International World Creation Month

[Epic Meepo]

NaNoWriMo - oh... god... that's sad! Sad I say!

It's like telling Da Vinci, "Okay, I'm going to give you a thousand canvases, no goals, and a month. Do whatever you want with them. Oh, and don't bother making them any good, the only thing that matters is how much paint you use."

It's a motivational thing. Apparently, there are people out there who don't spend inordinate amounts of time writing stuff for the hell of it, and they won't actually write stuff unless they have a deadline to keep them motivated. *shakes head* Crazy non-compulsive writers.

[SA]

I give you permission.

not[/i] doing their job.

Having said that, I'll take up the challenge regardless.

[Elven Doritos]

NaNoWriMo - oh... god... that's sad! Sad I say!

It's like telling Da Vinci, "Okay, I'm going to give you a thousand canvases, no goals, and a month. Do whatever you want with them. Oh, and don't bother making them any good, the only thing that matters is how much paint you use."

It's a motivational thing. Apparently, there are people out there who don't spend inordinate amounts of time writing stuff for the hell of it, and they won't actually write stuff unless they have a deadline to keep them motivated. *shakes head* Crazy non-compulsive writers.

It's still bullocks.

[SDragon]

NaNoWriMo - oh... god... that's sad! Sad I say!

It's like telling Da Vinci, "Okay, I'm going to give you a thousand canvases, no goals, and a month. Do whatever you want with them. Oh, and don't bother making them any good, the only thing that matters is how much paint you use."

It's a motivational thing. Apparently, there are people out there who don't spend inordinate amounts of time writing stuff for the hell of it, and they won't actually write stuff unless they have a deadline to keep them motivated. *shakes head* Crazy non-compulsive writers.

to be fair, how many average people set out to create worlds? yknow, just for fun?

motivation is great and all, and i do admire people who can work hard enough to get out tens of thousands of words in under a month, but ultimately, this is recreation. the vast majority of us wont lose our jobs if we dont create a world, and even less of us havee a deadline to do so.

[Túrin]

It is odd... I spent about 45 minutes surfing around on the site, and saw 2 things:  one, no central theme to the site (which isn't, in-and-of-itself, necessarily a bad thing), and two, lots of "projects" that ask for a lot, but offer nothing in return.  Well, you guys are welcome to post your 50,000 word settings over there then; I give you permission ;)

Wait, that's a trick, right? Nobody actually has a 50,000 word setting to post there (Tasothilos and Altvogge might be exceptions).

@ Salacious Angel: You're actually going to try to create a new setting from scratch that will be bigger than your current largest setting in one month? Good luck.

Túrin

[Death_Jester]

Someone was asking about what the Harping Monkey board was, or what it was about.  The board is to support the listeners of their podcast strangely enough called ... the round table.  Ok, so it doesn't make sense but that is what they decided to call it.  Their podcast if free, so if you are of a mind just download a few of season 3's episodes.  Their theme for this season is World Building.  I thought that this community would be particularly interested in what they were talking about or at least mildly amused.  If I made an error please forgive me as I'm still sort of new and not really sure about what is acceptable or not.

I have enjoyed listening to the guys and gal in the round table podcast and wanted to bring a new resource to the community.  Once again if I have made an error then feel free to ignore it.

Thanks for your time in advance
Jester.

[Elven Doritos]

I have enjoyed listening to the guys and gal in the round table podcast and wanted to bring a new resource to the community.  Once again if I have made an error then feel free to ignore it.

It's not an error per se, really. A community built around a podcast, eh? Well, to each his own...

As a community of worldbuilders, people who constantly try to improve the quality of our work and get peer reviews, it just seems absurd to most of us; simply pumping out content for content's sake is a bit inane.

[Epic Meepo]

Why the harsh response, everyone?

Admittedly, World Creation Month doesn't fit my own motivational style, and I was confused about what Harping Monkey was all about. I suspect the same is true for many folks here.

But damn, dude. Death Jester isn't selling anything; he's just pointing out a non-commercial event that happens to coincide nicely with the stated purpose of these boards.

This is the first time that I've ever seen the CBG community attack someone who is legitimately talking about the topic of world creation. So what if he's talking about it from a different perspective? If Monte Cook posted here saying he wants submissions for his publishing house in less than a month and he won't be able to offer any feedback, would we trash him, too?

Worse, should members of the CBG get lambasted on other message boards every time they suggest that someone bring their campaign setting to the CBG, just because the CBG has a different approach and a different level of commitment to world building?

This is the first time I've ever been embarassed by the cliquishness of our community. If people at other sites are so exited about our community that they come here to ask us to create content for them, unless their selling something, I say let them come. How is the CBG going to grow if we mock anyone who sees our community as a resource for world builders everywhere?

[Wensleydale]

We're not having a go at him. We're laughing at the idea...

[Epic Meepo]

Since when did the members of the CBG deride the ideas of others just because they don't work for us, personally? What's next, mocking ideas for campaign settings that don't seem, from our perspective, to be well thought out? After all, trashing someone's campaign setting is just mocking the idea, not going after the person, right?

[Elven Doritos]

Why the harsh response, everyone?

Admittedly, World Creation Month doesn't fit my own motivational style, and I was confused about what Harping Monkey was all about. I suspect the same is true for many folks here.

But damn, dude. Death Jester isn't selling anything; he's just pointing out a non-commercial event that happens to coincide nicely with the stated purpose of these boards.

This is the first time that I've ever seen the CBG community attack someone who is legitimately talking about the topic of world creation. So what if he's talking about it from a different perspective? If Monte Cook posted here saying he wants submissions for his publishing house in less than a month and he won't be able to offer any feedback, would we trash him, too?

Worse, should members of the CBG get lambasted on other message boards every time they suggest that someone bring their campaign setting to the CBG, just because the CBG has a different approach and a different level of commitment to world building?

This is the first time I've ever been embarassed by the cliquishness of our community. If people at other sites are so exited about our community that they come here to ask us to create content for them, unless their selling something, I say let them come. How is the CBG going to grow if we mock anyone who sees our community as a resource for world builders everywhere?

I think you're reading too much into this, bro. I'm allowed to say that I think the whole concept is silly and inane if somebody else thinks it's awesome, aren't I? Am I supposed to filter out my thoughts because you don't like them?

That just creates the inverse effect you're trying to achieve. My thoughts are equally valid as his.

[Wensleydale]

*nods*

What ElDo says. The concept of just writing for the heck of it really doesn't mesh with my thoughts.

[beejazz]

Anyway, we *do* criticize other people's ideas on this site. Hell, look at the 12-14 pages of debate that lead up to our first meaningful anything on the new CBG system. Look at the "ew, natural 1" comments on my discussion thread. Look at the general disagreement on the philosophy thread. Contradiction is by no means derision.

[brainface]

NaNoWriMo - oh... god... that's sad! Sad I say!

It's like telling Da Vinci, "Okay, I'm going to give you a thousand canvases, no goals, and a month. Do whatever you want with them. Oh, and don't bother making them any good, the only thing that matters is how much paint you use."

It's a motivational thing. Apparently, there are people out there who don't spend inordinate amounts of time writing stuff for the hell of it, and they won't actually write stuff unless they have a deadline to keep them motivated. *shakes head* Crazy non-compulsive writers.

It's still bullocks.

It's practice man. Writing 50,000 words in a month isn't going to result in anything particularly good, but it's a hell of a lot of practice for when you need to make something good. You know, later, when writing the next great american novel/campaign setting. And when the hell did people need a reason to join a contest? People join contests to win.

[Elven Doritos]

Allow me to clarify into a unifying voice the nature of dissent on this thread, please:

We don't find it to be our taste. We think it's silly. We think it's a bum deal. But to each his own.

We were partially kidding. To my knowledge, we weren't riding anyone's ass, at most we were kidding around a bit. We do that here.

I apologize for anyone I've offended, including you, Meeps. I don't want to ruin the fun around here for you, just please try to take this kind of stuff a bit lighter.

And besides. There are a couple people who've mentioned that they'll be entering.

-ElDo