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[IvanMesniaa]

New Slender Man type story.

[SickSlickMan]

Authors, or PMs I guess they're called, aren't allowed to post their own stories on here.

People'll give you a lot of heat for it.

[IvanMesniaa]

[SticktheFigure]

I believe what Slick was talking about is how you cannot post the link at all. If you want it to be posted on here, you should probably PM the link to someone and ask them to post it.

[IvanMesniaa]

[SticktheFigure]

Feel free to even PM me if you want

[ndemeter]

From what I get from your post this is not a new ARG in the SM mythos, correct? It's more like fan fiction based in a forum. In that case you are welcome to post it here and get reactions and such.

What you are not allowed to do is:

- Post in-character if you are running a game. uF is an OOG zone where players should feel free and protected from any IC repercussions of their posts.

- Post as the PM while your game is actively going on, thus destroying the curtain that allows players to enjoy the experience.

Posting a trailhead for your game is considered bad taste. You can always send it to us and we can post it anonymously for you, allowing the players to fully be in control of the gameplay while you are in the background running things.

Hope that clears things up a bit for you.

[Axcelissearching]

[IvanMesniaa]

[Dray]

*ahem* I'll just get the ball rolling, seeing as how they took the time to PM me with a long note included:

http://0bservati0ns.blogspot.com


To the other players/readers:

Personally, the lack of story-telling in this leaves me uninspired, an the colloquial spelling of things kind of bugs me. Reading it gives me the impression that the author wrote it more as a stream-of-conscious experiment than an attempt to sit down and tell a scary story. I had mentioned to the PM in a private message reply that his latest entry seems quite similar to the latest Everyman Hybrid video, however he replied that he's had the idea since August. Fair enough, I suppose; it's not as though creepypasta stories can only be used by one person to scare others. The timing of this recent post, though, leads me immediately to compare the two attempts to frighten. I think the blog post is definitely lacking.

It just seems to me that, working with a blog, one has to work harder to capture the attention and imagination of slendy-ARG players. Well, that's not true... there have been a few vlogs that haven't seemed to work very well, either. What I suppose I should say is that, in this genre, blogs are very common and players can choose from any that they want. In order to have a successful blog, taking a new angle to the story, making a concentrated attempt to build an interesting character that we're sympathetic to, then building up the tension so that we're frightened for that character, is pretty much a requirement.

Anyways, I'm not sure what to make of this. It doesn't leap out and grab me, yet. What d'you guys think? Anything that could be changed or added to make it better?

[IvanMesniaa]

[Dray]

If it's not going to be audience oriented, then what is it going to be? I'm sorry if that's a strange question, but that was a really odd remark -- if it's not for others, is it for yourself? If it's for yourself, why go with a blog format that's open to everyone? Why not go with a traditional journal that you write in by hand? If, in the end, that turned out to be something that you wanted to share, at least it would be in a format that feels more believable, when put side by side with the many slender-blogs that have gone up in the last couple of months.

Some things to keep in mind for a blog-based story: because new watchers/viewers will come in at the latest entry, not the first, you should consider putting a hook, or something interesting, in each post. That's probably a viable suggestion for youtube posts and the like, as well. That doesn't mean that every entry has to be epic, but if you aren't focusing on what the character is doing, give us a sketch of who they are, what they're like. Make the character somebody who is interesting to read.

Think of a single theme that you want to show throughout the entire story, and stick to that. If you haven't written much before, and are uncertain of how to do it well, there are any number of books out there which are awesome at pointing out the basics. Something that you should probably read, if you're in to making videos and the like, is The Writer's Journey by Christopher Voegler. (I think the latest version is Volume 3?) It's easy to read, lays things out in a way that helps beginners to understand writing, and will give you a foundation for what a story is about. You don't have to stick to it to write a slender!blog, but it may help you in future endeavors that you haven't even come up with, yet.

[IvanMesniaa]

I said I want it to be VERY audience oriented. Or did I miss type?

[IvanMesniaa]