NaNo filter poll that would not work in previous entry for some reason I'm too lazy to figure out

[melannen]

Poll #8426

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58

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Let me see?

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If I'm already on your nano/wips filter, take me off.
1 (1.7%)

If I'm not already on your nano/wips filter, put me on
40 (69.0%)

I honestly don't care
9 (15.5%)

Seriously, these "filter me" polls set off my social anxiety like nobody's business, you decide
10 (17.2%)

I unhonestly don't care, stop attention-whoring, why does everybody pretend nano makes them special
1 (1.7%)

You know you're going to lose interest by week two anyway, why do you still bother?
3 (5.2%)

I skim your posts anyway, doesn't really matter.
3 (5.2%)

Ooh, a ticky!
38 (65.5%)

Comments

[busaikko]

Every year I get so annoyed by Nanowrimo posts on my flist, I was prepared to be brutal here, but then I looked at your previous post? Um. Your project sounds awesome, something I'm totally fascinated by! Please don't filter me off? *bakes you cookies*

[melannen]

Oh damn, I read the first half of your comment and thought somebody had actually been brave enough to pick option 5! :P But you can be on if you want.

[zellieh]

I also signed up for NaNo, and I love the idea of your worldbuilding post.

Last year, I used Patricia C Wrede's model (at SFWA) for a rough outline of Things I Need To Think About, but it wasn't perfect. There were gaps. It might have been easier to use if I'd been worldbuilding form scratch, but I was writing a HP fanfic, so it took a lot of adapting to make it work with JKR's world.

But, yes -- worldbuilding! I love it, bring it on!

[melannen]

I've used Patricia Wrede's question before, but, well, they're questions! I have trouble with answers, I can come up with my own questions. :P

[zellieh]

Yes, exactly! It worked fairly well for my HP epic, because that's mostly Earth, plus the wizarding world, but I did think, if I was using it for original fic, I'd be stuffed.

I'm not a scientist, but I know enough about science to know that there's all kinds of limits and reasons why, with climate and mountains and year-length, and I can't just decide to give my planet 2 suns or 3 moons "because it looks pretty," and not make allowances for volcanism, tides, climate, changes to light levels affecting plants and animals, etc.

[melannen]

OH GOD MOONS. Yeah, there's a reason I've decided to limit this particular project to "earth-like" planets. There will be a bit where I explain why you shouldn't mess much with moons and suns if you want earth-like, and then I shall move on. :P

Climate and mountains I think I mostly can do, though.

[zellieh]

Hah, yes! And year-length or day-length relate to planetary spin and distance form the sun, which affects...well, everything, so be careful when you play with calendars! They're more dangerous than they look. ::laughs::

Oh, and eclipses! Our beautiful solar eclipses? Pure coincidence because of the size of the moon and the distance from the sun. Not issued as standard with every solar system.

My goodness, but this project could just expand forever if you let it. ::backs away slowly::

Climate and mountains -- I'm looking forward to it already. ::g::

[melannen]

There seems to actually be both more and less flexibility with day and year length than you might think. Hopefully I will get to that!

The moon thing is just... complicated, though. And yeah, the point of the outline is that maybe I can write the damn thing and then be able to call it done.

[zellieh]

Yes, as long as you stick to "Earth-like", you have quite a bit of flexibility, but I have read some old sci-fi stuff where lots of things were changed (days, years, moons, type of sun) and yet the world stayed almost exactly like Earth, and looking back on it, well. ::eyeroll::

I hope it goes well! ::hugs::

[synecdochic]

I would like to read, but as always, you decide :)

[melannen]

Okay, I am confused! Did you mean to click the first option and ask to not read? Because I am happy to go by what you clicked, but that doesn't seem to match this comment.

[synecdochic]

DISREGARD THAT I CHUG COCKS i would like to read your posts but am confused by this new poll technology

[melannen]

THAT'S OKAY I am confused by it too! as you can tell by the title of this post!

[seekingferret]

I'm doing NaNo as ronarfel. This year it seems that I'm writing Nabokov fanfiction, which um... why the hell did I decide that was a good idea?

[melannen]

I always ask that question about my NaNo decisions around this time. Hey, it's not too late to change!

[calvinahobbes]

Whoa, I clicked the ticky in the other post, and it transported me up my rlist to this post! Freaky! O.o

Your outline is v. cool! Put me on your filter! But um, I might not read absolutely all of it, fair warning ;o)

[melannen]

Isn't it freaky? I've never had an excuse to do that with a poll before, but it's an awesome power!