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JustAQ wrote:
Granted, I'm a fan of "Dreams in Darkness" but did anyone actually believe that bullshit story that it would be turned into a book? It was a good story, a great read, but his writing is not book worthy. The story also wasn't long enough, nor linear enough to prove to a publisher that it should be a novel. I'd believe "Oh Dude, I storyifyed the blog and it's being published in Weird Tales!" but not the bit about it being a book.

All that said, I like the concept, the short fiction at the beginning is alright, the writing in the entries is good enough and I think it's going somewhere. I'll probably keep track of this one for a bit.


Now I far too heterosexual to read, but if I could I would have been so pumped to have bought it.
Now to go deadlift some lady-folk.

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JustAQ wrote:
ETA: I also think it speaks to our current culture with the "BLARG! BLOGS ARE BORING! VLOGS ONLY!" sentiment. Can't being yourself to read anything because the story isn't "in your face" enough to make keep your overstimulated mind hooked.

Personally, I like blogs better. They're easier to serialize because editing can usually be done quickly and painlessly, with nothing more than an open-source word processor. No fancy equipment is needed, except a computer and if you give a shit about Slender Man I'm sure you have access to one, thus it's open to a much broader group to create. And, of course, it's much easier to avoid the dreaded 6 minute chunk of footage-of-the-ground-while-walking segments that seem to plague vlogs.


I know, right? Reading those comments made me eyeroll a lot. And wonder how old the posters are and if they've ever read a book that wasn't required for school. IMAGINATION. SO HARD.

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Uniquename wrote:
Blogs are fucking gay anyway, nothing happens in them. Vlogs are 20% cooler. There's nothing scary about blogs AT ALL. Nobody that is straight actually cares about this dilemma.


Pardon if there are actually people who are literate and like reading :/ Vlogs aren't everything and there are more things happening in the blogs than the vlogs (not saying that I like one over the other or trying to be bias because I have a blog, both have pros and cons that I'd not like to go into right now)

There are good and bad blogs AND vlogs, do some research next time you open your mouth and spout out. There are good reads and watches, and it's easier to fuck up a vlog than it is a blog, from what I've seen.

/rant

And, about the blog, I'm watching it to see what happens, too, but I'm still unsure what to think about this whole situation...

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 		Really, I thought Uniquename was joking when he posted that. Come on, the line, "Nobody that is straight actually cares about this dilemma" was so wackadoo and is a call-back to his earlier gay comment. If he/she was serious, uniquename would have backed up his/her assumptions more.

In terms of the blog itself, I really like the concept he's doing. It attempts to shove someone in-game in an out-of-game environment. Very good.

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maychorian wrote:
JustAQ wrote:
ETA: I also think it speaks to our current culture with the "BLARG! BLOGS ARE BORING! VLOGS ONLY!" sentiment. Can't being yourself to read anything because the story isn't "in your face" enough to make keep your overstimulated mind hooked.

Personally, I like blogs better. They're easier to serialize because editing can usually be done quickly and painlessly, with nothing more than an open-source word processor. No fancy equipment is needed, except a computer and if you give a shit about Slender Man I'm sure you have access to one, thus it's open to a much broader group to create. And, of course, it's much easier to avoid the dreaded 6 minute chunk of footage-of-the-ground-while-walking segments that seem to plague vlogs.


I know, right? Reading those comments made me eyeroll a lot. And wonder how old the posters are and if they've ever read a book that wasn't required for school. IMAGINATION. SO HARD.


I've been unable to get into any of the blogs because I'm an avid reader.

When I read blogs, I'm not looking for a good writer but for a good storyteller. I'm looking for that feeling of a conversation at the kitchen table, a sort of informality as they make a boring Saturday sound hilarious or a run-in with neighbors more exciting than it probably was. The appeal of blogs is the immediacy and intimacy, and that's what should make them an ideal vehicle for slenderstories.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a blog yet that retains that immediacy and intimacy when Things Start Happening--they either try to replicate the vlogs in written form (garbled text and and "OMG how'd that get there!" and similar things that look silly in print) or they switch out of storyteller mode and into story writer mode. Example:
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"Don't move. Don't even fucking think about moving or I will cut you," He growled, pushing the cold metal into my skin. I couldn't see anything in my pitch black room, but I don't think he was even looking at me.
"I bet you thought you were out of the woods. I bet you thought you'd just get to go on with your life. Wrong wrong wrong. I can't let you out of the woods. You have to die there, your body on the ground with all your loved ones. You don't get a life. Not after what you did to Harry."

This is not storytelling. This is story writing. Whatever led into it, as a reader I'm jarred, because as an avid reader, I read different story formats differently--blogs are a conversation, short stories are vignettes, novels ask you to linger, etc. They're writing differently, so I'm reading differently, and things that work in a blog don't work in a short story--too much telling, not enough showing, too many adjectives, not enough editing, and so on. Short stories are not informal and immediate, so as a reader, I've been asked to hang on here in the kitchen while the author takes a call in the hallway.

Basically, I just haven't yet found a blog that manages to stay bloggish while getting creepy. If I want to read creepypasta, there's more and better out there without suffering a blog/pasta hybrid.

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 		I don't want to fullquote, so: what mokie said.

I enjoyed DiD, and I enjoy Deja-vu, but it's not a blog that really gets me. It's like reading (good) creepypasta on a creepypasta-site. You know it'll be scary, and you'll feel uneasy while reading it, but you know it's just a story, and after closing your browser, it doesn't affect you anymore. At leats that's how it works for me.

I'm just pointing to "Seeking Truth" and its famous "drunk" blogpost to hint at what I think is good writing in a blog. Realistic writing. "OMGOMGHE'STHEREOMGHELPME!" isn't, and neither is "He growled, pushing the cold metal into my skin."

Back to topic, though. As I said, I do enjoy Déja-vu Dreaming, but what irks me is.. the overall concept I think. The "It's not a story, no it's not!!", and the subtle-as-a-sledgehammer foreshadowing.
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 		I like blogs better specially the ones who know how to write. I've yet to see a vlog that has convinced me of anything with their acting.

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mokie wrote:
I've been unable to get into any of the blogs because I'm an avid reader.

When I read blogs, I'm not looking for a good writer but for a good storyteller. I'm looking for that feeling of a conversation at the kitchen table, a sort of informality as they make a boring Saturday sound hilarious or a run-in with neighbors more exciting than it probably was. The appeal of blogs is the immediacy and intimacy, and that's what should make them an ideal vehicle for slenderstories.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a blog yet that retains that immediacy and intimacy when Things Start Happening--they either try to replicate the vlogs in written form (garbled text and and "OMG how'd that get there!" and similar things that look silly in print) or they switch out of storyteller mode and into story writer mode.


Okay, I get what you're saying. It's true that I have yet to read a blog that actually scares me or does more than creep me out a little. I think that's mostly because it's impossible to be afraid for the narrator's life when you know they must have made it back somehow to make this post.

I appreciate blogs for good writing and interesting characters, though. And of the few I've read, they've been quite interesting and clever. I guess I most object to the idea that "nothing ever happens in blogs." Oh, and also the sophomoric insult. Rolling Eyes

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 		The thing that intrigues me most about this one is that the MaleOrderMan blog has been going since October. That's intense. This guy was planning this turn of events out since the time I first found out about Slendy.

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Lewa wrote:
The thing that intrigues me most about this one is that the MaleOrderMan blog has been going since October. That's intense. This guy was planning this turn of events out since the time I first found out about Slendy.


Yeah...that gives him about a month between DiD and MOM. I wonder if he planned this out while he was still writing DiD.

Unless, of course, it's real. Which seems a bit unlikely at this point.

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maychorian wrote:
I appreciate blogs for good writing and interesting characters, though. And of the few I've read, they've been quite interesting and clever. I guess I most object to the idea that "nothing ever happens in blogs." Oh, and also the sophomoric insult. Rolling Eyes


Yeah, I was mostly wobbling my lip at the "no imagination" remark myself. Very Happy

I like reading discussions about the blogs for just those reasons--they do come up with interesting and clever ideas that affect subsequent stories. That's what keeps me going back and hoping that the next leap will be the leap home. Or summink.

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 		Male order man makes references to seeing men with no faces and tentacles when he smokes weed, So i think that he might be crazy or might be getting stalked.

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 		Um.


Erm.

Eh...check the comments on the latest post.

This, um...this changes things a little bit.

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 		Ohhhhh god.

That made my head hurt. XD
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 		So plagiarism, lieing, cheating, and stealing from the dead are bad now?

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