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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 506637" data-attributes="member: 4036">1. How many sessions deep are you into your story? (meaning- how many single game sessions have you written up for your SH so far?)Don't know but a math major could tell ya.  Almost 2 years playing every other week with 5 sessions missed.  How many is that?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2. Everyone seems to agree that a successful story hour can only come about as a result of passion on the writer's part for the story, not the glory. Still, how much do you value reader feedback?I meant to do the the SH originally for myself, my players, and to better my game.  But it ended up that I couldn't find the energy to do it if I didn't get feedback and it died.3. What percentage of your own players read the story, would you say?Let's see N,S,B,J/N,S,B,J,D = 80%.  I actually think this became a bad thing.  I can't explain why, but the only posts I got in the thread were from them, and I see them all the time.  I wanted to hear someone else's opinions, or enjoyment, or ideas on the subject, and I feel that posts from them not only egged me on to work harder but supressed any outside feedback.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I could be totally off base, and I'm definately not bitter about it.  Like I said, I don't really understand it, that's just the way I feel.4. Do you value the page views column on the main page? If so, do you feel like jumping from a bridge when you see Piratecat's views? Yes.  Highly.  The page view count gives me encouragement to keep at it.  PirateCat's view count doesn't discourage me at all.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It validates the value of the artform for me and gives me something to point at and say, "Hey.  It's worth reading.  Trust me.  X number of people reading, there's got to be something going on." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />5. What's the worst in-game moment you've had to write up? Examples could include a total party kill or heavily hyped bad guy going down in the first round, etc... Things that just don't really happen in epic fantasy fiction. An apology for missing a section.  That killed me to write.  But that wasn't technically in game.  I would have had one difficult part, but I dodged it as it would have been frowned upon by E.G. (not to be confused with E.G.G.), so that decision was happily made for me.6. What three things (single sentences each) would you say are most important in a good SH?Persistence.  A story hour must be updated at least 1/month to remain engrossing.Imagery.  I don't want to see players around a table in my mind's eye, I don't want to think about "He rolled a 36 on his percentiles", and I don't want to read "he got a good hit".  I want to see a jump just barely made by the finger tips and the sweat dropping off the hero's brow as he claws his way out of the precipice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  [I can't follow rules.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />]Personality.  Either the characters or the author must be engaging and entertaining in either a humorous, exciting, or mysterious fashion.7. What three things (single sentences each) would you say are most important in a good SH writing style?Grammar and Punctuation.  I can't help but be jarred by misused words, lack of paragraphs, or rampant spelling errors.The ability to encorporate dialogue is also something that makes my read much more enjoyable.I can't think of a third one.8. How many sessions behind are you in your writing, compared to where the campaign actually is, in-game? I'm currently up to date on our private boards but with the last two posts being just clipped notes with no narrative.  As a result of falling 4-5 games behind repeatedly (and due to some other things) my story hour died.9. Have you ever tried to turn events (discouraging a certain course of action, cheesing a rule, etc.) in-game for the benefit of the story hour? If so, have your players called you on it?Not that I remember, so no to the second question.10. If your story hour were published in novel form, paste here what you would want as the first-page teaser: several paragraphs from the story to hook the attention of a browsing bookstore patron.<a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7036" target="_blank">There's more here.</a></blockquote>

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