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While working on putting the zine together, I've been getting increasingly dissatisfied with the title of it, which would be the same as the name of the contest most of the stories are coming from. I don't think there's any reason they need to be the same, and I thought something that wasn't...

November will soon be upon us, and with us the tradition of writing a whole lot of words. It's been a tumultuous year for NaNoWriMo, so whether you're doing that challenge, Novelember, November Writing Month, or any sort of push to get writing in November, feel free to discuss it here! Feel free...

Magical but Mundane One-Shot Contest Results It's time at last to share the results of Thousand Roads' fifth one-shot contest! We ended up with sixteen lovely stories of daily life, and despite the "mundane" in the contest title, I think you'll find them anything but boring! There are a lot of...

Exquisite Corpse 2024 It's time to kick off the 2024 edition of Exquisite Corpse! An Exquisite Corpse is a frankenfic created by a group of authors working together... without getting the full story of what's going on! Anything can happen as the story passes from one writer to the next...

It's July, and that means it's time for another round of Exquisite Corpse! If you've never played this game before, it's a collaborative storytelling exercise where a group of writers gets together to create a collaborative story--with the twist that each player only knows the last two sentences...

If you weren't aware, FFN has been completely offline since July 12th. The official Twitter account recently released a statement about the outage, claiming that it's a result of a complaint about child abuse-related materials hosted on the site from their domain registrar. So when do you think...

Magical but Mundane: A Pokémon Fanzine Since our yearly contests already bring together a lot of fanworks on a common theme, I thought it would be fun to expand that idea into a full-on zine! This year's contest entries will provide the zine's backbone, but if you weren't into writing a...

One-Shot Contest: Magical but Mundane The Pokémon World is a place of adventure, full of legendary heroes, outlandish villains, and world-ending threats. However, it’s also full of people living peaceful lives: spending their days at work or school, keeping up with their hobbies, and taking for...

One-Shot Contest 2024 Theme Poll + Judge Call It's that time of year once again! We'll be hosting our fifth annual one-shot contest this June, and that means to kick things off we'll first need to decide what everyone's most excited to write about. Thanks to everyone who offered up potential...

Fourth Anniversary Speed Catnip Speed catnip returns! This fast and furious event lets you sample several fics in a short period of time, while also getting super-quick feedback on your own stories. This event is always a load of fun, so I'm excited to bring it back for our fifth anniversary...

Fifth Anniversary Banner Collab Over the first five years of Thousand Roads, we've been introduced to hundreds of wonderful stories and an even larger cast of characters to populate them. We're also fortunate to have many members who're talented in visual art as well as writing! One way we'd...

Thousand Roads' Fifth Anniversary Celebration It seems hard to believe, but as of April 24th, Thousand Roads has been around for half a decade! We've come a long way from that first April of a couple dozen members and our tiny Grand Opening Celebration. We're at over 400 members across Discord...

Fifth Anniversary Drabble Bingo Drabble bingo returns for another year! The premise is simple: request a bingo card, optionally specify a theme, and receive nine prompts in return. You can ask for pretty much any theme for your prompts: perhaps you'd like some hurt/comfort prompts, or prompts...

Fifth Anniversary Mini Review Blitz As usual, our fifth anniversary will host a small review event to match our small writing challenge! All those new drabbles are perfect targets for a bit of feedback, or you can catch up on your existing reading list. This year's theme is new shoots! Write...

Fifth Anniversary Fic Readings We've had a handful of fic-reading voice chats in the past, including our regular Exquisite Corpse readings, but I thought this year it might be fun to offer people the opportunity to read some of their own stories, enjoy reading others' fics, or simply listen in...

Fifth Anniversary Event Planning Believe it or not, Thousand Roads will have been around for five whole years as of April 24th! Since that's a Wednesday, we'll be hosting our celebration April 27th - May 11th this year, but look out for some sign-up threads popping up over the next week for...

Exquisite Corpse Index Exquisite corpse is a party game originating in the early 1900's and originally popular among surrealists. These days we play a version updated for the internet, and usually with a pokémon twist: everyone who participates writes one scene of an ongoing story, while only...

Welcome to our second heist exquisite corpse for 2023, and the last to be posted for the 2023 season! Our writers have put together a thrilling tale of high-stakes thievery and thrilling action (and cats!), with just as many twists and turns as you'd expect from an exquisite corpse. Our crack...

Welcome to the second of 2023's villainous team grunt corpses! For this story, our writers followed the typical day in the life of a grunt in one of the Pokémon world's evil teams. As you might imagine, it's a perfectly normal and stress-free lifestyle! We had eight authors collaborating on this...

Another Review Blitz is now well over, and it's time to think back on how it went and how it could be even better in future years! There weren't any dramatic changes to the event's structure this year, but there are a couple things I'd like to think about going forward. First, the topic of this...