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Christmas Event and News About the Recent Outage

by WotS Admin Team on 12/22/2023 13:10  

This year's Christmas challenge is based on the Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve. The time should be Christmas eve of whatever year works best for the story, but the ghost story teller can be anyone, or even characters taking turns. You can make up a completely original ghost story, have it be a retelling of something the characters went through (an original adventure of your creation, or an interesting new look at something from canon), or can be one of the characters telling one of your favorite ghost stories. Because of the site outage, this challenge is going to be open until February 1st.


Speaking of the outage, we'll take a moment to explain what happened. West of the Storm is not hosted on a private service. We pay for service space through a public commercial host, and that hosting service was hit with a major DDOS attack right afteer Thanksgiving, taking down all of their hosted sites. So it wasn't an attack against West of the Storm itself.

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Halloween Event

by WotS Admin Team on 09/09/2023 18:55  

Next month is the start of Spooky Season. The Buffyverse is full of monsters and unusual things that go bump in the night. On October 31st, join us in posting spooky stories, one shots welcome. Starting this year, Spooky drawings and comics are also welcome.


We'll also be hosting writing parties every weekend in October to feed the muses and help get the creative juices flowing.

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Member Numbers. Part 2

by WotS Admin Team on 04/29/2023 22:45  

While we've been attempting to only delete spam accounts, we did have an accident recently and deleted a member account. A new member joined at roughly the same time as several "people" who feel that our authors and readership have a serious tiny penis problem and got caught up in the culling.


We're trying to be much more careful going forward, but if your account does end up deleted despite you having no negative thoughts about our penis size, you should be able to easily make a new account.


We're very sorry for any inconvenience.

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Member Numbers

by WotS Admin Team on 04/15/2023 11:16  

For the sake of transparancy, we're just letting you all know about something odd you may have noticed about fluctuating member numbers. We've been getting a lot of spam accounts lately (with bios full of sales pitches and links to sketchy sites), and we've just been removing them. No actual writers or readers have been removed.


And while we're speaking of site members, this site was specifically designed so only those who are posting stories or art have to have an actual account (though anyone who isn't a spammer/bot is welcome to make one). So if you've been hesitant to review because you don't want to sign up to yet another site, that's not something to worry about. You can review without an account.

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April Showers Bring May Flowers!

by Fancyflautist on 04/05/2023 16:47  

This month's one-shot challenge is about storms (real or metaphorical) and all the things that can come from them. Sometimes they bring disaster, sometimes it's an end to a drought. Let all things storms inspire you for the April one-shot challenge!

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Art!

by Zab Jade on 04/02/2023 10:42  

Fanart can now be put directly on the site, instead of posted to the WotS forum. To do this, go to your account info and create a new story. Choose Art as the category, and instead of writing anything in the story field, insert an image. Your summary can be either a description of the image or a thumbnail. If your artwork is rated 18+ or Explicit, please make sure any thumbnails are safe for work.

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Musical March and The Recent Site Issue

by Zab Jade on 03/05/2023 22:20  

First off, the site was down for a few days, due to some issues the host ran into when having to change their servers. They actually did a really good job in a tough situation and got us back as quickly as they could.


Now for Musical March! This month, the focus is on music, and its role in our writing endeavors. The stories for the event don't have to be song fics (though those are welcome), just at least inspired by music.

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NaNo Writing Parties

by Zab Jade on 11/06/2022 18:14  

It's November, and that means it's time for NaNo. We'll be having regular writing parties all this month on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Anything can be worked on, whether it's for NaNo or not. Fanfic or original fiction, either way, come to the discord chat, and we'll cheer you on.

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Halloween Event and October Writing Parties

by Zab Jade on 09/30/2022 18:08  

October is coming up, and the Season of Spook is upon us. We'll be having writing parties every weekend in October on our Discord chat, and will be hosting a writing event. The event is to post, during the last week of October, a short Spuffy-freindly spooky story.

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Week Long Writing Party! August 15-21

by Fancyflautist on 08/14/2022 22:03  

Hello everyone! Starting on August 15 we're having a week long writing party on our Discord!


If you're new, you might be asking, "what's a writing party?" Great question.


Here at West of the Storm, we have writing parties as a way to encourage each other to reach our goals, and to discuss writing with others doing the same thing. Every person can pick a goal and discuss their progress, or you can just be a cheerleader if this is a bad week for writing or you aren't an author. Goals can be as big as "finish this multi-chapter fic" or as small as "make words happen on the page." Whatever it is you need to work on, the idea is to cheer each other on and help each other how we can.


To join our Discord and get in on the fun, follow the link http://discord.gg/ppd4jMQ ! Even if you miss this party, we have them fairly often and you can be notified by joining the server (the link never expires). We hope to see you there!

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Seasonal Spuffy Free-for-All tomorrow!

by Fancyflautist on 06/20/2022 17:49  

Hello everyone! In case you didn't know, tomorrow is the solstice free-for-all over at Seasonal Spuffy. This means the community is open for unposted fanfiction, artwork, videos- all your Spuffy fan creations. If you're interested, check out the announcement post here!

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Relaunch- Success!

by Fancyflautist on 06/17/2022 09:19  

Hello everyone, and welcome to the new and improved West of the Storm! We hope that you'll find the site much more user-friendly now. We can't wait to see all the amazing fiction you all submit!

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Musical March

by Zab on 03/20/2022 15:38  

It’s almost that time of year. Musical March. The month where we celebrate the impact of music on fanfic. Full on songfics, rewrites of OMWF, stories heavily inspired by music. All are welcome. And if you have a story in mind that fits Musical March but is also just a tad (or more) on the silly side…. Well, according to the doctor who told my grandma when my mom would be born, April 1st is also known as March 32nd.

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