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The Scythe
Feb 7, 2018, 4:28:29 AM2/7/18
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This is what I sent to Cathy, who kept it alive for a lot of years. She's going to get in touch with the other founders.
Ok, here goes:
Let's plan an Alt.Dragons-Inn Reunion! Robert Carroll and the three other active writers want to "Get The Band Back Together" To start with though, let's just get together and have a party at the Dragons Inn.
It would have two parts:
1. The In-character party
2. The Real Life business meeting. (Chat based, most likely)
3. If people are interested, start a story or two.
I want to be able to determine the destiny of this place, and make a plan. Even if that means closing up shop here and moving to Dragonsmark. It would be fun to get Montfort and Ifrean going again, of course, and that's what the other writers would like. Not knowing the people In Real Life has kept me from ever doing much about that.
There are some other active Dragons-Inn successor sites. The most successful is www.Dragonsmark.com, that came from the AOL version. They have some things going for them that have kept them a living community while the other ones have mostly died out.
#1: Live chat
It let's you have real-time conversations, that a lot of people then post to their story thread. Without that the characters tak about each other, but not TO each other.
#2: Using pictures gathered from online to depict people's characters on their profile, that you can see while in the Live Chat so you can tell a lot about who you're talking to.
#3: A large group of admins that share the effort of running the place, with automated emails to them from the site.
#4: A guy like Dave Womack who owns the site
The current story at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.dragons-inn is mine. [A Frozen Vesper]
Here are some techniques that I've developed in the last few years. This is what has kept us running solid for just over a year. We've passed the story climax and are close to wrapping it up.
#5: Get all the cell phone numbers of the other writers. When things bog down we text each other. This keeps writers from "falling off the map" and killing a story just because people get busy.
#6: Run the story in sections I call Acts and Beats. The Acts are just like in a play, beginning, middle, and end. The Beats are the posting cycle. I'm running it, so when I post the "Bad Guys" and my characters, I advance the story to the next Beat. Then we try to give everyone a chance to post their actions before the next Beat.
#7: A Cover page. Books catch people's interest with Pictures
#8: When the person running it loses their animo, do something, ANYTHING to get the enthusiasm back and get going again. I've made the cover page, I've looked up pictures to represent the characters, anything.
Ok, here goes:
Let's plan an Alt.Dragons-Inn Reunion! Robert Carroll and the three other active writers want to "Get The Band Back Together" To start with though, let's just get together and have a party at the Dragons Inn.
It would have two parts:
1. The In-character party
2. The Real Life business meeting. (Chat based, most likely)
3. If people are interested, start a story or two.
I want to be able to determine the destiny of this place, and make a plan. Even if that means closing up shop here and moving to Dragonsmark. It would be fun to get Montfort and Ifrean going again, of course, and that's what the other writers would like. Not knowing the people In Real Life has kept me from ever doing much about that.
There are some other active Dragons-Inn successor sites. The most successful is www.Dragonsmark.com, that came from the AOL version. They have some things going for them that have kept them a living community while the other ones have mostly died out.
#1: Live chat
It let's you have real-time conversations, that a lot of people then post to their story thread. Without that the characters tak about each other, but not TO each other.
#2: Using pictures gathered from online to depict people's characters on their profile, that you can see while in the Live Chat so you can tell a lot about who you're talking to.
#3: A large group of admins that share the effort of running the place, with automated emails to them from the site.
#4: A guy like Dave Womack who owns the site
The current story at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.dragons-inn is mine. [A Frozen Vesper]
Here are some techniques that I've developed in the last few years. This is what has kept us running solid for just over a year. We've passed the story climax and are close to wrapping it up.
#5: Get all the cell phone numbers of the other writers. When things bog down we text each other. This keeps writers from "falling off the map" and killing a story just because people get busy.
#6: Run the story in sections I call Acts and Beats. The Acts are just like in a play, beginning, middle, and end. The Beats are the posting cycle. I'm running it, so when I post the "Bad Guys" and my characters, I advance the story to the next Beat. Then we try to give everyone a chance to post their actions before the next Beat.
#7: A Cover page. Books catch people's interest with Pictures
#8: When the person running it loses their animo, do something, ANYTHING to get the enthusiasm back and get going again. I've made the cover page, I've looked up pictures to represent the characters, anything.
The Scythe
Feb 21, 2018, 1:21:39 AM2/21/18
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So she's reached out to all her crowd that used to write here, and it sounds like Dave Womack might be redoing his website.
She also said that there is some interest in doing a reunion. So I'm just going to get things started, and we'll see what happens.
Robert
She also said that there is some interest in doing a reunion. So I'm just going to get things started, and we'll see what happens.
Robert
Cathy Mosley
Feb 26, 2018, 1:47:25 AM2/26/18
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I am taking a moment to pop in. Robert has been kind enough to contact me about a Dragon's Inn reunion, which I think is a lovely idea. I have passed word along to those I have stayed in touch with; including Dave Womack.
I have passed along the link to the group, but so far all I have heard is that people like the idea. The current situation is that several are professors, one old member is in the middle of moving, and one is a very busy lawyer. In my case I am now a business owner, and in business as a social media specialist, and in Dave's case he is recuperating from a major illness and is getting ready to return to work.
So for the old-timers the reunion will be a bit slow. I have been working with Dave on a new website, since I also do some web design.
We all loved the Dragon's Inn, and many great pieces of writing came out of it. The challenge is framing out time to be creative.
Will catch you soon.
Sincerely,
Cathy
Janis Nixon
Feb 26, 2018, 3:29:00 PM2/26/18
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Hi there! I started writing on Dragon's Inn pretty close to the time it folded. I would be interested in starting up again with a few new and unusual characters.
Please keep me posted.
Thank you,
JNixon
brcar...@gmail.com
Mar 2, 2018, 9:47:13 AM3/2/18
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!!
What a great thing to have you guys post again!
The next thing you should do is post in one of the [Open] Threads. In [Thief] I'm looking for people for Renik to steal from. In [Reunion/Inn/Open] Hugh and Judy are back and the Inn is going to get lighted and and cleaned up. In [Worldbuilders] please post and pick a theme for your characters to stay connected down through the generations.
-Troshen
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