| Writing something by yourself does not apply here. Nothing here is written 'by yourself'. The place on this board for single-author writings is over in the 'Art, Literature, Whatever the Additive is Today' forum. You can't ignore that everything being written here has multiple authors and thus, in all likelihood, multiple directions people will be trying to take it. My point is that this is not just a cooperative thing. No, it also isn't just a competitive thing, but it is not just a cooperative thing either. Yes, it is easier to do exploratory writing towards a fixed goal *when you are the only writer*, or when *all the writers agree entirely on where things should be going*.
This being a combat forum, and thus having things like the Tournament of Red Lions, which if I recall you *yourself* organized, it is by its nature involved in competition. The competition should be friendly competition, but it's still competition.
Shadow_Kirby, you have some good points. I don't mean that we should be mixing the planet-crackers with the people who can barely lift an anvil, but having that rule encourages the frame of mind that anything one character can do, so can another, regardless of the natures of the characters. That, combined with the eternal one-upmanship, is the source of a lot of problems around here. We really need to, if not completely remove that rule, at least relax it considerably, so that we can have fights of the human versus the slightly or moderately superhuman. Literature and storytelling is *full* of underdog fights. Raw power is *not* the only way to win, but around here it's being treated as such, and that's not right. The 'autohit' method of writing only contributes to this problem, which is why I post the way I usually do in battles.
Shadow_Kirby, you are one of mighty few exceptions, it's fairly clear that you're trying to at least write comprehensibly (and I get the impression that you're trying to write as best you can).
Tazy, you need, very badly, to stop indiscriminately tossing the term 'N00b' around. Perhaps you missed it all the times I mentioned it in other threads and places, but being a newbie does not make you a 'N00b', any more than being uneducated about something makes you an idiot. The way you throw it around is making *you* look pretty dumb. And I'm pretty sure you're at least not that dumb. |