REASONABLE sized poll for

[aldersprig]

The original poll was a little too long, so I'm divvying this up into little polls for everyone's sanity.

Stories that WILL be written because I've already started their outlines:
Heroes
Catbois in Cages
Space Accountant Accidental Marriage

The other winners of the first Poll (At least 2 of these will be written):
Bless the Cat.(AF)
Legacy Cat.(AF)
King(maker) Cake, etc.(AF)

Poll #18819 First Poll of the Polling Polls

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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Stranded and Reiassan: Which of these stories should I continue?

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Stepping around
2 (20.0%)

Keeping a hold on things
2 (20.0%)

Kith and Kin
4 (40.0%)

Stranded in Winter
8 (80.0%)

Tangling isn’t just a walk in the park
3 (30.0%)

A tangled knot
2 (20.0%)

Love Meme: Autumn and Ink
5 (50.0%)

Fifty Years.
1 (10.0%)

A Wedding and Rin
3 (30.0%)

Rin and her Mother, and Knowing Where His Place Is
6 (60.0%)

Discovery (caves)
3 (30.0%)

Discovery (at sea)
3 (30.0%)

Carrying the Spirit
1 (10.0%)

Skill and Dreams
3 (30.0%)

The Enemy’s City
3 (30.0%)

Road Map To....
5 (50.0%)

With the Goats
3 (30.0%)

What (not on the giant list) should I continue for Tir na Cali and/Or Fae Apoc?

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The Links:

• Stepping Around
• Keeping a Hold on Things
• Kith and Kin
• Stranded in Winter
• Tangling isn't just a walk in the park
• A Tangled Knot
• Love Meme: Kai and Rozen, Autumn and Ink
• Fifty Years (Reissan, Rin pre-war)
• A Wedding and Rin, related snippets. (Reiassan, R&G)
•   Rin’s parents, and   Rin’s father, and …: Rin and her Mother, and Knowing Where His Place Is (parallel thread, both with related material) (Reiassan, R&G)
• Discovery (caves): starts with Part Fnarg, last update A Discovery in Depth (Reiassan, steam era)
• Discovery (at sea): starts with Discovery, last update 77 Words of Discovery (Reissan, steam era)
• Carrying the Spirit (Reiassan, before R&G) (TUn)
• Skill and Dreams (Reiassan)
• The Enemy’s City (Reiassan, R&G era)
• Road Map To…. (Reiassan, steam era) (TUn)
• With the Goats

Thanks again to kelkyag for the original compilation of links. 

Comments

[kelkyag]

Wargh I pruned these already you meanie. :-P
And nine isn't *terrible* for poll respondents ... okay yeah, it was an intimidating lot.
<stares>

The link for Tangling isn't just a walk in the park goes to "A Tangled Knot".

[aldersprig]

*grins cheerfully*

Fixing link, thanks.

[aldersprig]

I got eight in one day for this one! :-)

[kelkyag]

The non-overlapping ones could go vote on the other one, too!

[aldersprig]

They could!

[aldersprig]

But how do I convince them of that? Tag them individually?

[kelkyag]

I wish I knew! My attempts so far at getting people to prompt or vote or whathaveyou mostly only work on sauergeek, who was going to anyway and just hadn't noticed yet. Certainly the last nudge to prompt aimed at *someone actively asking for more* didn't work at all. Irk.

[aldersprig]

Mmm, I noticed <>< Sometimes that happens, though I don’t think they took offense. <.

[kelkyag]

I suppose taking offense isn't entirely implausible, but I'd still find it somewhat baffling. Yes, prompting isn't zero work, but it's a lot less work than writing. (If you're not a crazy archive diver, anyway, and even then ...)

[kelkyag]

Ha! One of the mini-polls finally got more votes than the giant poll of doom. I guess polls with lots of specific material behind them are inherently more work than more abstract polls. I wonder if a one-line description of each story would make it better or worse.

[aldersprig]

Did it? which one?

Well, I’ve got like 23? stories outlined now, so that’s that project pretty nearly done.

[kelkyag]

This one! <points up> With ten voters, to nine on the giant one. Thus commenting here. :)

Yeah, given the list I was wondering if there was room for anything from the new poll, or what the maybe-one-more poll might've been about. I'm guessing that will not be a thing.

[aldersprig]

Well, I MIIiiiiight continue this on and do like 30 all told?

We shall see!~

Also, I like a) variety and b) choices.

[kelkyag]

Good things. Also madness. Hopefully fun madness. :)

[aldersprig]

we shall see.
50,000 in a month is not toooo hard for me.

The question is, can I do 20+ ENDINGS in a month?

[kelkyag]

<starts to look guilty>
<remembers this plan was a total surprised to me when you announced it>
<squeees gleefully and guilt-free!>

I think the more likely "problem" is that some of them will run long, and so 50k words will not be enough for that many endings. Some of them I imagine could be wrapped up relatively quickly, but at least one is totally new, and a number are only barely begun or have a lot going on.