Tales of the Parodyverse - Re: What story would you like to see?

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Subj: Re: What story would you like to see?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 at 04:08:40 am EDT (Viewed 6 times)

Reply Subj: What story would you like to see?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 at 12:43:01 pm EDT (Viewed 436 times)

I have one PVB story that involves Lara Night being hunted. It's not yet finished, but I'm ahead of schedule enough that I could start posting it. The problem is, it includes characters that are currently involved in other things in Ian's posts - so I may end up having to re-write a large part of it, meaning the story will be suspended in the middle.

I also have a World Class story in 5 parts so far I can post, but I'm not sure anyone will read it. The last World Class I posted got zero replies.

Or, I can hold off posting entirely this week until the next story with Shen Rae has a chapter or two completed.

Suggestions?

Sorry for the delay in replying. The last couple of times I've tried I've just not had the patience to struggle with the multiple reloads required for me to interact with the board right now. Today I'm making an effort.

It's an odd time for the PVB just now. In part that's my fault, since I've tied up everybody's cast in a complicated and lengthy status-quo changing plotline that's holding other people up. I apologise. Things are exacerbated because we're at the very lower margin of viable poster activity.

Instinctively it feels to me thatr the short-term solution is for people to write quick-win one-off stories, character pieces or complete-in-one action scenes or whatever. It feels like its time to offer instant gratification tales to offer a good experience to occasional-but-confused readers and adds value to those who are familiar with the characters and situations.

So an in-depth look at one character might be the way forward, or a team-up or conversation between two characters that don't usually talk (Liu Xi/ebony, Anna/Flapjack, Chiaki/Dancer, Mr Papadapopolis/detectives, Lara/Lisa), or a pure action scene against a genuine supervillain might be a refreshing palette-cleanser.

It instinctively feels like the wrong moment to launch a big multi-part story that expects to carry readership with it.

I should emphasise that I hope that's a temporary board condition. I hope to find time to complete the Untold Tales line-up story, with the first parts appearing later this week. I hope that generates some momentum and reinforces regular site-visiting and responding habits. So by this time next week me may have an entirely different zeitgeist on the board.

However, the first rule should be "Write what you want to write", or better yet "Write what you can't resist writing" and the rest should roll out from there.