What is your favorite story hour - and Why?

[Plane Sailing]

I like storyhours with regular updates and where there is a fairly high proportion of story compared to comment. Having said that, it is always interesting in Wulf's storyhour when comment goes off into realms of discussion about sneaking vs blindsight, or the problems of certain spell combinations or whatever!

I also find things easier when (as well as short paragraphs) the story posts come in short sections. It makes it much easier to read things a bit at a time.

I like reading storyhours which are related to adventures I have either played in, run or are likely to run, for the ideas I get.

I also like ones which are more "adventure log" than "straight fiction" if you know what I mean.

(incidentally, I was rather pleased to have been included in Knightfalls poll, even if I only got there through sheer bloody-mindedness! Hopefully rubbing shoulders with entertaining storyhour writers like all the well-known ones will rub off sooner or later )

 

[Piratecat]

I love your stuff, PS.

And you bring up an interesting point: Wulf thinks that leaving comments in makes a story hour more homey. I find it distracting and annoying for new readers if they aren't judiciously pruned, removing non-plot-related comments and bumps. Do you folk have an opinion?

 

[Jodo Kast]

I think some pruning is probably advisable after awhile. Part of the difficulty of diving into these story hours for someone relatively new, like myself, is their enormity. For some, there are far more non-plot comment posts than actual story posts. I think comments are great and appreciate them tremendously in my thread, but after a month or so it would be nice to prune back comments I think.

 

[el-remmen]

I prune all the bumps - but keep the commentary - unfortunately, i have more bumps than commentary - for some reason my readers rarely say much aside from "good update" or "we want more now or we will kidnap your children and feed them to Dinkledog".

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wulf thinks that leaving comments in makes a story hour more homey. I find it distracting and annoying for new readers if they aren't judiciously pruned, removing non-plot-related comments and bumps.

Which is why I have adopted the brilliant system of archiving all of my posts to the front of the thread. I usually try to do this after every new post.

So when a new post goes up on page 12, post #600, it will also go up on page 2, appended right onto the end of the story in correct chronology.

Anyone who starts my story hour from page 1 can get caught up without having his read interrupted by any commentary.

Wulf

 

[Plane Sailing]

Which is why I have adopted the brilliant system of archiving all of my posts to the front of the thread. I usually try to do this after every new post.

So when a new post goes up on page 12, post #600, it will also go up on page 2, appended right onto the end of the story in correct chronology.

Anyone who starts my story hour from page 1 can get caught up without having his read interrupted by any commentary.

Wulf

Is there no end to his dwarvish cunning?!?

Someone on the general board today was asking a question about running "Deep Horizon" and I directed him to your storyhour, and I was astonished to find DH on page 2... now I understand how

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Is there no end to his dwarvish cunning?!?

More cunning still:

I have patented this method of archiving my story and thus lowering the barrier of entry to new readers.

You may emulate it, but you will have to pay me.

Probably the easiest way is just to print out the limited User License from the back of my book, "Pimpin' Your Story Hour For Dummies."

 

[Zad]

I guess that's the benefit of having a less widely-read story hour - I don't have to pay kickbacks to Wulf

 

[Rune]

I like storyhours with regular updates and where there is a fairly high proportion of story compared to comment. Having said that, it is always interesting in Wulf's storyhour when comment goes off into realms of discussion about sneaking vs blindsight, or the problems of certain spell combinations or whatever!

Or discussion about classical and mythological heroes and just precisely what a "hero" is.

 

[Enkhidu]

I've seen a couple instances where "pruning" a story hour is a a technique to make a story hour more readable, but the authors using that technique are mods!

So here's a question for you - would it be out of line to ask a mod to do some directed "pruning" on another story hour?