Timewaster's Guide Archive

You could just put up a board in AR to fit our needs, couldn't you? Then there wouldn't be a need to delete AR, as it wouldn't be dead anymore.

If you insisted upon it, we could keep it in RE, but there seems to be an interest in it beyond our little writing games and such.

I guess my characterizations were more than a little off. The kids aren't proficient with their weapons, though I can see I didn't do any amount of work portraying that. It was supposed to be a matter of snapping them up in response to a threat - in my mind, a sword is better than nothing when you're being attacked.

As for Fuei being a child, I'll have to do a re-read and find all of the clues to this - maybe it's just a matter of characterizing him better. In case I didn't make it obvious (it seems I didn't...) he's not from around here. I'm actually giving him his own book, showing everything he did leading up to here. (If I changed the word "youth" to "young man" in the opening bit, think that would help color him as being older?)

One issue I feel I'm having is that I want a good action scene right off the bat, to hook the reader in (because chapter 1 infodumps... euch...), but I also need to put in enough plot-matter to establish what's going on - and that's proving tricky.

I'm glad you guys liked Jordan's last line though: I think it characterizes him perfectly, in one sentence.

That would be Legen  - (wait for it...) - dary!

I think I have a recipe for lemon poppy seed muffins somewhere hereabouts...

This is going to get buried with the second set of submissions.

Also, while in Jordan's POV you use Fuei's name, but Jordan doesn't seem to know who Fuei is, so it seems strange that you would refer to Feui by name even though you're using Jordan's POV.

Raethe, he did introduce himself. I'm sure in the craziness and overpace of it, it probably got lost.

Splitting the group is a fundamentally bad idea, both in terms of reprecussions, and the administrative issues that would come along with it. What if for a month I got busy, and decided I couldn't or didn't want to submit, but then for the next two weeks, I felt like turning stuff in?

Would I switch back and forth between groups?

Then we also loose the advantage of diversity, with two different groups. If I'm in one group, and Chaos is in another, and I like his story and want to keep up the critiques on it, I can't; which means he just lost a potential reader and someone who WANTS to keep critiquing his work.

Working on semi-spontaneous weekly submissions gives everyone a fair chance to get reviewed, and anyone who has the time to submit, should have the time to review - so the sumbit/review ratio remains at a rough 1:1 (AT LEAST). It more easily fosters the "I want to be a reader" people as well; technically they're members of the group, just ones that don't submit (and when they do, they'll be first up!).

Points are nice, and everyone trying to adjust the cycle frequency to their schedules is to be anticipated, but they can't work: the first takes faaaaar too much administrative back-end, and the second... blegh. The weekly opt-in requires very little: enough to maintain the current list, as well as deciding how many people can submit weekly, and picking out people who should get priority based on submissions.

VOTE THE AVALON METHOD!

Don't criticize her word-fumbling, she's a bit grumpy tonight

I like the idea of having the slightly more productive people being able to push content at a higher rate. Those of us writing novels are churning out WAY more than 3500 words every month, and people who want to sit back and relax through tricky stuff  can.

What about this:

We have submit days on Saturdays, but to sign up for Saturday submission, you have to have your name on the list (which opens one week before the submission date) by Thursday (to keep people from trying to last-minute  sign up for submissions). Moderators choose when we have enough people signed up (10 people max?), and people who haven't submitted as much get preference (if I've been turning in chapters weekly, and Raethe decides to turn in a short story after 3 weeks of nothing, she should get preference); people with relatively similar # of submissions would by FCFS.

Edit:
I included a handy diagram ^^



if you want to submit on a Saturday of a particular color, you have to put your name on the list during a day with that colored line on it.