Post by Chantal on Aug 26, 2008 20:03:38 GMT -5
Aside from writing Pern and Star Trek, I also like to write in medieval fantasy role-playing games.
In 1999, I joined one called Imperial Secrets. It was the best RPG ever--freeform, tale-weaving emphasis, meaning that you were required to write your posts as if you were writing a novel. It had an excellent, dedicated team of moderators, and it had grown enough to encompass seven separate Isles (settings). That was probably a large part of its undoing. It was also done in by the fact that we learned the DM had been lying to everyone about his identity. For starters, we thought he was a she. We also thought s/he was a bit older than 16, which wasn't the case.
Still, it was a brilliant RP, rich with depth, detailed and consistent histories, nce the better writers started straightening them up, and just really well-written stories told by great storytellers.
At the moment, Imperial Secrets is my current obssession besides StarRise.
I was a member of IMS from 1999 until 2004, when it folded, and I have been around for at least two revival attempts. I still write and submit the occasional post for it because I had created a very long-reaching story arc, which would have required at least 12 years to play out, if done in real time. And yes, the game was so incredibly solid that I think many of us really did think it could last that long.
So I'm working at turning my characters' story into a novel. The problem is, is starts out as a very dark novel. \\
The wayt IMS was set up, there were usually three or four countries--the Good Country, the Evil Country, the Neutral Country, and the Chaotic Country.
My characters on the island of L'Isle were natives of Dakarta, the Evil Country, where the Evil religion held sway and was embraced by the entire population--and if you didn't embrace it, you didn't talk about your religious dissent, or you would face very dreadful consequences. No punches were pulled about how evil the religion was.
My main characters (two brothers) were in their own ways both victims of the religion, even though one of them became a priest in it. Their father wanted to sire the seventh son of a seventh son, and he made his entire family suffer for it.
I'm not quite sure how I'm going to be able to lead readers bast the initial dark beginning to the brighter parts of the story, but I guess all I can do is just write it and see how it goes.
In 1999, I joined one called Imperial Secrets. It was the best RPG ever--freeform, tale-weaving emphasis, meaning that you were required to write your posts as if you were writing a novel. It had an excellent, dedicated team of moderators, and it had grown enough to encompass seven separate Isles (settings). That was probably a large part of its undoing. It was also done in by the fact that we learned the DM had been lying to everyone about his identity. For starters, we thought he was a she. We also thought s/he was a bit older than 16, which wasn't the case.
Still, it was a brilliant RP, rich with depth, detailed and consistent histories, nce the better writers started straightening them up, and just really well-written stories told by great storytellers.
At the moment, Imperial Secrets is my current obssession besides StarRise.
I was a member of IMS from 1999 until 2004, when it folded, and I have been around for at least two revival attempts. I still write and submit the occasional post for it because I had created a very long-reaching story arc, which would have required at least 12 years to play out, if done in real time. And yes, the game was so incredibly solid that I think many of us really did think it could last that long.
So I'm working at turning my characters' story into a novel. The problem is, is starts out as a very dark novel. \\
The wayt IMS was set up, there were usually three or four countries--the Good Country, the Evil Country, the Neutral Country, and the Chaotic Country.
My characters on the island of L'Isle were natives of Dakarta, the Evil Country, where the Evil religion held sway and was embraced by the entire population--and if you didn't embrace it, you didn't talk about your religious dissent, or you would face very dreadful consequences. No punches were pulled about how evil the religion was.
My main characters (two brothers) were in their own ways both victims of the religion, even though one of them became a priest in it. Their father wanted to sire the seventh son of a seventh son, and he made his entire family suffer for it.
I'm not quite sure how I'm going to be able to lead readers bast the initial dark beginning to the brighter parts of the story, but I guess all I can do is just write it and see how it goes.