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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 12, 2008 4:31:34 GMT -5
You do remember he KDJT, the Zipp tourmament, and the naar-stuff, right?  And reading Sam's worst creatures of D&D link earlier, I think we can come up with some great positive spawn to combat the growing darkness Duck rabbit anyone? |
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 12, 2008 11:53:28 GMT -5
When you're summarising your own work, it stands to reason that it's very difficult to be objective about it and I think the summaries generally tend to be far too long containing loads of story detail that will be irrelevant to someone just trying to get a quick start-up before reading the next chapter. When it comes to WW summaries though, this is neither avoidable - 'cause you could hardly expect anyone else to go back over your story for you (though that's what BC used to do before everything got too long-winded) - nor is it much of a problem. Sorry for being late on this, but I don't really have as much time to spend on the web as I used to in the past years. Talking about long summaries and how I used to do them myself before... Well, 4 years ago (already?!?), I was a simple student going to the university to try to become a journalist (which I am now). I had time to make the summaries myself: when the chapter was arriving at page 9, I was revisiting each pages of the chapter, one at the time, reading each single post, and summarizing what was important in each post. I was then writing this summary in a Word document, adding sentence after sentence with each post. However, as a wannabe journalist, there is one thing that is important: take only the important facts! When I write a text about an event, I have to be precise and concise. If the speaker at a press conference spills his coffee on the floor while talking, I won't put that detail in my text. It's not important. Same thing goes for the WW summaries: usually, one post of the chapter can be summarize in only one sentence IF there are important things in it. Otherwise, I wasn't writing a summary of the said post. Of course, I couldn't know that some "important" facts weren't really important for the next chapter or that some ignored facts were going to be important. When I was writing myself the summaries, the text was from 2 to 3 and a half pages long in the Word document (I've just checked with the SsF posted in this forum). Now, since people are writing their own summaries, the SsF are 4 or 5 pages long in the Word document (font: verdana, size: 10). I must admit that myself I've been writing a summary that is maybe too long for my own story arc. I need to stick to my principles. Now, I don't have time to do what I was doing back in the old days: I'm working, I don't have internet at home, and I don't go to my parents home every weekend (from where I'm currently writing this post). So yeah, all that to say that Beo shouldn't be doing all what he is currently doing and that people should do their part, like writing a concise and precise summary for their character. @beo: I've just noticed that, in the SsF thread, the summaries for Chapters 7 and 8 are the same! Oh, and I'll make some modification to the Chapter 16 thread. |
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 12, 2008 12:10:58 GMT -5
Oops!
Thats the trouble, chapter summaries are from the start of the next chapter...I got confused at 6/7 and corrected it - guess I missed it on the next one!
A thing I realised is that the chapter summaries actually have two functions just now - one is to summarise the previous chapter, the other is to provde a 'story so far...' for people to quickly jump into your plotline that chapter
So for example, my chapter 17 'story so far...' could be two sentences for Beowuuf, and a paragraph for the side stories arcing along in parallel ready to pounce on him (Eshanr and Duman). Meanwhile my chapter 16 summary, concise as I tried to make it (come on, three unrelated plotlines mashed together along with the NPC enemy's parallel movements) doesn't really hold any value to chapter 17 and is long.
However, if I did the best 'story of...' summary then there would not be enough information to get a flavour of the now lost chapter 16 storyline.
So should we still aim to do chapter summaries as initial WW posts anymore, or should we ask for a summary and also a 'story so far...' ?
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Post by Simey on Apr 13, 2008 18:03:18 GMT -5
;D Sorry! I did give Beowuuf rather too long to get away with all that nonsense going on - probably not the instant door being thrown open you were looking for! @bc: Those are pretty good excuses for your not writing the SsFs any more! With the typical length of WW posts these days, asking anyone to re-read and summarise even a page, let alone a whole chapter would be very unreasonable. Though BC's what-will-happen-next? paragraphs at the end of each SsF have always been brilliant! Here's hoping that they might continue at least!  |
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 14, 2008 1:09:30 GMT -5
I'm sorry I was correcting a mistake in my previous entry..umm, I mean retracting a bold but confusing choice of where Lady Hazelae might shop... and missed your post untl I spotted it in the last post info of the forum! I hope it makes sense as I typed it before going to bed. It certainly throws it back to you and WF And I liked your entry, I have no idea what it means for Simey but it's a great little beat,and more read for Armadalus to thing you are a total fruitcake! Bah, story so far is easy. "Stuff happened, people died unless they didn't, Magnamund knights' council rules all, Eshnar's still going I mean sweet Kai guys let it go already, somene evil did something evil that will maean evil stuff happens.' Job done Incase no one realises it though, since I think there has been some confusion - ESHNAR IS IN THE PAST! WE'RE RETROACTIVELY ENDING IT! DON'T BE FRIGHTENED. Umm, you know, even though you probably still should be |
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Post by Izziel Darkblade on Apr 14, 2008 7:50:20 GMT -5
Okay, for the third time, I'm, really, really sorry that I haven't posted my stuff yet.  I was planning to do this during the weekend but my son had to rush to the hospital (he got his fingers stuck in a door, but everything's alright now, thank God), and as you can imagine, I had no chance to sit in front of the computer. Soooo, I'll try to do this tonight... WF |
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 14, 2008 7:52:15 GMT -5
Nothing worse than forcing it, and kids come first! But hey, if you are in the mood, and have the time - love to see your next post!
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 14, 2008 12:32:15 GMT -5
Though BC's what-will-happen-next? paragraphs at the end of each SsF have always been brilliant! Here's hoping that they might continue at least! Oh, don't worry, I can still do them when I put all the summaries together. What I need is the actual summaries. Come on people! Post your summaries of Chapter 16 even if you don't remember what you did exactly! |
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Post by wildhorse on Apr 16, 2008 7:52:47 GMT -5
I put up mine...and to be frank...i lost the names of the Baron of Anskavern and the shipwright...omg
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Post by Agrarvyn on Apr 16, 2008 19:39:03 GMT -5
So how did Eshnar end, you know, just for the record?
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Post by Maerin on Apr 16, 2008 21:07:31 GMT -5
"This is the song that never ends, It goes on and on, my friends....." |
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 16, 2008 23:57:51 GMT -5
No one knows how Eshnar ends (character-wise), flashbacks provide clues, maybe it will be revealed sooner or later
There is still a yellow shielded area around Eshnar, but there isn't anything breaking out killing people, so it must be safe...it must. Right?
I mean Zipp, Simey and WiseFox escaped. Somehow. That they can't remember about.
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Post by zipp on Apr 17, 2008 18:01:34 GMT -5
I'll be joining back in after the tournament (in fact, I plan for the ending of the tournament to be my first post in the WW). I'm not going to solve Eshnar yet for anyone, though I do know how it ends ;D but instead will be moving on to the next plot, which should culminate in some kind of final resolution of the entire Zipp saga, and the blood plague.
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Post by Simey on Apr 18, 2008 7:04:22 GMT -5
but instead will be moving on to the next plot, which should culminate in some kind of final resolution of the entire Zipp saga, and the blood plague. Oooooooooooooooooooooh - looking forward to that! Here's wishing that Slavemaster might suddenly return, 'cause he was playing such an awesome role in the whole Blood Plague storyline too. Why did he have to go and get himself hooked on WoW?  Zipp - I don't suppose you've got Slavemaster's 'Story of....' saved, have you? And I'm hoping you still have yours....? Regarding Eshnar: I rather think that us lot who might eventually be heading north towards Holmgard (assuming we ever leave this hut!) ought to put a bit of thought into how Sommerlund has reacted to the situation and how the Elder Magi have arranged for them not to simply be trying to storm in there. I mean, an entire city has been veiled in a huge yellow dome of a power shield - you'd think someone would've noticed! ;D |
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 18, 2008 7:18:42 GMT -5
Perhaps that could be the situation that actually leads to the firts MKC formal meeting? And in walks us lot going 'well, we sort of know, but not...umm..look over there, Beowuuf's got a croll for you *runs*
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