Still an average-sized member.
It should be obvious to anyone with a functional left brain that I haven't written for a good while, though.
During the second half of The Convention Adventure I realized that a majority of the writers who made the jump from the DCMBs to the RKMBs were no longer contributing. Several members hadn't posted in months, and the posts we did see from them were short and did nothing more than keep their characters in the story.
After a little prying I found out that many of the missing members simply missed the old write-whatever-the-fuck-we-feel-like-writing method we had going in JLR: The Beginning. The majority of the JLR wants less structure and more fun, and I can live with that.
I have to admit I think I'm chiefly responsible for the shift to long, structured storylines. I helped bog down the writing process because a) I hoped it would attract more writers, and b) outside the JLR, that's how I write. I wanted to correct my past mistake, so I stopped posting to the story in hopes that the fun (and the posters) would return.
But that didn't happen.
Instead we had two people writing. Two of the ten or so writers who helped start and/or expressed interest in contributing to this thing. I wasn't happy with that at all. That's why I had no problem with the idea of killing the team and putting it out of its misery.
If Brit wants the JLR to continue, then I'll go along. I'll contibute every so often, but not like before. I don't want to monopolize the JLR like I did with the last story. I want to see the old guys contribute. I think some of the funniest and best posts were the old ones from La Machine, Ace, (young), RM, blah, blah, and blah. It's probably too late to get every one of the old heads back, but it would be peachy.
Finally, use shampoo. I can practically see the dandruff from atop this soapbox.
