Yeah, it's been ages since I've heard anyone be that indirect about it... and if one is being indirect, the point is to minimize the reaction, not deliberately provoke one.
Not a bad idea.
From a downvoted comment:
Because players aren't sure where a story is going and can't edit previous sections, the stories tend to be plagued by pacing problems- scenes that could be a paragraph are dragged out over pages, important plot beats are glossed over, and so on. It's also very rare that players are able to pull off the kind of coordination necessary for satisfying narrative buildup and payoff, and the focus on player character interaction tends to leave a lot of necessary story scaffolding like scene setting and NPC interaction badly lacking.
If your goal in writing this was in part to promote or socially explore these utopian ideas rather than just to enjoy a forum game, it may be worth considering ways to mitigate these issues- to modify the Glowfic formula to better accommodate an audience.
Yud's response:
We are both experienced authors not in need of this advice at this level.
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and moreover, wat
"Iarwain", cf. Charles' Wain, wainwright; from the Middle English for "a wagon that transports ears"
A free full-cast Audiobook of Planecrash is currently in production [,,.] using AI-generated voices.
maybe we, as a species, deserve what is coming to us
And yet my crossovers of Daria with The Sandman, They Live and the Amelia Peabody series all remain without a TVTropes presence. Where's my uncritical adulation?!
Consistent content that helps support people in their everyday lives [...] Just “selected Sequences reading and discussion” could be a reasonable format.
Bible study. You've reinvented Bible study.
Shot, in the post:
Chaser, from the comments: