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What should the club name be?

Ordenes Trollmenn (The Wizards of Words)

3 (50%)

Writers of Wintreath

0 (0%)

Berättelse Skapare (Story Creators)

1 (16.7%)

Icy Writers

2 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 6

Voting closed: October 29, 2022, 07:22:03 PM

So I've been wanting to create a type of writing club for a while to also help kick off getting more groups in Wintreath, and have finally come up with some ideas in the fashion of making it a club where we can share works or ideas and bounce support of of each other.  What are some characters you've wanted to introduce into your story but are having a hard time making them feel authentic?  What are some places you want your characters to visit, but are having trouble making feel real? Are you trying to flesh out your literary worlds but are lacking ideas on some of the more grounded lore such as religion, backstory, and other factors?

This would be a club of like-minded writers who love the craft or who may want to jump into it for the first time, and may from time to time need help as many of us do when we hit that frustrating writer's block.

Likewise, this would be a club where we actively take part in events such as National Novel Writing Month to give ourselves that push to get past that block...using each other as pillars of support when we struggle (because we all will at points) and being a positive force for each other while also offering constructive critique when warranted.

As a club requires at least 5 citizens that sign the petition to be recognized officially, I'd like to open this up to folks who may be interested in such an idea.  From there, we can move this to the Landsraad and make it official!

So for now, please feel free to share your interest if this sounds like something you'd want to be a part of!  And this club will accept new aspiring writers who are curious of the craft as well...anyone is welcome!

Current Club name ideas:
*Ordenes Trollmenn (The Wizards of Words in Norwegian)
*Writers of Wintreath
*Berättelse Skapare (Story Creators in Swedish)
*Icy Writers

Writing is something I definitely want to do more, so I’m in!

I'm all for it! Would love to see what others are writing and I do need a push to finish writing some stories for this game I'm working on haha

Saw writing club, I'm in

I'm all for it! Would love to see what others are writing and I do need a push to finish writing some stories for this game I'm working on haha

If you want help, I am more than happy to give you ideas

Obviously I’ll join!

I would love to have different games that we could do, like for example, writing a short story based on randomly generated details

I’m quite interested.

Also NaNoWriMo is coming up soon

Awesome, and that's 5 (well 6 including me)!

And now we get to come up with some name ideas.

Some I had in mind are:
Wintreath Word Warriors
Writers of Wintreath

I'd love to hear other suggestions for a name, and then we can open it up to a vote before moving to make things official.

And natually people can still express interest in joining, both citizens and non. 

Edit: Going with the vibe of Nordic names like TGN chose with his Swedish entry, I have to replace one of my suggestions  Instead of Wintreath Word Warriors, I'm going to instead suggest the name Ordenes Trollmenn which translates to The Wizards of Words in Norwegian.

I’m quite interested.

Also NaNoWriMo is coming up soon

Yep! And one of our first orders of business after the naming and charter can be bouncing off ideas for it this year if any of us are taking part...which I definitely will be.

Name idea: Berättelse Skapare

Literally just Swedish for Story Creators

Name Idea: Icy Writers

Just a thought, and also I'll join

Excellent name suggestions so far!

And while others submit their own name suggestions, I do have a question for you all as I write up the charter draft:

Since this is a support group type of club, how would you prefer the leadership aspect?:

A) Elections every 6 months (since 3 for this kind of group will definitely not be enough for bigger projects) and they appoint a VP type of role that they can delegate duties to and would act as the club head in the current head's absence.

B) Elections for the first head of the club, and they maintain that role until they leave or are challenged.  They'd appoint a VP role that they can delegate duties to and would be the acting head upon the club head's absence.  At any point if a member feels the club head is not performing their duties, they can challenge the role in which elections between the two would immediately take place...and if a majority of the club members vote for the challenger, the challenger would become the new club head.

or C) Something else (describe your idea).

I'd be interested in joining 

I'm in favor of option B! I feel that it would be better for this kind of club right now.