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Re: A Knight to Remember
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Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:44:18 GMT
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id betcha very few people have read it because of a few big reasons.
1) the length. my reading list of printed material is very short and very
elite because of my college reading list (a history major and all). to take on
a 100+ pg document is simply not on the "to do" list.
2)i often check lugnet at work, where i have internet only priviledges, so i
don't download anything (or else id be fired). if the story was posted on a
website (lugnet (ftx) sites are amazingly easy to make, and highly
recommended), especially broken into chapters and whatnot, your readership
would jump WAY up. <http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/>
3)the title.. well, its a pun and a cliche. it doesn't give me a lot of faith
in what ill be spending my time reading. i think its a big reason why people
are confused to what the whole story is about.
take an example: Sava's Chronicles of Ikros. we know it is sava's created
world, ikros. we know by 'chronicle' that is should be kinda long, kinda epic,
and basically have to do with happenings on a grand scale (awakening a dragon,
fighting undead hoard, what have you).
<http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html>
my personal story: The Caeric Revolution. A made up world with people called
'caeric' and specifically about some sort of revolution.
<at bottom>
your title is the way to let people know what its all about, why they should
read.
4) id read the recent string about castle stories, seeing common complaints and
try to address them in your story. people like PICTURES! it is what makes a
lego story about LEGO.
hope that helps
-lenny
http://www.lugnet.com/~1168/caerany/
In lugnet.castle, Adam Angle writes:
> I really wasn't looking forward to it, was actually hesitating in this, as I
> did want the story available for people on different word processor systems
> to read it, but oh well, I need to add pictures, and Sun Star Writer is a
> B17CI-I to put clear, visible pictures into. So then...
> The Sun Star Writer manuscript of A Knight to Remember will no longer be
> updated. Sorry, I got tired of having to deal with that program. I'm not too
> sure how many people are actually even reading this any more, but it seemed,
> when Shiri mentioned how long it was, that at least she was using Sun Star
> Writer to view the document. I may be wrong about that, I likely am, but the
> Sun Star Writer document pages are much shorter than the Word pages.
> In any case, if anyone using Sun Star Writer is still reading this beast,
> here's a link:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11430
>
> Enjoy it while you can.
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| (...) Alright, I've addressed a few of these issues in previous posts, but I'll do so again. 1.) Pictures: I am going to be putting pictures into this story but, as the route message stated, it was a pain in the @88 to do so on the StarWriter (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Ok, I posted a bit ago about not being overly happy with the stories, mainly for their lack of pictures and Lego-relatedness. But by my own admission I haven't read much, so I've felt rather obligated over the past few days to back up what (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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