When things go quiet

Summary:

The thread that was created to prevent a second hat-move.

When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 22 Jan 2018 23:38

Hello there,

When things get quiet I think about launching some stuff and ether set of a new set of things on the site (whatever might be in the set) or get shut down in a similar fashion to the airship "Hindenburg".

The question of this thread is whether I should launch my pieces as one mass or further apart from each other.

Since my next attempt at a big story still is not finished I thought about some of my older stand-alone pieces.
The ones I plan to launch, in no particular order

http://ci-sandbox.wikidot.com/hat-runner
Mr. Manic
They run

http://ci-sandbox.wikidot.com/phase-change
Black liquid mirror

http://ci-sandbox.wikidot.com/afterwar
Untrusted Writing Machine
Sin-Bite-Chalkboard

As there is nothing relaying on this pieces I can launch as few or as many without major consequences for my other stories. If there are reasons why I should not post one or more (or all) of these, this is the place to tell me.

If there is a specific thing that might warrant further discussion I will make a separate thread for that if necessary.

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Re: When things go quiet

Yorick1 23 Jan 2018 04:46

I think the Black Mirror is an idea that can work.

I'm also thinking about adding something here to see if it breaks this hiatus.

Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 23 Jan 2018 13:16

All of my tales and items are related to some kind of horror.
Black Liquid Mirror is related to alien invasion, while relying on invaders
BLMs horror is not the goo monster that thing is secondary, the crossed out line is the one where the horror comes from.

Just for completion
Mr. Manic -> The low budget killer without superpowers
They run -> what is worse, being the one that lives or the one that dies?
UWM -> free information for everyone, including stuff that should not be known
SBC -> what is your sin and would you die for it?

As I understand your comment non of these are ready and only one of five is fixable.

That's a bummer. Guess I'll start over.

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 24 Feb 2018 20:43

Sooo….
I need some help in getting my points across.
I can silently write up a storm for very long, but to ensure that my vision is visible once i post it i first need to locate the issue.

Is anyone up to help me with that?

I can write more and more, but if i am missing something that is perhaps not even important to me in a story i will never find the missing piece.

I start with a point, than a structure, than details.
My studies of story-structure, storytelling, casual science and philosophy can only get me so far it seems.

I need some help, please?

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Re: When things go quiet

Yorick1 28 Feb 2018 04:00

I have begun to notice that feedback is not among the priorities of the site. Anyway…

I think the best thing is to try to want to write a story or article NO based on the expectations of the Insurgency.

Do not write with the intention of creating a good insurgent publication, just have a GOOD PUBLICATION without more. If it is done with effort and dedication, whoever reads it will notice it.

If what you want is to create a story in which you present your character, try to make it look natural and not immediately as an evil and generic agent or doctor. If it is a self-contained story you have to go to the point without many detours and that the details are, so that you empathize with the character, not only to describe the place where he is and his actions.

I apologize if I hear very unilateral and generalize a lot but from what I have read that seems to be one of the aspects in which more attention should be paid.

I can help you more if you describe more accuracy what you want to change and/or improve with the structure of your stories.

If you want to discuss it more about this you can also send me a private message.

Until next time.

Re: When things go quiet

DrCaduceus 03 Mar 2018 05:42

I agree with you that feedback among contributors should be better encouraged. I will be more attentive with giving it to posted and drafted work.

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 01 Mar 2018 00:34

About that help…
My specific problem is that i can not get what i read out of my stories, to be read in the same way by others.
I write horror, but people do not read it as horror. I don't know what i am doing wrong.
Wording? To little detail? To much detail? To little explanation? To much connected things?
I have tried these angles of correction:
Change of wording, addition of details, removal of details, pages/posts dedicated to explaining my work, standalones.

I am missing something.
Something vital and i don't know what it is.

I have written non-CI stories and character-pieces. I have examples for what i have been up to.
most of that is in my current sandbox
http://ci-sandbox.wikidot.com/slow-burn

Jerry is a series of character-pieces
Reaper, Chill and Ghost are standalones where the insurgency is a side-note at most.

Note:

you have to go to the point without many detour

Do you know how to do that without explicitly stating the point?

Thanks for anything you send my way.

EDIT: In case we need to go into a specific piece of my work to keep things on track just tell me which one you are most comfortable with. Fixing EVERYTHING that has gone wrong over my entire writing-history is to much for one thread. That will take a while and loads of feedback.

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 18 Mar 2018 20:56

Well, things are quiet again.
Since it is the only piece I have data on I might launch the "Black liquid mirror".
Not sure how long that thing would stick, as the data I have on it is literally one line that dose not even sound that sure about the quality of the piece.

But when things go quiet…
Meta goes BOOOOM.

Even if the piece burns, it might burn bright enough to wake someone up.

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Re: When things go quiet

Yorick1 19 Mar 2018 05:16

I think I'm also going to take the risk with the Teal Division hub that I want to make.

Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 19 Mar 2018 18:13

Wasn't the problem with your last hubs that there was just no content to link to?
Teal as it stands right now has (to my knowledge) only 3 relevant pieces on the English side.

Side note: Is there a sandboxed version of the Teal Hub anywhere?

Side to the side note: By the way, as your "review" of my piece is the only thing I am basing this move on, could you please tell me what "It can work" means to you (as it might mean something else to me).

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 21 May 2018 22:31

Hi, there. It is quiet again and i have ventured into the past, dug out one of my old projects, added a bit and now it goes here, for some feedback, possibly. Should not much happen with this i might post it this week.
This item is old so i cant claim that it was tailored for the results of the "Why read CI?" thread, but i think that this, like the works mentioned prior in this thread, should hit most of the targets.
Enjoy an amnestic pill with a shocking twist, this is "Sugar Cube".

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 23 Jun 2018 17:12

And here I thought, the new guys would rejoice once I am gone and show me up.
But here we are. Quiet again.
(Side note, I was never away)
My last attempt to get feedback before launch, as depicted above, was not very successful, but hey, when have the odds ever stopped me from trying?

BLM and Sugar Cube are off the table, but my other suggestions are still in the running also something else:

http://ci-sandbox.wikidot.com/slow-burn
The Reaper in the room
Chill from next door

Do not worry, I wont post stuff to the main-site next week as I will be tangled up in some Real Life stuff.
Just thought I leave the net out to catch some feedback, for the time after.

Also I don’t like silence, so consider this the Silence-Combo-Breaker.

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 17 Aug 2018 12:20

I recently wrote a few short concepts and wanted to know if there is an immediate interest in any of the last updates to web-man. Otherwise i will focus on the first part of "The Jerry Series". I think it still has some grammar errors, but i believe i can finish it in the next few days.
This will be fun.

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Re: When things go quiet

Meta Wonderrat 17 Nov 2018 20:54

Sour Wine is almost ready.
Ignore the concept at the top and go straight to the item. The only part i am not sure about is the placing of the Immediate recall.
I Imagen the upper recall as something added after the IMMEDIATE RECALL as to prevent operatives looking up the item from still trying to use it as they have done for the last Year and a half.
This part is the last thing unclear about the item so in case i get response i will try to work the suggestion in, otherwise i set the timer for release.

Currently i am leaning towards removing the upper part and moving the IMMEDIATE thing up into usage.

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Fighting Monsters and Language since 2016.