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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cinerarium" data-source="post: 942079" data-attributes="member: 9349">Thoughts on the Story HourSo after such a long break it's been tough to get back into the story hour.  Now admittedly, what I just posted still leaves another 20 pages of written stuff left to go.But one of the other reasons it was tough to get back into was that I've been reading more of the other story hours, like Destan's, PirateCat's, etc., and they're all darn good.  I like them better than this one.  So that got me down a bit.But then I thought about it some, and I thought about why I started this in the first place.  And it wasn't to write great fiction or anything -- I find that hard to do in a journal format.  If I had to do it over again I'd probably pick more of a memoir, looking back on the life of Goetryn or something.  Or as a biography, whatever.  That way it'd be easier to get into the heads of the other characters, describe points of view that Tryn wasn't a part of, etc.  In short, tell a better story.So the reason I started the whole thing was really, at the end of the day, to capture what went on during the session for my benefit, so everybody in the group could look back and remember what happened when, who the important people are, etc.  I also know, having DM'd quite a bit in the past, that it's nice to have a reference written from the players' points of view, to know how they're keeping up with the storyline.  So I find myself intentionally including minutiae that isn't that good of a read, but might be useful to us or smalls in the future.I guess I'm done being defensive, but I had to go through this process myself just to get back into writing the story hours again, to get psyched up for writing them again.Thanks for listening to the rant,Cinerarium</blockquote>

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