Daddies story tellin\' hour ...

Well, not really an hour ...

Alrighty, as some of you may know (not many I\'m sure), I used to write quite a bit when I was younger and that continued up until about a year ago when I had sort of a \'block and burn out\' situation going. Family, work, life ... stress. Just didn\'t contribute to helping me along.

I used to be a real \'role playing geek\' back in the day and thus I used to write D&D articles and fluff and I\'ve had a thing or two show up in Polyhedron and Dragon magazines as well as a few other lesser known publications, online and off.

Well, I\'ve gotten out of gaming, but I still love a good story and recently I have started to get interested in writing again. Nothing fancy, nothing too long, but something that will keep me entertained and hopefully some of ya\'ll.

So my question, direction and whatever else you want to call it is, would ya\'ll be interested in a bit of a \'story tellers\' section, something you can get creative in as well as an aside from painting miniatures and overall just something to distract you in your daily grind and your forum surfing?

I was thinking about posting a couple of stories, older ones initially, to see what ya\'ll thought, and then continue and write up and post a few that have been on my mind of late which several of you have helped me dream up while chatting with me or by providing inspiration while viewing your miniatures.

Something I was also playing around with, was sort of a \'choose your own adventure\' scenario where I would write up an initial post and along with it add a poll and after a week, which ever decision had the most votes would decide in which direction I took the story. Kind of a free form situation and it seemed like something that could get interesting and certainly help me with my creativity once again.

Something that sounds of interest or should I find another outlet to put this? Not going to be hurt in the least if this isn\'t where I find the outlet.
 

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Staff member
While I am not intending to throw a damp towel int your endeavours, could I suggest that this might be better if it was hosted by yourself and not on CMON.
The bandwidth must be getting pretty heavily hit as it is. Reading large amounts of text can only slow things down even more.

It\'s nice to hear of someone getting back to writing after a spell off, good luck and I look forward to seeing your work.
 

Klute

New member
Dear me Mike you have got the humbugs.:D
How can something like that hit bandwidth when there is nothing said about threads on posting your picture and others using loads of image postings.Now that is a sincere question btw and not just grumble.

I think its a fantastic idea,even if you post a chapter every now and again.The poll vote thing would be great.
Even if you do it somewhere else then I am sure plenty of us will still be interested.
Good Luck.
 

TAB Studio

New member
I am so glad the influence here helped un damn your writers block. I have read your work and am aware what a great writer you are and am thrilled you will be back in the creative mold. If not here.I have the poor, lonely :|~ forum that is looking for direction...plenty of paid for bandwith that is unused. With the RR and calender there I offer the forum for your use. It can be adapted to suit you and others need maybe you could also help other GM\'s(my hubby for one) that are in need of a spark and someone that shares the knowledge to help them plan. No matter what platform you choose I will be an avid reader.
 

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
We did a sort of DIY adventure (search Matt Varnish) but it kinda died mid adventure. (go back and add a chapter there.)
 

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Staff member
Originally posted by Klute
Dear me Mike you have got the humbugs.:D
How can something like that hit bandwidth when there is nothing said about threads on posting your picture and others using loads of image postings. Now that is a sincere question btw and not just grumble.

I know it reads as If I was being Down and a right old \'Misso\' on the suggestion but I was writing that at work, which has a 4Gb Feed, supporting all the schools in the areas. Even with the schools being off, the speed of CMON was terrible. I\'m concerned that the impact on feed, reading large volumes of text from a site which has a Huge Audience, will not be a good idea. (Particularly for Dial-Up users)

At work I\'ve been trying to read a Windows XP Service Pack 2 document from Microsoft Tech Support (Can\'t capture it as it has active links in it) and that keeps \'timing out\' on me. Just think of the bandwidth Microsoft has. (It also says a lot about the amount of people reading it as well ;) )

I totally support FF\'s return to writing as I also sometimes attempt to \'pen\' a tale. However, I do think that there are other forums/venue\'s available (Elfwood for one) that might be better suited to this endeavour, than Coolminiornot.

I have had a number of people asking me about the speed of CMON at weekends, loading up images and accessing the forums, when there is a large amount of images awaiting approval.

All I\'m saying is you don\'t overload your backpack when you\'ve a 1000 miles to walk.
 

Klute

New member
Well I do know that cmon is probably the slowest site I have access to,just dont have the technical knowledge to know why.
Sounds to me like Tab has the answer to the problem.
Make sure there is a heads up when it goes ahead.
Im off to pinch some pressies from under the tree.
 
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