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ocalhoun


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Dec
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2016

Annual Free-For-All Story Idea Voting! Vote Now! · 4:12am Dec 16th, 2016

One of the perks I offer my Patreon supporters is that they get to vote on which story idea I'll write next.

Well, I've decided to start a tradition: Once a year, I'll let anyone vote on which story I'm doing next, regardless of whether they support me on Patreon or not. I have a list of all my potential story ideas, and just once per year, all of you get to vote on which three of those I'll write next.
Yes, you read that right. I'll be writing the top three stories in this poll, all before the end of April.
(Well, I at least promise to start all three by then. If you guys pick a really long story, it could take longer than that to finish.)

Vote Here! Voting ends on Jan 1st.
More detailed instructions and explanations are on the voting page.
Just three things I want to point out here:
- Please vote only once. That's mostly on the honor system; be fair to the other people voting. (Though I will throw out any results that look like obvious cheating.)
- You'll need to log in to Google in order to cast your vote, hopefully that's not a burden. (Don't worry; voting is anonymous, and the form isn't storing names or email addresses.)
- Some ideas are NSFW (All links/pictures are SFW); the ones that are NSFW will be marked with a [NSFW] before the description.

For those of you who already support me on Patreon: Don't worry, your story voting (for both December and January) will go on as usual. This poll is in addition to that. (And you're still free to participate in this one as well!) In case you're thinking of sitting it out, since you're already accustomed to voting, you should know that there are 20 brand-new ideas on there that you haven't seen before!

For those of you who don't support me on Patreon: That's fine! I love all my fans, which is why I'm doing this -- this one's for you in particular. If you'd like to help keep me writing, or if you'd like to have more control over what I write ... or even if you'd just like to get to 'proofread' my stories a few days early, please consider signing up. I'd be glad to have you!

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Comments ( 14 )

those results as they currently sit are approximately what i expected from reading descriptions. the only baffling thing was the rainbow dash human butt one being so low. woulda thought that would sit at like 26%

4341781
Heh. What I find interesting are the few that have an overwhelming majority of people voting '5'.

4341812 interesting insight into fimfic. i gotta wonder if the people who upvoted the clop ideas tend to read Ocal's stories as well as Secret's or just Secret's

EDIT: logic failure fixed

4341830
Well, almost every story has a lot of 0's.
I assume that's from non-cloppers rating the clop stories 0 and from cloppers rating the non-clop stories 0.
:twilightsmile: It's interesting to see what's more popular.
:unsuresweetie: Although, at the moment, clop is winning my a healthy margin ... the top 5 picks are all clop.
:rainbowlaugh: Bunch of perverts, I tell ya!

Mister. :trixieshiftright: How can you expect anyone to decide for three stories among so many great ideas.....
I did for three, but it was a hard decision and man, what did I have to leave behind..... :raritydespair:
By the way, aren't you worried someone takes those ideas and writes them himself if you put them out so open into the public? Or do you not care because you get so many ideas anyway?

You're having more story ideas than me right now..... Over which time period did you get those?

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You know, thinking about it, if you do this again, you should probably make two votings, one only for clop, the other for SFW stories.
As much as I like me some Foalcon here and there (I might or might not have voted for "Sex Ed: Pony Style" :trixieshiftright:), it would still be pretty problematic if SFW stories get drowned out by clop. The latter stories really have more substance than the quick "Fap and Forget" material.

4343119
I got these ideas over the course of my whole writing career. ^.^
And don't worry: I think I'll make sure at least one clop and at least one SFW story win ... even if that means I have to write 4 stories instead of 3.

TLDR but count me for non-clop.

4344394

I got these ideas over the course of my whole writing career. ^.^

So, since at least four and a half years..... Guess that gives me, compared to you, a quite good standing, after all, with the 64 fic ideas I got in the last year and two months since I started noting them.

4344703
Good, good. The non-clop voters could use some help.

4344717
Heh, to be fair, though, I've been branching out into writing novels, so these are only my pony ideas... the ideas I think would work best when done with ponies.

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And about nothing else I was talking. :raritywink: I have no interest in non-pony literature, be it reading or writing it.

4345308
Ah, but it's more lucrative.

Its sad to see that The Dictator has such a low ranking right now, already 24 "Hate It!".
"Sombra is /The Dictator/, as in the movie of the same name."
Just reading the idea alone had me laughing my ass off. :rainbowlaugh:

4346596
I like that idea a lot too...
Fortunately, I don't need people to vote on it in order to write it. :twilightsmile: I'll probably get around to it eventually.

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