Well I think part of it is some are holding on to those golden days, where chars
like Steve, Jo, etc were roaming around and they and their writers were beacons
of encouragment and such, now that they're gone I guess we're kind of like a
platoon without a leader. I would say just a new venue in general would be a
good thing, something with an original setting much like CAPOW had before it
died. Perhaps moving back to the newsgroup for some recruitment?

Though some of that is this writer's own frustration showing, having been around
since 1998 and fighting to get in storylines and not written out, then finally
having that moment show, then Oh sorry Hiatus, then during that span having a
huge chunk of people vanish, move on and when things start up.

It was akin to leaving town for a week for a vacation, and coming back to an
empty neighborhood with for sale signs on the houses of all your friends, and
being left with zero direction and feeling totally alienated

 


--- On Tue, 4/14/09, sam_previs <sam_previs@...> wrote:

> From: sam_previs <sam_previs@...>
> Subject: [gritpost] Re: Hmm so now what
> To: gritpost@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:17 PM
> --- In gritpost@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Mastriani"
> <PowerOfQi@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > An interesting point,a ctually... which leads me
> to actually expand upon option number 3. Perhaps, to explain
> the dissappearances of so many characters, there has indeed
> been a lapse in time since the Haitus... say, 3-10 years?
> This would leave the flexability of things such as character
> deaths (please limit deaths to your own, dont want to kill
> off other player's characters), them moving on in life
> and the world, etc.
> >
> >
> > Well, if we're going to go that far, it'd make
> more sense to go even farther into the future. Perhaps a
> century or more, if people are comfortable with a more
> sci-fi setting. That way just what happened to everyone can
> be conveniently obscured by the passage of time, leaving us
> with a world shaped by their deeds without the need to state
> anyone's explicit fate.
> >
> > Personally, though, if people aren't interested
> now, I still think we'd be better served just doing
> something completely different. A true change of pace to
> refresh the creative process.
> >
> >
> Hmm, a whole century does seem like a better idea. I guess
> what we really need now are people's oppinions.
>
> -Sam
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