Mmmm... toast...

[liralen]

Okay... I'll admit it, I let the Thorn and Ash story take me for a while. It's... odd to do that again, and know that I can just concentrate on it. Much as I did on chatsubo when I was writing there. But no one else to really answer to. That's odd, too. No one to meld styles with or concepts with and... that's pretty cool.

Class was odd and cool last night. The last thing I expected out of Jeremiah was a message of hope. Of how to live life, and to just face the consequences and what's really there, in order to do what's necessary, even if it isn't liked, and keep going on to something better.

I think that that and something blackwingedboy wrote broke open something for number 3. That felt right. Staying up until 1 to get it all out wasn't quite the best thing I could have done, in a way, but I really wanted to get out of the way of what I had to write...

Comments

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Food for thought. I should go look at Jeremiah. I suspect it's either the economy or global warming but it's tough to shake this sense of impending doom I have when I try to fall asleep.

I've been saving up your writing for after the semester.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Jeremiah is very good for doom.

It was someone else's interpretation that the whole going to Babylon thing was a group of them finally facing up to the consequences, going into Exile on purpose to seek God's will even in the hard thing.

I hadn't realized that this was when the ten tribes of Israel were lost, either. That Assyria just wiped 'em out... and only the tribes of Judah were left of the whole. That was sobering.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

And, yes, I'm really looking forward to any comments you might make. :-)

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Wow, chatsubo... now there's a bit of nostalgia :)

Somehow the group-story-telling aspect of chatsubo reminds me of something I saw on the net somewhere which seemed like an interesting idea... I don't have the URL around, but it was basically a Wiki-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. Each "node" described your situation and then presented various options for what you could do, just as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. You could follow one of the choices and see what happened, or you could use the Wiki aspects of the site to add a new choice to that node and describe what happened if you did that.

When I glanced at it, it was suffering from the problem that when you open something up to the whole world, many people are idiots. I think one of the choices on one of the very first pages was something like "Use my omnipotent powers to destroy the universe." But if you limited access to people you trusted to play by the rules, and/or had some kind of pruning mechanism for getting rid of crap, it could be pretty interesting.

Not that any of that is particularly relevant to what you said, but it reminded me of the Wiki thing and I thought you might find it a neat concept.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Woo.

That is an interesting concept... :-)

Again, like with the Chat, it's hard to know who to play with and who isn't that fun to play with. *grin*...

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

You know... it occurs to me that you could do this on LJ. Create a community and admit people you can play well with. Each posting is a node in the story; people reply with comments supplying choices, which link to posts containing the results of that choice, and so on.

Dang. If I had free time, I'd be tempted to start one of these.

Round robin LJ story

[amberley.livejournal.com]

telophase is experimenting with a round-robin multi-author fiction at http://telophase.livejournal.com/1046691.html with branches in the comments.

Re: Round robin LJ story

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

See, I knew it couldn't be an original idea.

S/He's using the comment tree to contain all the branches, which is different than I was imagining... and seems likely to run into limits pretty quickly.

Hmm. Maybe I'll try to get something set up over Christmas, when I'll be on vacation from work and school. If I did, would any of y'all want to play?

Re: Round robin LJ story

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I'd play. :-)

Re: Round robin LJ story

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Did you ever do anything with this?

Re: Round robin LJ story

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oooo...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

It's kind of interesting realizing that I really don't have as much of a push to do the interactive thing with other people. I really need to, in some ways, figure out if I really can just write on my own stuff that's actually worth reading.

I'm not very good with the self-confidence thing yet, and it's easier to use other people as a crutch in my state. I keep going, well... I didn't do as well as I wanted to, or what they did to the story wasn't what I would have done... or... that plot sure isn't any good. Or... whatever... when other people bend the story, it's easy to just throw up my hands now and give up on it. Or just not really think of it as *mine* something to be proud of.

I know Model 66 wasn't mine. *laughter* Too many people put too much work into it, so it's hard for me to really use it to build on and think... oh... maybe I am good at this writing stuff.

So it's a little weird in my head in some ways.

But it's also fun to play off other people's ideas...

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I should look that up sometime -- I assume it exists somewhere on the net. I remember that circumstances caused me to suddenly drop out of it just as things were reaching a climax, and I don't know that I ever found out whether we all won or not :)

[marith.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to reading your thorn and ash posts! They look so cool. Also, your dreams are as vivid as mine :)

(not reading hardly anything right now for some reason, but saving lots of things up for break)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Saving for when you can!

Don't know if it would be easier when you get around to it or not, but my writing tag should just have the writing stuff in it and it all just started on Nov 1 and through the month. I might keep going, though, after the end of the month, as there seems to be a lot that wants to get written, still.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

And, just so you know, I'm really looking forward to any comments you might have.