Story hours everyone should read

[ledded]

Hell, I'll toss in my two coppers. First, let the dead story hours lie. Go to something with life, something that gets updated frequently.

I have to respectfully disagree. It aint dead until no one remembers it .

Coming from a fringe author, if you restrict yourself to only reading a certain type of story hour (D&D, Dragonlance, Supers, Blindfolded Monkies on Crank, etc) or to reading only the ones near the top of the page, then you will miss out on a LOT of real gems. Quite frankly, just because it's popular doesnt necessarily mean it's the best (John Grisham has taught us that, eh?) though admittedly most of the fairly popular ones on ENWorld are quite good. Some of the best Stories I've read have been ones that were very, very popular, but then also ones that very, very few people ever discovered. If you do trip across an obscure, neglected story, and you really like it, by all means pimp that guy when you have a chance.

So take the advice of folks who have cruised the story hour boards and remember some of the "dead" ones; every now and then, look up one of those old, crusty, dust-covered story hours. You never know what you might get. Myself, I havent had time to really get into any SH's in months, so my advice is on some stories that have a bit of age on them just because I dont get to read many anymore. So I come to these threads to see what stories all the cool kids are talking about, then go read them

So look out Orcs On The Rampage, I'll be seeing you soon.

Aww, shucks! Keep that up and I might get motivated to update again!

Joshua Dyal (his latest is a personal fave)

Coming from you, I take that as a big compliment. I will take this opportunity to NOT press you for an update of your WWII supers Story Hour (which rocks in case anybody isn't reading it).

Heck man, that wasnt a compliement so much as a statement of fact. You got skillz .

 

[johnsemlak]

I copied (contact)'s TOEE story hour into Word and saved it as one file. I'm uploading it for anyone who wants it.

 

[barsoomcore]

Just because a little pimpage rarely goes astray, I'll note that both Wild Stewardess Action and Barsoom Tales are likewise available in easy-to-read text files in the initial posts of each thread. Dead Man's Chest hasn't been so treated because it's not yet complete.

Enjoy!

 

[pogre]

You know, I had kind of written off Old One's Story Hour set in a mythic Rome off as one of my favorite dead story hours, but that's not fair at all. OO has updated at least three times in July, which is very respectable and breakneck pace compared to Sepulchrave And he at least let's us know when he will not be around for a while.

I used to enjoy comparing notes from OO to Rel to see what direction Rel was taking things - very cool stuff.


Too bad Wulf is to lazy to crank up a new story hour - it's like he's busy or has a big event coming up or something...

 

[Desdichado]

Since everyone else is doing it, I'll also pimp mine. Star Wars goodness with some unique stuff of its own...and daily updates(generally)!

No, no, you've got it all wrong! It's bad form to pimp your own story hour--you have to carefully pimp someone else's story hour, hope that they see it and return the favor, and then you can do some pimpage on the reply.

Jumping right into pimping your own story hour is a serious breach of pimpage ethics.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

No, no, you've got it all wrong! It's bad form to pimp your own story hour--you have to carefully pimp someone else's story hour, hope that they see it and return the favor, and then you can do some pimpage on the reply.

Jumping right into pimping your own story hour is a serious breach of pimpage ethics.

Better tell Ranger Wickett and der_kluge before you talk to me. Its their fault I pimped mine.

Besides, the only others I can manage to read were already mentioned in the thread.

 

[fett527]

Thanks to Rel and Tamlyn for pimping Small Beginnings. Links are in my sig and also a quote from Rel which I relish enough to keep it in my sig. (I don't write it by the way that is dshai527's and Enkhidu's work. I edit and consult and put stuff in the rogue's gallery when appropriate)

Please check out Rel's stuff as well. can't say enough good things about his threads.

 

[Micah]

I read a lot of the storyhour in my sig

 

[jezter6]

For sci-fi done in all it's campy goodness, you should be required to read the Spaseship Zero game. By far my favorite story hour evar:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=61544