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<blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 1906598" data-attributes="member: 11300"><p>Hi Glassjaw,</p><p></p><p>I second the advice Hairy Minotaur received: "Write for yourself"!</p><p>The readers tastes are so wide and varied on these boards that you're bound to find people who really dig what you do, no matter how conventional or strange. You'll get a much better result and you'll be far more motivated if you write what you enjoy.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I like to copy and paste stories into word, print them out and read them at home [I enworld at work you see]. As such, I prefer full-on prose rather than stop-start logs of this happened and then this happened and then that happened. Particularly when your campaign is Grim Tales, you can channel so much flavour through descriptive prose that would otherwise be lost in a conventional "dry" log. You can blend the two for the best of both worlds which is what most people try to do.</p><p></p><p>As for my own Story Hour, I like the idea of a central character "Lucifus Cray" but I also like shifting the perspective here and there. In this way, you can blend different versions of the same event which is enlightening when you want to really explore different characters and perspectives. Giving hints and clues to what's really going on becomes a bit of a game as people try to join up all the threads. Descriptive prose is the best way to do this and thus, that is what I use for my own story hour. You demand a lot more from your readers but the rewards all round are so much larger when you drop that earth shattering revelation, kill that character or do something that is totally unexpected. In the end, it becomes so much fun.</p><p></p><p>For yourself however and in the end, do what you want, not what you think other people want.</p><p></p><p>Best Regards</p><p>Herremann the Wise</p><p></p><p>PS: My story hour is relatively new and so would not require too long to catch up on if you want a fun read. Apologies for pimping it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herremann the Wise, post: 1906598, member: 11300"] Hi Glassjaw, I second the advice Hairy Minotaur received: "Write for yourself"! The readers tastes are so wide and varied on these boards that you're bound to find people who really dig what you do, no matter how conventional or strange. You'll get a much better result and you'll be far more motivated if you write what you enjoy. Personally, I like to copy and paste stories into word, print them out and read them at home [I enworld at work you see]. As such, I prefer full-on prose rather than stop-start logs of this happened and then this happened and then that happened. Particularly when your campaign is Grim Tales, you can channel so much flavour through descriptive prose that would otherwise be lost in a conventional "dry" log. You can blend the two for the best of both worlds which is what most people try to do. As for my own Story Hour, I like the idea of a central character "Lucifus Cray" but I also like shifting the perspective here and there. In this way, you can blend different versions of the same event which is enlightening when you want to really explore different characters and perspectives. Giving hints and clues to what's really going on becomes a bit of a game as people try to join up all the threads. Descriptive prose is the best way to do this and thus, that is what I use for my own story hour. You demand a lot more from your readers but the rewards all round are so much larger when you drop that earth shattering revelation, kill that character or do something that is totally unexpected. In the end, it becomes so much fun. For yourself however and in the end, do what you want, not what you think other people want. Best Regards Herremann the Wise PS: My story hour is relatively new and so would not require too long to catch up on if you want a fun read. Apologies for pimping it. [/QUOTE]
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