quote:Originally posted by T5: Jack will ofcourse use this antidote for other purposes...tweak it a little hehe...so don´t worry guys, nothing is "fixed".
No, you have simply eliminated a very dangerous and large threat to both this fictional world and our team. In one post you crushed all the tension that had been created in this story. As one of our fellow posters said to me in an IM, "Good thing T5 posted when he did, or we might have actually had a story with lasting impact."
There seems to be a pattern as of late of posters eliminating threats and/or villians that other posters have created in an attempt to further their own subplots. If we are really supposed to be working together as a writing team, we need to stop this. It has gotten to the point where stories are being self contained and have little to no effects on those stories that come after it. And many posters are too concerned with their own subplots to participate in the main story, unless they find a way to further their own subplots in that story. Less and less interest is going into moving the main story along.
I know that we all have many different influences and ideas. All of them can be fit into these stories and work. All we have to do is to have consideration for the rest of the group and the story itself instead of trying to fashion it to meet our own ends. TTT did a great job of this in the last issue. He finally found a writing style that worked for his character and was totally different from anything else that was being done in this group. He wrote great posts that allowed his character to evolve all while progressing the story forward. Those posts didn't bog the story down or fulfill his subplot agenda. It simply told a story that was interesting. Many of those posts were long (gobdamn they were long), but I wanted to read them. At the same time, I've found myself ignoring many of the smaller posts because I found them to be too self-serving and bogging down the main story. There needs to be a balance to the personally character growth/development and the main story.
With that being said I think I'm going to withdraw Dirk from the main story for a bit. There have been a couple of things I wanted to do with him that sit outside of the group; and now events have come up that make his departure actually work naturally rather than me just yanking him out. So, I'll be doing that. And, hopefully, in the meantime we can all try and get together to talk about what we as writers and friends could do to help improve this experience.
