Next MotW Writer

[AinuLainour]

Hello. My name is Ian (or, if you prefer, Ainu), and for about a year I wrote a series of articles on my favourite figure submitted to CMoN from the past week.

Recently, I stopped writing and tried holding a contest to see who would take a shot at their own MotW articles. Initially, there seemed to be interest, but once the contest began there were literally no entries. Instead of leaving it be, I\'d like users to nominate either themselves or other members and I will put them in an official poll. The poll here is simply here because I jumped the gun.

Ian

 

[Undave]

I don\'t get it. Why the need for a poll or competition? If someone wanted to write the article why couldn\'t they just do it? Do you need special permissions to post it or something?

 

[AinuLainour]

There was more than one person interested.

 

[mickc22]

Ian,
that doesn\'t really matter does it?
If people want to write it, whether there\'s 2 people or 10 doing a mini of the week article, things would balance out eventually, either with praise for their literary prose, or with ridicule for their clueless rhetoric
(no I don\'t have the time

It\'s not like there\'s a legacy to be left or torch to be passed to future generations

It was just something you liked to do and we liked to read

 

[PegaZus]

One way may be to just collect as many entries as there are, and just post the one that is best. Could always get a backlog of entries ready, much like the comic industry. Just a suggestion.

 

[Torn blue sky]

I\'d just be like \"Ohh thats nice\" (pic)

Eventually it\'d move on to other things like ladies and badgers, whare would we be then???

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Torn blue sky


Eventually it\'d move on to other things like ladies and badgers, whare would we be then???

laughing our arses off?

 

[Highbulp Billy]

Originally posted by Torn blue sky
I\'d just be like \"Ohh thats nice\" (pic)

Eventually it\'d move on to other things like ladies and badgers, whare would we be then???

Badgering ladies!

...we do have standards to maintain round here, they\'re just not very high ones.

 

[lono]

I think that the best way to go about this would be to just throw it open and say that anyone who wants to do an article should just do one and put it online. All the talk of polls, competitions etc is pretty unnecessary to tell the truth.

I don\'t want to sound insulting to you here, because you put in some real effort and definately got much better as you went along, but it\'s not exactly like you had any special qualifications or particularly great article writing technique when you began doing MoTW, and nor did you have any particular special permission.

Try and make it sound like a fun thing to do. I imagine you got some enjoyment from it, otherwise why would you have continued. All the talk of competitions and polls is probably making it sound too much like hard work.

 

[AinuLainour]

You want fun?

72 virgins for the next MotW writer!!

Though I liked the idea of having someone committed to it, or a group of people. Having an inconsistency with weekly articles is one of my fears with this and I recognize that this is partly because I was terribly inconsistent.

Buuuut sure, if someone is interested in putting something out, I don\'t know what you\'re waiting for!

 

[uberdark]

Originally posted by AinuLainour
72 virgins for the next MotW writer!!

Though I liked the idea of having someone committed to it, or a group of people. Having an inconsistency with weekly articles is one of my fears with this and I recognize that this is partly because I was terribly inconsistent.

Buuuut sure, if someone is interested in putting something out, I don\'t know what you\'re waiting for!

hey now those virgins are vikes!!!! he got them over at the cafe du\' freak.

and he\'s made it through 67 at last count.... you can have the leftovers.

hehe.

 

[supervike]

No no...you misunderstood me!!!

I said I got through 6 OR 7....

now, I\'m just too worn out....