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Sumias
Decorated
Joined: 24 Nov 2010 Posts: 271 Location: MD
Writing matters to me. Good grammar, good punctuation, these things are important to me. One of the things about Rooks, for example, was that it read, to me, like someone who wasn't a 19yr old in college. I guess I'm used to all of the SM stories involving young people. It endeared me to think that the writer might have actually been over the age of 21.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:04 pm
Das Omega
Unfettered
Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 345
5_pak wrote:
Honestly, I think this may be just me, but am I the only one to whom writing STYLE is much less of a concern on the blogs than other things? Content I judge more strictly, but I honestly am not so tight about style as I would be on, say, a novel. Because after all these are blogs. They're not mass published journals.
So unless the writing is actually a barrier to the story (which I have seen, don't get me wrong) I don't have an opinion on the style itself. Only what it says.
I'm the exact opposite. I could have a blog where they claim that Slender Man is actually an incredibly well dressed rhinoceros who just has been dieting lately, and it ends with a dance off between their main character and their totheark clone, but so long as they make it sound good, I would be totally fine with it.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:05 pm
123
Guest
Okay the amount of comment-based shit going on right now is maddeningly bad...I mean...AWFUL. Blargh. /minirant
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:11 pm
Atomyk
Boot
Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 66
123 wrote:
Okay the amount of comment-based shit going on right now is maddeningly bad...I mean...AWFUL. Blargh. /minirant
I never want to see binary ever again.
The comments have become a RolePlaying (And yes, this is different than simply playing along) hub at this point, and it's getting a bit annoying.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:13 pm
123
Guest
Ugh the binary...I regret ever getting my blog involved with this plot device, because it completely screwed me over on a lot of things unless I dramatically pull out from al lfo this...oh well. We'll see where this goes. It's pretty ridiculous right now.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:31 pm
Das Omega
Unfettered
Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 345
123 wrote:
Okay the amount of comment-based shit going on right now is maddeningly bad...I mean...AWFUL. Blargh. /minirant
Yes. A thousand times yes. Having some plot in the comments is fine; they did that for the twist ending of Dreams in Darkness, and that worked out because the reader only had to scroll down a small bit to reach the plot important part.
Having over 100 comments of plot exposition within a single post makes it bloody near impossible for anyone trying to follow the story stay up to date with whatever the hell's going on at the moment.
Seriously, the 23rd was RIDICULOUS.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:48 pm
5_pak
Veteran
Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 110
I'm waiting for people to be brave enough to turn comments off and yet still give the player's means of interacting with the story. Maybe slipping the (fake) email of the supposed blogger or something.
Either way the comments are getting bad. All over the board. I don't even read them in good ones like Seeking Truth.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 1:09 am
awakeasaurusrex
Entrenched
Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 1099
So I take it lots of Slenderblogs threw out a heap of content on the 23rd?
GEE I WONDER WHY THAT WOULD BE. On the one hand, some sly acknowledgement that the series that really kicked the whole Slendy-ARG thing off would have been appropriate and nice. On the other hand, there comes a point where that just turns into trying to ride on MH's popularity yet again .
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:03 am
SolDL
Unfettered
Joined: 21 Oct 2010 Posts: 545
Sorry; what happened on the 23rd?
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:28 am
awakeasaurusrex
Entrenched
Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 1099
MH started back up. This was widely expected due to some twitpics posted to the MH twitter feed.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:33 am
SolDL
Unfettered
Joined: 21 Oct 2010 Posts: 545
Oh, yeah. I saw those.
Eh. >_>;
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:52 am
Ol'Slendy
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Aug 2010 Posts: 342 Location: Where ever Slender Man is.
A lot of the blogs start up and die quickly. One was nowheretohyde. It was terrible. So terrible, in fact, the guy deleted his twitter and youtube.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:06 pm
Mattwan
Entrenched
Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 1149 Location: Rolla, MO
I followed and enjoyed "Dreams in Darkness", "Lack of Lexicon", the one where the guys brother was killed in a house fire and became a Slendy puppet, "Scared" up through the point the kids went on the run, and a couple of others, but I never got into the second- or third-generation blogs.
(Am I the only one who sees a fuzzy boundary between the earlier blogs and the ones that started later? I can't say exactly what it is, but it feels like it's there. I think it has something to do with the scope of the stories. I think that, for me, only deeply personal stories work in blog format. Once a bigger picture becomes the focus, it seems--again, to me--like there's a disconnect between the medium and the message)
I glanced at the Core Theory stuff and quickly looked away. I curse the ghost of Joseph Campbell and all the depredations he wrought on speculative fiction.
So all that's a roundabout way of making another request for a summary of what happened on the 23rd.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:04 pm
DandA
Decorated
Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 275
Mattwan wrote:
I followed and enjoyed "Dreams in Darkness", "Lack of Lexicon", the one where the guys brother was killed in a house fire and became a Slendy puppet, "Scared" up through the point the kids went on the run, and a couple of others, but I never got into the second- or third-generation blogs.
(Am I the only one who sees a fuzzy boundary between the earlier blogs and the ones that started later? I can't say exactly what it is, but it feels like it's there. I think it has something to do with the scope of the stories. I think that, for me, only deeply personal stories work in blog format. Once a bigger picture becomes the focus, it seems--again, to me--like there's a disconnect between the medium and the message)
I glanced at the Core Theory stuff and quickly looked away. I curse the ghost of Joseph Campbell and all the depredations he wrought on speculative fiction.
So all that's a roundabout way of making another request for a summary of what happened on the 23rd.
As mentioned MH came back. There where two tweets essentially letting us know Jay's back then around 12 ish they posted Entry 27.
http://twitter.com/marblehornets
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:12 pm
Mattwan
Entrenched
Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 1149 Location: Rolla, MO
DandA wrote:
Mattwan wrote:
So all that's a roundabout way of making another request for a summary of what happened on the 23rd.
As mentioned MH came back. There where two tweets essentially letting us know Jay's back then around 12 ish they posted Entry 27.
http://twitter.com/marblehornets
Is that all? It sounded like Das Omega was saying there was some massive cross-blog event as well.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:14 pm
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