The Writers' Block

[NordicLand84]

i meant radioactive containers

#584 covered the issue of "what do we do with radioactive waste?" You'd need to make your issue different from that.

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[Pogaria]

#584 covered the issue of "what do we do with radioactive waste?" You'd need to make your issue different from that.

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Creative thinking will help you more than screaming. For example, you could write an issue where a nation that decided to build deep disposal sites for nuclear waste realizes that they were improperly constructed. Or maybe the disposal sites are great, and other nations are asking if they can send their nuclear waste there. Follow-up issues always have a lot of potential.

Also, I think the issue in question was #542.

[Dictator Anna 10]

I've had an idea for an issue for a bit about someone having an alleged "ghost encounter" and pressing the leader to address it. I have a few ideas for how to get it going, but I suppose that as a start I'm wanting to make sure that an issue regarding ghosts wouldn't be too unrealistic?

[NordicLand84]

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Creative thinking will help you more than screaming. For example, you could write an issue where a nation that decided to build deep disposal sites for nuclear waste realizes that they were improperly constructed. Or maybe the disposal sites are great, and other nations are asking if they can send their nuclear waste there. Follow-up issues always have a lot of potential.

Also, I think the issue in question was #542.

I GOT AN IDEA
Your Country Uses one of its abandoned islands to dispose waste, but other people found better places
if this is taken, im gonna help on the ghost issue

[Sacara]

I've had an idea for an issue for a bit about someone having an alleged "ghost encounter" and pressing the leader to address it. I have a few ideas for how to get it going, but I suppose that as a start I'm wanting to make sure that an issue regarding ghosts wouldn't be too unrealistic?

I don't think it would be unrealistic, as long as you made sure not to make the assertion they are real in the description. Keep in mind I recently posted on this subject, "Who Ya Gonna Call?", last week. You are more than free draft one about this topic, though.

[The Atlae Isles]

Are there any issues (I couldn't find any but I might not have searched hard enough) about designer drugs being manufactured after scouring scientific publications? Here's an article in Nature that inspired this issue idea: https://www.nature.com/articles/469007a

[Drew Durrnil]

Are there any issues about @@LEADER@@ divorcing?

[NordicLand84]

Are there any issues about @@LEADER@@ divorcing?

dunno- DREW DURNIL!!!?!!?!?1?

[Bears Armed]

Are there any issues about @@LEADER@@ divorcing?

I don't think that any would be allowed, because that would be too great an infringement on 'player autonomy'.[/not-an-Editor]

[Outer Sparta]

Are there any issues about @@LEADER@@ divorcing?

I don't think that any would be allowed, because that would be too great an infringement on 'player autonomy'.[/not-an-Editor]

Even so, it would be a weird angle and be better off roleplayed.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Good news, everybody!

The Planet Express team has been hired to...

Wait, wrong notes.

A Upper House reinstatement issue has been published, so that's one fewer validity reversal needed. Took y'all long enough.

[Trotterdam]

The winners: Untecna and Daarwyrth. I've already seen the latter answer the issue, no-one else so far.

EDIT: Or rather, a different attempt by Daarwyrth, but with one effect line lifted off Untecna.

[Kors]

Is there any issues about being too primitive?

[Jutsa]

I want to say so, but I can't recall where I've seen it... if it was even an issue and not a draft.

If we end up with an issue where everyone including the narrator talks like caveman (save for maybe some third speaker) then me be much impress.

Edit: If anyone else wants to answer the above question, maybe you could also answer one for me:
do we have an issue about firing really good generals who don't want to listen to you? Something along the lines of MacArthur.
ed: thinking a name like "mcGunther" could even work :v

[Bears Armed]

I've got an idea that would follow up on one particular choice from an existing issue, but before going ahead with drafting this I am asking whether the editors would be willing to consider the possibility or would consider this too "niche" to be worthwhile.

This would be a follow-up to issue 43, option 3, which lets convicts out of jail to work for Papa Pallocci's Pizza Pagoda: A businessman widely known suspected to have mob connections but not yet actually convicted of any crimes -- perhaps re-use 'Morbidy Obese Tony, from issue #508 ('Ex-cons Robbed of Future'), option 3, as he seems appropriate to the 'food' theme -- announces plans to set up a rival pizza business and apply for convicts as workers (presumably, one of your more cynical advisors suggests, using jailed members of his own existing organization...) on the same basis...
Can you discriminate against him in this, although he hasn't yet been convicted of anything and so officially is just an innocent importer of (spices? olive oil?)?
Option 1 = yes, option 2 = no (or vice versa?), option 3 is make a much stronger effort to convict him of his crimes (even if that has to involve taking a few short-cuts through the legal process?).
I admit that this is a case where I started with the idea of the title, and then came up with ideas to fit that: It would be 'A Pizza The Action'.

[The Glorious Hypetrain]

Is there any way to recover a previously submitted issue? I submitted an entry for the contest last month, didn't save my draft anywhere (my bad), and want to post it to the forum to get feedback and gauge interest now that it's over. Hoping to not have to re-write too much, but totally understand otherwise!

[Pogaria]

Is there any way to recover a previously submitted issue? I submitted an entry for the contest last month, didn't save my draft anywhere (my bad), and want to post it to the forum to get feedback and gauge interest now that it's over. Hoping to not have to re-write too much, but totally understand otherwise!

Check your telegrams.

[The Glorious Hypetrain]

Is there any way to recover a previously submitted issue? I submitted an entry for the contest last month, didn't save my draft anywhere (my bad), and want to post it to the forum to get feedback and gauge interest now that it's over. Hoping to not have to re-write too much, but totally understand otherwise!

Check your telegrams.

Thank you Pogaria!!

[Kors]

I want to say so, but I can't recall where I've seen it... if it was even an issue and not a draft.

If we end up with an issue where everyone including the narrator talks like caveman (save for maybe some third speaker) then me be much impress.

Edit: If anyone else wants to answer the above question, maybe you could also answer one for me:
do we have an issue about firing really good generals who don't want to listen to you? Something along the lines of MacArthur.
ed: thinking a name like "mcGunther" could even work :v

I will get to work right away.

[Debussy]

How touchy is suicide and depression in issues that are suppose to carry some form of humor? I guess I'm asking how do I write about those topics, or are those types of issues acceptable?

The idea I had was that a popular sad song leads to a sharp increase in depression and suicides and the nation has to address what to do about it.

[Verdant Haven]

How touchy is suicide and depression in issues that are suppose to carry some form of humor? I guess I'm asking how do I write about those topics, or are those types of issues acceptable?

The idea I had was that a popular sad song leads to a sharp increase in depression and suicides and the nation has to address what to do about it.

It is an "adult" topic generally, but we do have a number of issues that touch on the question of suicide and depression. Issue 62 is directly about government response to rising depression-related suicides, and issue 496 is actually about suicide in the music world, with accusations about certain songs being "pro-suicide." There are also issues addressing suicide as it pertains to a number of other influences or factors.

If handled tactfully and with care, both depression and suicide are topics that can be written about within the NS Issues world. Finding a new or unique angle from which to approach the topic will require some research, but certainly can be done.

[Naya Insaafistan]

the issue text reads, "In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of The @@TYPE@@ today ruled that an obscure clause of the Constitution invalidates a government bill reaffirming the ban on same-sex marriage. Two groups have gathered in @@CAPITAL@@, one to protest the decision, the other to applaud it."

so, i'd like to ask, reaffirming what ban? i'm pretty sure i didn't have the heterosexuality policy when i received the issue, and the fact that heterosexuality did not show up as a cancelled policy upon option 2 being selected and the marriage equality policy being instituted suggests that i'm right in thinking i didn't have the heterosexuality policy when i received the issue. so there was no ban on same-sex marriage to be reaffirmed. the issue should either be re-written or made available only to nations with the heterosexuality policy.

furthermore, i do not see why selecting option 2 should result in the marriage equality policy being instituted. correct me if my understanding is lacking but i understand "same-sex marriage is banned" to mean that same-sex couples can face jail-time or other punishments when the ban is enforced. if the ban is lifted, same-sex couples no longer have to fear these punishments, but that does not mean that same-sex marriage is legally recognised or that there are any laws referring to "individuals of the same-sex married to one another" or that laws referring to "married couples" are understood to refer not only to opposite-sex couples but to same-sex couples as well. instituting marriage equality should cancel heterosexuality, and instituting heterosexuality should cancel marriage equality, but cancelling heterosexuality should not institute marriage equality, and cancelling marriage equality should not institute heterosexuality.

in actuality, there are 4 possible situations:

same-sex marriage is illegal/banned
there are no specific laws regarding same-sex marriage
there are different laws for same-sex and opposite-sex couples
the exact same laws apply to same-sex and opposite-sex couples

the first of these should be covered by the heterosexuality policy, the fourth should be covered by the marriage equality policy, the third, although it in effect is just legal recognition of same-sex marriage, may also be covered by the marriage equality policy in-game as i'm pretty sure in-name-only marriage equality exists irl as well, and the second should mean neither policy is in effect.

[Tinhampton]

In light of what VH said in the Their Assured Destruction draft thread...

As a general FYI, you don't need to suggest policy or stat results. Focus on writing a clear issue, so that the policy changes you think it should cause are obvious. If you do that, they'll be added backstage during editing, should the issue make it to the game.

perhaps the FAQ/HTWAI sticky could be updated to remind people that they should not be suggesting statistical effects or flag changes in their issue drafts in the first place. (My apologies if this is the wrong place for this.)

[Luna Amore]

In light of what VH said in the Their Assured Destruction draft thread...

As a general FYI, you don't need to suggest policy or stat results. Focus on writing a clear issue, so that the policy changes you think it should cause are obvious. If you do that, they'll be added backstage during editing, should the issue make it to the game.

perhaps the FAQ/HTWAI sticky could be updated to remind people that they should not be suggesting statistical effects or flag changes in their issue drafts in the first place. (My apologies if this is the wrong place for this.)

It doesn't say anything currently about suggesting stats so I'm not sure that we really need to remind people not to do something that isn't in the How To Guide. The only thing it does still have is to think about the validity which is still an option on the gameside submission page.

[SherpDaWerp]

It doesn't say anything currently about suggesting stats so I'm not sure that we really need to remind people not to do something that isn't in the How To Guide. The only thing it does still have is to think about the validity which is still an option on the gameside submission page.

I gather this would have to be Admin making the change, else it would already have happened - but I'd like to note that the gameside "Advanced Issue Submission Guidelines" here still lists [stats] as a field to submit, which is probably where the majority of people get that information.