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Hypnovember 2023 Retrospective
5 months ago
Welp, we did it.
Three days ago, I successfully completed my project to write 50,000 words of hypno smut in a month. Today, I'd like to provide closure with a similarly unedited rambling diatribe about the lessons learned from this experience.
Lesson 1: Writing an Extended Story About 30 Different Kinks is a Terrible Idea
As the insightful reader might note: "yeah, dumbass, I could've told you that."
This is by far the largest takeaway, and I think it speaks for itself, so (for the first time ever), I'll be brief. If and when I write longer-form content in the future, it'll be centered around specific kinks and gender pairings. That way I won't accidentally introduce an important character in the only M/f story, or change the main character's outfit in the only anal story, and leave people who aren't interested in those things confused enough to quality for membership in Congress.
Lesson 2: Enjoyed Writing ≠ Enjoyed Reading
It's a common aphorism to "write what you love." Authors and readers alike will often say that if you didn't enjoy writing something, the audience will notice. Part of this project's goal was to put this theory to the test.
You see, when reporting a writing session on NaNoWriMo (the challenge behind all this), you have the option to report how much you enjoyed it on a scale of 1 to 5. This allows me to objectively(ish) measure how much I liked writing each story. We can then rank this against the fav/view ratio to find out whether these two values are correlated. (This is an imperfect measure because fav/view decreases slowly over time, but this drift should be gradual enough over the course of a month to make it okay). The results can be viewed here.
The upshot: R^2 = 0.0003. The less obscure upshot: how much I liked writing a story had no correlation whatsoever with how well it was received. Notable outliers are 9. Brainwash, which boasts a high ratio of 8% despite the fact that writing it was like dragging a rake across the asphalt of my mind, and 12. Toy, which had me smiling the whole time and proceeded to pull an absolute Hindenburg with a truly abysmal ratio of 3.6% (a full 1% lower than the next worst, which itself has been deflated by time).
So what's the takeaway from this? My reading is a positive one: even when writing feels painful, it's worth pushing through and finishing it anyway. Often, audiences will see something in it that you didn't (and will be spared the agonizing process of rewrites). Speaking of which...
Lesson 3: Drafts are Important
The Hypnovember stories differed from my usual content in several ways. One of which was the role of drafts. To give you a feeling for the difference, here's the process behind my two most recent "main" stories, Hypnotherapy and Office Hours:
Hypnotherapy:
- 07/09: First draft started
- 07/10: Induction completed (draft 1)
- 07/12: First part of trance completed (draft 1)
- 07/22: Induction edited, first part of trance completely rewritten
- 07/23: Second part of trance completed. Third part of trance drafted.
- 07/25: Third part of trance completely rewritten. Build to climax completed.
- 07/26: Main story completed. Good end and first bad end completed. Story submitted to beta readers.
- 07/30: Good end revised.
- 07/31: Second bad end added, based on beta reader feedback.
- 08/01: Final line editing.
- 08/02: Release!
Office Hours:
- 08/25: Prologue completed. Shelved due to †̴̺̉h̷̖͗ê̸̱̿ ̸͛ͅm̴̡̈å̶͚̔Ð̷̜̾ñ̴͓̋ê̸̟̚§̴̱͗§̶̰͝.
- 10/01: Intro (part one) completed.
- 10/17: Intro (part two) completed.
- 10/19: Induction drafted.
- 10/21: Trance and build to climax completed.
- 10/22: Induction completely rewritten. Ending completed.
- 10/24: First draft completed. Submitted to beta readers. (named for the first time!)
- 10/26: First round of line edits.
- 10/30: Final draft completed in collaboration with beta readers.
- 10/31: Release!
To compare, here's the process behind my two last (completed) Hypnovember stories:
14: Pocket Watch
- 11/24: First half drafted.
- 11/25: Second half drafted.
- 11/25: Release!
15: Mass Hypnosis
- 11/28: First draft completed. (originally as part of another story)
- 11/29: Separated into its own story on advice from a friend.
- 11/30: Release!
One can intuit that there might be a wider variance in quality for the latter stories.
The takeaway here goes hand in hand with the last lesson: since I'm not a good judge of my own writing quality, in the moment, it's extra important to put time and other people's feedback between my ideas and the story's release. Drafting, revising, and rewriting are not add-ons to the writing experience: they are the writing experience, and any attempt to circumvent them will lead to a noticeable drop in quality. (At least for me. Some other hypno authors' first versions lead me to believe they're simply built different.)
Lesson 4: I Write Too Damn Much
Would you believe this project was originally planned to have 30 stories? Or that, for the first half of it, I legitimately tried to keep pace with one story per day? You'd be forgiven if you didn't.
The core of the problem is something anyone who's read other hypno authors' writing could tell you: on average, I use more words to say the same thing. One could argue the merits of this, but what one couldn't argue is that it kept me from writing the same number of stories, and thus from getting the same amount of practice. Thus the takeaway for this section: read other people's writing and figure out what this weird "concise" word means.
Lesson 5: Despite It All, This Was Wonderful
One might initially believe this post has a thoroughly negative tone. The reason one might believe this is: this post has a thoroughly negative tone. The reason for that is that I try to view these sorts of projects as lessons, and lessons necessitate focusing on the things you're doing wrong. If we never stop to consider what we suck at, we might keep sucking at it forever. The purpose of this post (apart from closure, and giving y'all a rare glimpse into my non-hypno-horny mind) is to avoid being trapped in an endless loop of infinite suck. Those, as the moral goes, are best left for the stories.
One might then be led to believe that I didn't enjoy this project. On that, you would be misled.
To speak frankly, the reaction to this story has been astounding. I've had people (people I greatly respect) tell me that they're not only following the story, but discussing it -- which, as a sober batto, is probably my closest equivalent to mainlining methamphetamine. People have talked about the characters in my story as characters, which, for kink writing, is pretty fucking astounding. I've talked plot, character arcs, even the nature of consent and the relation between its depiction in fiction and reality with people who I've quickly learned are far smarter than me. Long story short -- it's been amazing. The discussions I've had and friendships I've found based on this story have been worth the writing a thousand times over. It's been incredible.
And that includes you. Yes, you, the person who's nearing the end of a rambling monologue about a series of furry hypno smut shorts on the internet. You are amazing. People don't tell you that enough. I'm so glad you joined me on this journey, and whatever you do after closing this tab, I wish you only the best of luck. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you <3
What's Next?
First, I'm going to be taking a short break. This break is as much physical as it is mental: my wrists started hurting around day 20 of the challenge (because of all the typing, you perverts) and I feel I owe them some R&R.
I'd like to continue this story sometime, but it likely won't be for at least a few months. Real life is quite turbulent this time of year, and my family continues to demand I stop writing furry hypnosis smut on the internet and sit around a table with them. To indulge them, and continue my other pursuits, I won't be able to pick this back up for a bit. But I'd like to :>
The next thing you'll read from me will probably be around Christmas. I say this as much for my benefit as yours; another lesson from the challenge is that I complete things more reliably if I tell the whole internet about it beforehand. It'll be more in line with my previous content: a one-short hypnovella of indeterminate length.
After that, in the new year, I plan to use this project as a jumping-off point. I really want to take these lessons and pump them into more longer-form hypno content. That means multiple chapters, recurring characters, some semblance of thematic resonance underlying all the hypno porn, the works. I've already got a few tenuous ideas for this, but, as always, you guys tend to have better ideas than I do, so I'm more than happy to hear suggestions ^w^
More tenuously, I'd also like to write some longer-form non-hypno content. Astute observers of my secret SFW account might notice it's been quiet for a while, and I plan to change that. I hope to release two pilot-type furry stories sometime in the next year (possibly in a variety of mediums), and if they're well-received, I might expand them into full-on miniseries. I don't expect this to be anywhere near as popular as this account's content (with no guilt-tripping intended -- porn is an art form like any other, and no one should be ashamed for enjoying it), but I'd like to try it anyway. If it happens, I'll likely share a link to it here.
If you reached the end of this manifesto about writing hypno porn on the internet, you deserve a treat. Take this small trove of character studies I wrote in preparation for Enthralled. Their quality likely matches up with the other Hypnovember stories -- that is, varying -- but i hope you find something to enjoy anyways ^^
Three days ago, I successfully completed my project to write 50,000 words of hypno smut in a month. Today, I'd like to provide closure with a similarly unedited rambling diatribe about the lessons learned from this experience.
Lesson 1: Writing an Extended Story About 30 Different Kinks is a Terrible Idea
As the insightful reader might note: "yeah, dumbass, I could've told you that."
This is by far the largest takeaway, and I think it speaks for itself, so (for the first time ever), I'll be brief. If and when I write longer-form content in the future, it'll be centered around specific kinks and gender pairings. That way I won't accidentally introduce an important character in the only M/f story, or change the main character's outfit in the only anal story, and leave people who aren't interested in those things confused enough to quality for membership in Congress.
Lesson 2: Enjoyed Writing ≠ Enjoyed Reading
It's a common aphorism to "write what you love." Authors and readers alike will often say that if you didn't enjoy writing something, the audience will notice. Part of this project's goal was to put this theory to the test.
You see, when reporting a writing session on NaNoWriMo (the challenge behind all this), you have the option to report how much you enjoyed it on a scale of 1 to 5. This allows me to objectively(ish) measure how much I liked writing each story. We can then rank this against the fav/view ratio to find out whether these two values are correlated. (This is an imperfect measure because fav/view decreases slowly over time, but this drift should be gradual enough over the course of a month to make it okay). The results can be viewed here.
The upshot: R^2 = 0.0003. The less obscure upshot: how much I liked writing a story had no correlation whatsoever with how well it was received. Notable outliers are 9. Brainwash, which boasts a high ratio of 8% despite the fact that writing it was like dragging a rake across the asphalt of my mind, and 12. Toy, which had me smiling the whole time and proceeded to pull an absolute Hindenburg with a truly abysmal ratio of 3.6% (a full 1% lower than the next worst, which itself has been deflated by time).
So what's the takeaway from this? My reading is a positive one: even when writing feels painful, it's worth pushing through and finishing it anyway. Often, audiences will see something in it that you didn't (and will be spared the agonizing process of rewrites). Speaking of which...
Lesson 3: Drafts are Important
The Hypnovember stories differed from my usual content in several ways. One of which was the role of drafts. To give you a feeling for the difference, here's the process behind my two most recent "main" stories, Hypnotherapy and Office Hours:
Hypnotherapy:
- 07/09: First draft started
- 07/10: Induction completed (draft 1)
- 07/12: First part of trance completed (draft 1)
- 07/22: Induction edited, first part of trance completely rewritten
- 07/23: Second part of trance completed. Third part of trance drafted.
- 07/25: Third part of trance completely rewritten. Build to climax completed.
- 07/26: Main story completed. Good end and first bad end completed. Story submitted to beta readers.
- 07/30: Good end revised.
- 07/31: Second bad end added, based on beta reader feedback.
- 08/01: Final line editing.
- 08/02: Release!
Office Hours:
- 08/25: Prologue completed. Shelved due to †̴̺̉h̷̖͗ê̸̱̿ ̸͛ͅm̴̡̈å̶͚̔Ð̷̜̾ñ̴͓̋ê̸̟̚§̴̱͗§̶̰͝.
- 10/01: Intro (part one) completed.
- 10/17: Intro (part two) completed.
- 10/19: Induction drafted.
- 10/21: Trance and build to climax completed.
- 10/22: Induction completely rewritten. Ending completed.
- 10/24: First draft completed. Submitted to beta readers. (named for the first time!)
- 10/26: First round of line edits.
- 10/30: Final draft completed in collaboration with beta readers.
- 10/31: Release!
To compare, here's the process behind my two last (completed) Hypnovember stories:
14: Pocket Watch
- 11/24: First half drafted.
- 11/25: Second half drafted.
- 11/25: Release!
15: Mass Hypnosis
- 11/28: First draft completed. (originally as part of another story)
- 11/29: Separated into its own story on advice from a friend.
- 11/30: Release!
One can intuit that there might be a wider variance in quality for the latter stories.
The takeaway here goes hand in hand with the last lesson: since I'm not a good judge of my own writing quality, in the moment, it's extra important to put time and other people's feedback between my ideas and the story's release. Drafting, revising, and rewriting are not add-ons to the writing experience: they are the writing experience, and any attempt to circumvent them will lead to a noticeable drop in quality. (At least for me. Some other hypno authors' first versions lead me to believe they're simply built different.)
Lesson 4: I Write Too Damn Much
Would you believe this project was originally planned to have 30 stories? Or that, for the first half of it, I legitimately tried to keep pace with one story per day? You'd be forgiven if you didn't.
The core of the problem is something anyone who's read other hypno authors' writing could tell you: on average, I use more words to say the same thing. One could argue the merits of this, but what one couldn't argue is that it kept me from writing the same number of stories, and thus from getting the same amount of practice. Thus the takeaway for this section: read other people's writing and figure out what this weird "concise" word means.
Lesson 5: Despite It All, This Was Wonderful
One might initially believe this post has a thoroughly negative tone. The reason one might believe this is: this post has a thoroughly negative tone. The reason for that is that I try to view these sorts of projects as lessons, and lessons necessitate focusing on the things you're doing wrong. If we never stop to consider what we suck at, we might keep sucking at it forever. The purpose of this post (apart from closure, and giving y'all a rare glimpse into my non-hypno-horny mind) is to avoid being trapped in an endless loop of infinite suck. Those, as the moral goes, are best left for the stories.
One might then be led to believe that I didn't enjoy this project. On that, you would be misled.
To speak frankly, the reaction to this story has been astounding. I've had people (people I greatly respect) tell me that they're not only following the story, but discussing it -- which, as a sober batto, is probably my closest equivalent to mainlining methamphetamine. People have talked about the characters in my story as characters, which, for kink writing, is pretty fucking astounding. I've talked plot, character arcs, even the nature of consent and the relation between its depiction in fiction and reality with people who I've quickly learned are far smarter than me. Long story short -- it's been amazing. The discussions I've had and friendships I've found based on this story have been worth the writing a thousand times over. It's been incredible.
And that includes you. Yes, you, the person who's nearing the end of a rambling monologue about a series of furry hypno smut shorts on the internet. You are amazing. People don't tell you that enough. I'm so glad you joined me on this journey, and whatever you do after closing this tab, I wish you only the best of luck. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you <3
What's Next?
First, I'm going to be taking a short break. This break is as much physical as it is mental: my wrists started hurting around day 20 of the challenge (because of all the typing, you perverts) and I feel I owe them some R&R.
I'd like to continue this story sometime, but it likely won't be for at least a few months. Real life is quite turbulent this time of year, and my family continues to demand I stop writing furry hypnosis smut on the internet and sit around a table with them. To indulge them, and continue my other pursuits, I won't be able to pick this back up for a bit. But I'd like to :>
The next thing you'll read from me will probably be around Christmas. I say this as much for my benefit as yours; another lesson from the challenge is that I complete things more reliably if I tell the whole internet about it beforehand. It'll be more in line with my previous content: a one-short hypnovella of indeterminate length.
After that, in the new year, I plan to use this project as a jumping-off point. I really want to take these lessons and pump them into more longer-form hypno content. That means multiple chapters, recurring characters, some semblance of thematic resonance underlying all the hypno porn, the works. I've already got a few tenuous ideas for this, but, as always, you guys tend to have better ideas than I do, so I'm more than happy to hear suggestions ^w^
More tenuously, I'd also like to write some longer-form non-hypno content. Astute observers of my secret SFW account might notice it's been quiet for a while, and I plan to change that. I hope to release two pilot-type furry stories sometime in the next year (possibly in a variety of mediums), and if they're well-received, I might expand them into full-on miniseries. I don't expect this to be anywhere near as popular as this account's content (with no guilt-tripping intended -- porn is an art form like any other, and no one should be ashamed for enjoying it), but I'd like to try it anyway. If it happens, I'll likely share a link to it here.
If you reached the end of this manifesto about writing hypno porn on the internet, you deserve a treat. Take this small trove of character studies I wrote in preparation for Enthralled. Their quality likely matches up with the other Hypnovember stories -- that is, varying -- but i hope you find something to enjoy anyways ^^
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