The Bad Novel

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

bleh on you all. I worry about silly because it comes closer to parody and is less like just plain bad writing.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Bad writing doesn't mean it has to be boring and seriously bad. It just has to be bad in the sense that you have characters in a setting that at times doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. We know the rules, now we just have to break them. So, I think we can do that by being silly. Sorry for appeasing everyone against you SE. =P

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

*shrug* don't get defensive. I'm just saying I don't want to be outrageously silly. I don't have a lot of time to donate to projects, so I'll back out in a genteel manner if that's what you guys want to do, because I just don't think it will be ultimately satisfying.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well, it doesn't all have to be silly. I mean, we're writing a bad novel. Going from happy-go-lucky to seriously modest. That'd make a good bad novel.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

meh.

edit: I guess what I'm really saying is that the PREMISE shouldn't be silly. That looks like you aren't even trying. The idea is to use skill to purposely make it look bad. I don't know if I make sense to you, but there's no point for it to me if that's not what we're doing. That's all.

edit again:
I'm thinking about it. the reason why the premise would be silly is that it would be a much more clever work if it LOOKS like we're actually trying, but that we just failed.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I think it's important to enjoy writing it though. And writing the same old plot is a little bland and boring sounding to me. Maybe we could find a compromise?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

see, that's what would MAKE me enjoy it. i get MUCH mroe satisfaction out of something that demonstrates my skill, and feel simply that i've wasted something of myself when i do something utterly worthless.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Now, isn't the point of this thing to be utterly pointless? At least to the point that it's just horrendous. Which is to say that you can do as you will with your part, and others will take their part and do as they wish. No?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

No one will read it if it's utterly pointless. The point is to demonstrate your talent by calculating somethin bad.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Look not everything you write has to be designed to impmress people.  I just want to do this if it's fun.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ok, so explain again what it is we're trying to accomplish here?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

then do it. Like I said, I'll just not participate. I won't tell you not too. I'm just telling you why I'd do it.

[MsFish]

I want to play, but it makes me sad if SE isn't going to play anymore, because it was his idea, and he's cool.  

[Mistress of Darkness]

I second that.

SE, does this mean there can be no compromise?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

*shrug*
It doesn't sound like I want the same things out of it that everyone else does. It seems to make sense that I would spend my time making comics rather than writing something that I won't enjoy, and let others write somethign they want.