the ramble dump
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Regeneration
I've tried to avoid going into things like this on this blog, but because there might be readers who are wondering why I keep changing my mind about it, I think I need to give some sort of an explanation.
I'm going to continue writing City of Anarchy. Two reasons for this:
(1) I had decided to give up on it because the community it's based on was falling apart and things had become very ugly for various reasons. I hadn't planned on going back because I was fed up of it all. Above all, I was angry with some people, and I still do disagree with a lot of things that were said and the way a lot of things were handled, but that doesn't matter now. I'd also decided that there was no point in me being there because there was nothing keeping me there. I wasn't enjoying it, and hadn't been particularly interested in anything that was going on for some time. I also wasn't too keen on being there for the dozen 'how to make it a better place' threads that I expected to follow, which always went around in circles in the end, because it was an unmoderrated board (the publishers that own it abandoned it years ago), and nothing the community decided on could really be enforced properly.
But I realise now that my exit was more a heat-of-the-moment thing than anything. I underestimated them. Not only have they recovered, but it's now better than ever. Everything's under control so it won't ever get out of hand like it did again. Ironically, I was originally against having moderators because an unmoderrated board had its advantages, but they've sorted it out so we're not restricted as you usually are with moderators, and so far it's working. I'm reminded of what it was that made me stick around there in the first place. Maybe a change or a fresh start was what was needed. I resolved to abandon it forever and only lasted a few weeks. Go me.
(2) After I started to have some initial ideas for City of Anarchy, it very rapidly grew and grew with all the different concepts, ideas and jokes, and in a surprisingly short amount of time, I had the main frame and a lot of the content planned out. As egotistic as it sounds, I really like a lot of the ideas I came up with for it that couldn't really be used as effectively if I tried to include it in something else, and I'm proud of the story as a whole and how it all fits together, and even when I planned never to return to that community, I couldn't help feeling that it was a shame that I was just abandoning it. I considered continuing to write it without basing it on the community, but I knew it wouldn't work as well. Although I know now that other projects like The Aberration are going to end up being slightly pushed aside like they were when I first started it, I'm sort of relieved I can now continue writing it like I was doing. I think more than anything it's because with other projects (like TA, where it's taken a year and a half to finally decide on a plot), I don't really have much of an idea where the story is headed, but City of Anarchy is one of those rare occasions where I do.
I'm going to continue writing City of Anarchy. Two reasons for this:
(1) I had decided to give up on it because the community it's based on was falling apart and things had become very ugly for various reasons. I hadn't planned on going back because I was fed up of it all. Above all, I was angry with some people, and I still do disagree with a lot of things that were said and the way a lot of things were handled, but that doesn't matter now. I'd also decided that there was no point in me being there because there was nothing keeping me there. I wasn't enjoying it, and hadn't been particularly interested in anything that was going on for some time. I also wasn't too keen on being there for the dozen 'how to make it a better place' threads that I expected to follow, which always went around in circles in the end, because it was an unmoderrated board (the publishers that own it abandoned it years ago), and nothing the community decided on could really be enforced properly.
But I realise now that my exit was more a heat-of-the-moment thing than anything. I underestimated them. Not only have they recovered, but it's now better than ever. Everything's under control so it won't ever get out of hand like it did again. Ironically, I was originally against having moderators because an unmoderrated board had its advantages, but they've sorted it out so we're not restricted as you usually are with moderators, and so far it's working. I'm reminded of what it was that made me stick around there in the first place. Maybe a change or a fresh start was what was needed. I resolved to abandon it forever and only lasted a few weeks. Go me.
(2) After I started to have some initial ideas for City of Anarchy, it very rapidly grew and grew with all the different concepts, ideas and jokes, and in a surprisingly short amount of time, I had the main frame and a lot of the content planned out. As egotistic as it sounds, I really like a lot of the ideas I came up with for it that couldn't really be used as effectively if I tried to include it in something else, and I'm proud of the story as a whole and how it all fits together, and even when I planned never to return to that community, I couldn't help feeling that it was a shame that I was just abandoning it. I considered continuing to write it without basing it on the community, but I knew it wouldn't work as well. Although I know now that other projects like The Aberration are going to end up being slightly pushed aside like they were when I first started it, I'm sort of relieved I can now continue writing it like I was doing. I think more than anything it's because with other projects (like TA, where it's taken a year and a half to finally decide on a plot), I don't really have much of an idea where the story is headed, but City of Anarchy is one of those rare occasions where I do.
Labels: boardfic, city of anarchy
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