I've had this idea for a few months now and I ain't letting writer's block stop me now!
being the new year and being at the threshhold of 1000 posts (not that it really means anything but it's symbolic ya know?) so I decided that I wanted to have a few resolutions for, oh I don't know maybe the next thousand or so.
gee, it's already been a thousand posts and it hasn't even been a year yet, I joined in late march didn't I? yeah, I did. since then I think I've changed a bit. I still remember my first post, it would have probably been a poll if I knew anything about making polls back then. oh, by the way, it's to my first post that my signiture refers to. (and I intend to keep it there for as long as the sig is still true)
first off I have a confession though, when I was just starting on the forums I was of the persuasion that society was a relatively evil thing. virtually every time I was exposed to a large/medium large group of people it always seemed to turn out bad to me and it made me quite reclusive. my mom told me I needed to get out more and I hated the idea. what was worse was that I knew what she said was true but I didn't know how.
you could probably guess what I'm going to say next. I joined the forums. while I can't say it's been nothing but caviar and ice cream (I wish) it has been very much a very positive experiance which constantly contends with my lack of faith in mankind. (I believe in God just finE, it's man I have a hard time believing in
). I still have a problem with political debates but if that's the worst that happens around here it's as good as gold IMO.on a different topic in July I had an idea that I never really told anyone about but I kept it for a while. the origional idea was sort of a spin off of Astral's RP. it started with a question "what if we could vote for a few forumites to get sent to the questor universe to go on some adventure the rest of us decide to set up for them" while I never totally abandoned this idea it never left the inside of my head (I might have mentioned it to my mom (my brothers wouldn't have cared anyway) but that's about it)
as with most ideas that you like but haven't done anything with (especially when your imagination demands something to think about constantly) this one grew and changed as it simmered on the back burners. now it formed into a fanfiction basically it follows a similar theme to the question described.
unfortunately, writing something in code and writing it in a word processor are two different things (mostly becase I like typing the code in manually). I have kept up with the origional theme of the story and allowed some people to help me (the criteria of who I let help me was simply "if they want to help let them". well that and I posted the info about in on DevArt so as to keep it's existance to some of a surprize) and help I needed too. having the characters as they were meant I needed backgrounds on all of them deep enough so that no one character dominates all of the spotlight or history or flashbacks or action or such (despite one of the characters being mine). I am very gratefull for the help I've gotten thus far and hope to recieve further help as the story progresses.
this that I present is one of the shortest chapters I have planned as it covers simultaneously the same event for four different people who I go through rather quickly but I think it does ok for an introduction chapter.
if you can't tell I wish there was a "nervous as can be" or a "scared stupid" emoticon available because that's how I feel about this, especially this first chapter which was worse before I went back to it. (so much worse I at first didn't even think I'd end up including it at all)
ok, so what's next, oh wait, the link!
the first chapter is located
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/shyal_malkes/b ... ">HERE!</a>
and now on to the resolutions part of this post.
please keep in mind that as I write and list these things that there are some directed to specific people who are the ONLY people allowed to vote for that particular option (so far I haven't thought of one yet that isn't just there to be funny anyway so don't take these too seriously)
also some of these may seem like I think there's something wrong with me but keep in mind it's a resolution poll, it's purpose is to find what's wrong and fix it...
I still need to go over the fine print of that thing, especially the part about "severence pacakages" near the end....