> And I'm not going away.
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At least I'm not the only potentially crazy one here.
> > 1.  Where do you think people are going?
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> I have no idea, which is one of the things that concerns me.
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Quite a lot of people in this world are "bridge burners" - they can just one day walk away from something they've spent years working on and never turn back or think about it again. It kind of sucks that I'm not one of them, because I'm usually left wondering where all of them went.
I guess that stems from my tendency to question my own decisions all the time.
> > 2.  Do you wish the PVB was something it currently isn't?  Different kinds of stories, missing characters, etc?  Or has it gone too soft, gotten too silly, etc?
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> My only problems with it right now are the lack of replies (and I do apologize for overlooking your last World Class) and the bad noise that results from the same, either because of people pronouncing the board dead, or others coming out of lurking to tell those who are complaining to shut up, neither of whom do anything to improve my mood. I have mixed feelings on the long round-robins and extended epics, because while they've inspired me to move forward with certain character developments, they've also discouraged me from writing other stories, because it often feels like my characters are trapped in a holding pattern, waiting for other writers' plot developments.
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I know the current main plot is kind of locked up and moving very slowly. I emailed Ian that I was worried it was causing people to take longer and longer breaks from reading (i.e. if they would only check the board once a week, the lack of tie-ins and such have made it every 2 to 3 weeks). I offered to help by taking some of the subplots off his hands to move things along, but I think my offer may have been too little and too late.
> > 4.  Is there someplace else, possibly an alternative to the PVB that you feel is a better investment of your leisure time?  Another message board?  Facebook?  Something similar?
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> I have to admit, I've been spending more time writing fanfic on LiveJournal, even though I still want to tell stories about my own characters, and one of the reasons is because I can get anywhere from a dozen to a hundred replies to one of my fanfics.
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Ironically I used to write unique fanfic (posted to a Yahoo Group at the time), but I gave it up because the audience shrunk to nothing. It was fun to write for my own amusement, but not too good a use of time without an audience. I believe at one time I posted some of the Batgirl fanfic I did here.
