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New Writer's Group from this Board
« on: October 23, 2006, 09:56:52 PM »
Ok, if I set up an invite-only BB for the authors here to write stories and post for each other, would people be interested?

This is nothing Jim-Official, just us getting together.

Phil Boswell has given us an unintentional challenge:
" How much mileage could you realistically get out of a protagonist who is good at reducing themselves to dripping goo?"

While the board would be open to helping anyone with any story, I was thinking about having writing assignments, to push people...that could be the first one
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2006, 02:18:00 AM »
Sounds like it could be fun, now I just had a thought, but since I'm not really very good at the sciences, I thought I'd check it (yes, this does pertain to this by the way).

I know that matter cannot be destroyed, only changed, now, since this goo would be less dense than a human being, the area that he/she covered in goo form would be greater would it not? I'm having ideas of drowning people in goo...

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2006, 05:47:27 PM »
Twould rock!

Goo? Think Alucard's smoke cloud from Symphony of the Night.
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2006, 11:42:42 PM »
I'd be interested.  A pile of goo?  Hmmm....  Have to think on that one. 

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2006, 11:41:52 PM »
I've got some ideas rolling around in that mysterious noggin of mine....

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2006, 03:30:57 PM »
I'm working on setting up a board. Bear with me. It'll probably be about 10 days or so.
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2006, 04:02:11 PM »
Yayyyyy!  ;D
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2006, 04:09:07 PM »
Huzzah!  Yay writing board!

Also...

Phil Boswell has given us an unintentional challenge:
" How much mileage could you realistically get out of a protagonist who is good at reducing themselves to dripping goo?"

...I am reminded of both Alucard from Hellsing and a character I once created for an X-Men RP by the codename of Quicksilver who could - guess what - turn himself into goo (with other varying he could do with that power).  If this is the first writing assignment, I may have to pull that character out of the depths of my brain where he's been buried for about 5 or 6 years and dust the poor dear off.
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2006, 04:15:40 PM »
Don't know how active I could be, but sounds like fun.

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2006, 06:18:24 PM »
*Happy Dance*   ;D  Even more reason to write!  I'm all up for that, though I'll probably look like a little dork next the experienced writers on the board.   ;)
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2006, 12:10:56 AM »
How do we start?
Getting valuable opinons on my stories is an exciting thing! You can only force your family to read so much!


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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2006, 12:45:15 AM »
I have to build the board, first, and I'm in training the next two weeks...I'm going to try to sneak one in.
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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2006, 04:16:45 PM »
Three words.

Yes. Yes. 

and, oh yeah...YES.

I'll take one writer's board with a side blunt feedback please.

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2006, 04:08:17 PM »
It's going slow, guys, sorry. Between training and a nasty bug that's going around, I'm abit on the exhausted side.

But I WILL get this up and running. I just want to do it right, which includes typing up an email everyone who gets a pw will have to agree to before they get that password (stuff like "I will not pilfer other's ideas, I understand that if my idea is pilfered, it's not the board's fault, ect"...stupid semi-legal stuff).
We are not nouns. We are VERBS. -Stephen Fry
The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -Muriel Rukeyser

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Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2006, 05:22:37 PM »
It's all good Mickey Finn.

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