Executionus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:24 am I'm sad that we don't have any entrants to this yet, aside from the story that inspired the contest (which hasn't had a new part since then). Honestly the whole board has been pretty dead the last week or so. We need to lure new writers. If I have to drive a creepy white van and hand out candy in order to lure folks here, I WILL do it. It wouldn't even be the first time in my life that I've done that (Totally not a joke. My life is weird).
I was thinking the other day about several old classics and deciding if I wanted to write any spinoffs for any of them myself, even though I obviously can't win my own contest. It occurred to me that several of my favorite stories from the past have largely been forgotten, so I'm gonna locate a couple that I can find and post them in the archives.
EDIT: So in my efforts of browsing the old archive of the dreambook site I ran into one of my ancient stories under a throwaway name, because I had a couple of those before I went with the Executionus name full-time. This story had enough newbie cringe to ensure that I kept it locked away forgotten forever. Let's just say that it was a nice humbling experience to be reminded how rookie I was early on.
I've been slightly disappointed with how dead the board has been this week, I agree we definitely need more traffic/writers/readers.
As for the spinoff contest I have a couple really good classics id like to further elaborate on, just been a busy week, might I maybe suggest extending this contest out a bit? Maybe even an extra month, the spinoff idea is just too good and myself along with maybe others will have to work a bit harder to make sure it comes off anywhere near what some of the classics did, its just a little bit harder to add/alternate timeline/etc off of someone elses story rather than just all the shit off the top of your head. I think a contest if this caliber could stand for an extension, I really would love to see some incredible stories come out of this and would hate to see it end to soon/before many entries/before I have time to put out my own

As for the early works..early works are always VERY humbling, my first story was some Halloween party contest entry a few years ago, reading it compared to like Lesson in Karma or any of my other works and its just cringe lol.
As for how we could get more traffic..was that just being hopeful for more or like brainstorming for ideas? I'm sure there's a few places scoured across the internet full of enf content/literature. Maybe some of those people would enjoy it here, but the only thing shitty, is I feel like anyone with this kink, has likely already found us, or they have enfish kink and we are a bit much for that crowd, id love to see further discussion on the board/if there's anything we could do to improve/expand upon it.
This contest really is too good and if we see low entries I'd like to see it attempted again. Im eagerly look forward to whatever classics you end up spinning off,
I'll be an entrant eventually. If I get any spare time I'll try to put some work in, also..idk if you still plan on doing anything with Candace, but your take on it would still be welcomed. I'd go as far to say I'd be excited to see what popped into your head to create with her.
Slow week..we've had slow months..like really slow months, we will prevail, shitty timing though, this contest deserves a million entries.