The gator hunting one was interesting enough for Cajun s to watch it. I mean, I don’t even hunt–though I will fish. A lot of Cajuns still hunt, but the numbers that go for gators are far lower than that. Considering the times that I’ve seen gators cross heavy traffic, I’d hunt them with a junk car, not go out in the wild for them. Lmao
But the Cajun cop show was the dumbest ever. I know guys on there, too, and that’s sad.
Always!
It’s kinda fun.
Nah, we were fine. Plenty of men with jobs like mine have like wife and three kids to support. I am an MSc with no student debt, because my first degree was from Russia, then I worked right away in Canada, then worked as a TA throughout my MSc. We are both the only children, with Uni degrees, with an only child late in life. There is really no reason for me to be working with our kid out of the higher education pool.
Swimming pool and weight lifting are really good for thinking.
Lol, a fun bunch. Observing people can give you so many inspirations.
My work colleagues are such different people.
There are like two that are sort of “normal.”
The rest are:
This story idea I just came up with sounds pretty interesting.
A science-fantasy novel about a wanted serial killer and thief who decides to become a Knight (in my world, almost ANYONE can become a Knight) to make decent money and start a new lifestyle. Yet upon making good money and being a Knight, he learns a twistedly dark yet evil truth about not only the Knighthood Alliance, but the rest of the world as well. He escapes the Knighthood Alliance with a large thick book which serves as a journal holding the darkest secrets of the Knighthood Alliance. Now, the former criminal and Knight is on a road to redemption while trying to flee getting captured from the other Knights and anyone who wants to arrest him. Yet he is still traveling the world to understand what is really going on with some people who seek change in the world and from him.
Man, this story is weird yet interesting as hell!
Is serial killer and a thief in the first sentence 2 characters or 1? As for the rest of it, it’s the usual. It’s not the premise, it’s how you serve it. Tbh, I find the ‘seemingly honorable organizations are actually evil, and that one outlaw exposing them while running for his life’ a fun trope if a bit overdone.
The guy who played him is what I call “Classically pretty”. It’s funny. They fit within the range of what a lot of people would call attractive but don’t gain interest from others for being attractive. That haircut and the old age stuff didn’t do him any help.
It’s one person or rather one character.
The character kills randomly and steals too.
I mean yeah it is overdone. I just thought it needed something else.
I could make it where the character kills some Knights and steals from them then leaves and is being captured but eventually grows tired of the killing and stealing then decides to walk the path of redemption.
Actually, that sounds so much better in all honesty.
I agree. And walking around the gym as well.
My little brother used to be like this and it was kinda annoying.
Sounds fun 
This one kinda sounds like my character, Marvin lol.
Noo. Not one of those guys.
Old or young?
Like me
Just make a fake work questionnaire and probe his mind? 
Ugh! Much Frustration! I didn’t want to do this either!
I am truly sorry (apologizing to myself and anyone else), but I am going to have to place my anthology on a brief hiatus/break to do some serious story soul searching(too many words starting with the letter S). Things have been nagging at me and even though this anthology is great for the rough draft too much stuff is gnawing at me. I have to sit down and ponder what the hell I should do with my novels before history repeats itself yet again. So, I am taking only a small break from the novel that is two to three months then dive back into it.
I know I keep repeating, but Alterra is a massive world and I need to incorporate certain things in my current and future Tales of Alterra Novels. I have so much going on!
There is nothing bad happening just I need to really focus and do plenty of story-soul-searching.
Wish me some type of luck.
This Biff
Since it’s kinda coming up to the Wattys, I read an article on Fanficable (https://www.fanficable.com/post/how-hard-is-it-to-win-a-watty-odds-of-winning-a-watty), where they gathered the stats of previous years’ Watty entries to figure out the odds of winning a Watty Award and I have questions:
How did the Wattys in 2014 have so few entries? It wasn’t the first year of it. It was like the 3rd or 4th, IIRC. 2013 seemed to be more popular.
For some reason, it seemed to explode in 2018. I would have thought that it would have been more popular back in the earlier days because it still had Meebo instant messaging and millions of reads books back in 2013/1, IIRC.
Even the 2020 Wattys (the ones when the forums and newsfeed were eliminated) seemed to have more entries.
It’s also claimed that 2021 Wattys had similar amounts of entries to the 2020 awards, according to the report from Publishing Perspectives (2021 Watty Awards: An Asexual Romance Takes the Top Prize) without the newsfeed or forums to boost the Wattys popularity.
So, does having the forums/newsfeed to promote the awards matter if people are still flocking to it yearly? 
Does having fewer views really affect the chances of winning now? And also, what is Wattpad just using the Wattys to get more money out of authors for Wattpad Books/Paid Stories? (Will they push it more on Twitter to promote that aspect, and will Webtoon help promote it too?)
I think they made it too easy to enter, you just had to add the tag and too many crappy entries happened. So next year they changed the rules, made people fill out a form, etc.
Gosh, can you imagine having to check that many? Crazy.
I’m also guessing that 2014 the platform was much smaller.
I wasn’t on WP then.
Good point about the forms and checking entries, but I think that 50k is kinda steep. Maybe 35k/40k+ because some shorter stories should have been allowed into the main Wattys and not the shorts. And some stories don’t need to be bulked out and are good enough to stand on their own with fewer words.
From what I remember, stories did get read a lot more back then, but I am assuming that was because Wattpad has Meebo, Messages, Newsfeed, Forums and the read counter for the stories was a bit “off” and the algorithm was a lot easier to place in.
The platform may have been smaller, but WP was starting to peak around 2013/14, IMHO. Maybe WP seems ‘bare’ now because we don’t have the newsfeed and the forums are gone but yeah, there are more users registered from 2014 to now, and probably more ‘readers’ on books but since the read counter has been fixed, it’s probably more ‘accurate’ to what it really is, without the extra clicks.
Heh, I entered in 2018-2021, but in 2018 like @Kamiccola said, entry was so easy that I entered because I was confused. It let you once you had 5 chapters or something, lol. And the option came up the moment I posted 5 chapters, one of them intro, so I was like… sure!
I really like current rules. They help serious writers.
But that kinda takes the fun out of it, if the end game is just to end up on Wattpad Books alone. And as a Paid Story. I’d do it more for the exposure than anything.
