
Earlier in the year, I was on a massive endeavor about carrying capacities of different animals in comparison to various forms of vehicles. I also learned the differences between a wagon, carriage, cart etc. Fun times.
I bet!
I managed to prep tomorrow’s update, yay! And ended at 54.1K total, so getting to my 1K per day minimum.
Plus, I screwed around with changing the title of the book, hoping to get a bit better views. It is now called Lone Werewolf, to maybe avoid the omega verse vibe.
I also put a dramatic quote at the beginning of the description...
right now I am in the darkest portion of the book, and almost finished with a fantasy storyline scene, about to swing back to the relationship bit, before I move to the last fantasy scene, then it is basically the romantic scene and the final sequence. Which I actually have in stages this time, lol.
Should be slightly over 60K, I think
NaNoWriMo Update: Although I'm half-pleased with my project as a story, the wordcount is looking grim. At 16,000 words, I'm only about a 3rd done with less than half the month to go. My next four days will be slammed with work also. So, I've decided to bring the Xenomicon out of retirement. That's my parody series in which my Alien Fiction characters rill on an episode of a volunteer's series. I knock out these goofy satire episodes very quickly since it's the easiest thing to author ever. I need some volunteers.
Novels are preferred for the word count, but comics are an option. If you have a thick skin and think some free publicity cannot hurt (you poor fools), then I'm offering this service as a Novel-Writing-Month exclusive service.
That's so exciting! Good for you!
I'm around 20k words for the story right now. I'm quite pleased with the progression, since I just started a couple weeks ago and have been doing a lot of research for it. A lot, please, send sanity.
I sent a care package full of sanity. It got returned to sender. Apparently, I don't want it, you don't need it, and the post office won't touch it.
Seriously though, that does seem like an impressive degree of research. Are you writing a non-fiction project?
No.
Gods, I wish. I feel like that would justify it but really it's more that I need to know. Difference between English, French, and Italian cuts on dresses, in the Georgian and/or Victorian era, I got you, fam.
Want a recipe for a hair pomade made out of bear fat, I've got a book on it.
The carrying capacity of mules, oxen, dogs, or cows, this I also know.
Are you guys offering any sort of "prizes" for hitting goals for Inksgiving? Part of me wants to do a reward system for meeting a certain goal but I have no idea what to even offer. I don't think I have a following enough yet to offer bonus chapters yet. Drawing a picture, like some comic book artists are offering, cab be a lot faster than writing a good 1K word chapter. TBH, I'll just be grateful for any ink that I get this year.
I officially settled on -
Inksgiving Tiers (Starting November 20th at 3pm PST) -
1000 - Biweekly updates of short story
2000 - Weekly updates of short story
4000 - Updates of short story posted 3 days a week + TLOAW side story
8000 - Updates of short story posted every other day
15,000 - Updates posted daily + NSFW TLOAW scene!!
I didn't feel right asking for too much so I cut my numbers way down
I decided to not have reward for goals, in the end. I don't know what goals should I set and what kinda reward I could offer -- a short story, perhaps, would be my best bet. But, my stories have really different base of readers, -- setting a reward only for one story would be unfair, and having to write short stories for both is a little too much for me right now.
Nope. I am unable to get any ink because the videos are not loading by some reason, so I am not feeling like I can be asking for ink when i am not giving away any. Plus, I am barely keeping afloat with regular updates, and my current book is not gaining.
Edit: also, I threw in the towel and moved the story from BL to Drama.
I wasn't going to originally either, but then I figured I'd give people the option to have a NSFW scene added to the story plus my short story is already completed at 16k words so the only work for that to be posted for me is to copy and paste and schedule. I don't know if Tapas audience will enjoy the short story but it did pretty well on amazon when I first published it so I'm hoping people here enjoy it too
I had to put my main series on hiatus just so I could catch up on writing. Hopefully, I'll be able to start scheduling more chapters come January. I'll give away ink where I can but doing reward levels seems weird if you don't already have material prepared beforehand.
I feel entirely too new to it all to even know where to begin.
I do intend to post some 'behind the scenes' content, like having character art, dress designs, and links to videos I've used as research. I think that would be fun, but so far ahead of where I am right now.
I'm still trying to work my way to the first big moment of the story, where they all attend a gala/dance/ball thingy. It's a lot of fun to get to that point. I'm so particular about it all, I've been doing research on dresses, music, food, and what-not.
I've just been sitting here trying to not get that excited. Like, there's this big red DO NOT TOUCH button, I'm calling the 'drama bomb' and I just wanna push it!
I JUST WANNA PUSH IT, you all!
Hahahahaha this times 1000!! Seriously! I love adding in drama! I had to really hold myself back from going overboard in my series! My original first draft had much, much more drama and my lovely beta reader was like 'tone it down'
I'm lucky that I'll be able to fairly seamlessly add in the NSFW scene after a chapter next week! It all just lined up nicely for me
Awesome-sauce.
I've been nervous about my mature chapters. I'm still not sure how I should mark them, so I'm taking the if it's more than PG-13, to do so.
I write in an R-rated style, generally, solely from the use of curses words and themes, so being here has been some restraint.
Glad the scenes are folding in nicely. Isn't that such a lovely feeling?
I know the feeling, my friend. It's tough. I have this super, wonderfully dramatic/angsty scene in my head that I WANT to write and share with everybody but it doesn't fit in with the current storyline. It's tough because I have to wait... 
and 
on 20K words!
