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Okay, here's my two bits :
I don't think giving everybody a key to the blogs is a wise idea.
First off, having an open door will allow "trollish" behaviour (gawd, I'm coming to hate that label)or less serious folk, who may "goof" with the project - taking it in other directions then it was intended.
(Jokey entries etc.) Second, with multiple people blogging I don't think you will be able to maintain "a voice" (or at least, it will be harder to achieve) and the blog may come off as "schizophrenic" or blatently apperant that more then one person is making entries on the blog. (Although, the "schizophrenic" effect won't neccesarily be a bad thing once the shit hits the fan.)
What appeals to me about the project is the idea of suckering the unawares surfer into believing the blogs are real -- thus hooking them for the hell ride ahead. So I think you folks should take the utmost care and attention, at the start, in order to make the project believable.
My suggestion is that each blog has it's own "editor" or "director". Then we start another thread here where we can all enter in random blog entries -- creating a compost pile or deposit from which the "editor" can freely pick entries from - in accordance to whatever events line or story line we come up with.
That way, all entries are filtered through one or two people -- thus maintaining voice (the editors slanting our entries as they will to suit the overall story)and also avoiding "debate/updating" lag -- re: everything (however wild or silly) sitting in a thread, ready and waiting to go up on the 'blogs.
Start out with 'control' in the hands of only a few people, who can thusly maintain believability (or consistancy) when it's needed, and then when things get kooky (hopefully, by then the project is finally able to stand on it's own two feet), thats when you open the doors and let us crazies have more control.
As all ways, just my opinion.
Okay.
Now.
We have this odd ball character Arthur, working his shit job, killing insects and sperlunking in odd and spooky places. He's gotta meet the girl.
(WHAT IF -- it's Minty (is that really the name we have decided on? ) that gets Arthur involved with the occult. Perhaps she drags him into a sex cult or an underground club that is (eventually revealed as) HQ for a radical cyberpunky coven involved with revoluntionary politics while serving the Dark Ones From Beyond Time. CYBER COVEN anyone??? Maybe we could get the folks in the magick forum involved. Does Arthur or Minty ever post here in 'lith land?)
(damn, ever since you started this thread Zoom, the idea of a "haunted webpage" has been going through my head -- but I think that's something all together different from what we got going here)
(WHAT IF - Arthur starts out as a mild stalker, Minty is his obsession. He keeps seeing her around and she always takes his breath away. What does she do again? Maybe he hangs out at her work place -- that hip cafe in the hood -- or around her favorite hang outs, anything for that chance meeting. Maybe learns where she lives and starts taking walks through her neighborhood.(Maybe after one of his night time adventures sperlunking the sewers...) He's all swoony and in love even before actually meeting her. (It could be the thru line , along with his hobbies, for the first part of his blog.) Then BANG - when he least expects it, their worlds collide -- literally, smash into each other coming around a corner. She's off to a club or something and drags him along. They have a great time. The next day his blog entry is all gushy about the wild night they experienced while hers is more simple. "Met an interesting guy last night, Arthur, went to (where ever). I think I'm going to call him tonight."
I wouldn't link their blogs until they finally get something going on.)
Perhaps it looks something like this :
a month of Arthur and Minty doing their thing (while only hinting at the dark stuff that is going to happen/maybe some weird dreams for both of them/ oddly synochratic (??? is that a word??? both of them experience the same dream motifs) - Arthur obsessing/Minty partying her ass off (spunky chick but with edge--major edge- freaky -- her name is growing on me), followed by another month of relationship development/now bringing the weirdness into the light (strange encounters/odd discoveries etc.) then month three the actual story begins ...
... or is that too much development??
Well, I've gone on long enough. A post of this length, I think I'm involved now. (If you folks will have me.) Let's rock and roll.
By the way Zoom, have you posted the address to Arthur's blog?? If you did, I missed it when I re-scanned the thread. I'm gonna take another look.
NG
P.S.
WHAT IF Minty is actually A Thing From Beyond Time ... heh heh, my wheeels are spinning. We need monsters, kids. (Who?What?Where?When?)
Maybe we should start character bio threads for Art & Minty so we can figure out who exactly our characters are ... and keep this one for our debating, notes and story development.
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