SomeGuy: Metropolis

Welcome to my office.

Here at the "Metropolis" page, I produce my more professional writing for theOtaku.com. While many of my more mainstream essays, reports and features (possibly fiction if I go insane enough) shall come out via the Official theOtaku.com World, all of my work on less-recognised, slightly stranger writing shall come out here.

Also, I'll use "Metropolis" to post any writing guides or other side-projects that perhaps don't need to come out directly on the official page. And of course, if anyone has any specific request for things to be covered I can work from there as well. We'll look into all of these as they come.

If you're looking for my less-professional, off-the-record blog, you want go to my "Smallville" world.

(Banner Design Courtesy of Red Tigress - thanks Red!)

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Becky's Writers' Response, Number 4

(My response for this week's writing prompt.) "It'll Grow Back"...

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Becky's Writers' Response, Number 2

(My response for this week's writing prompt.) "Write about a person who quit." Alright, ...

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BWBB Response Number 1

(My response for this week's writing prompt.) "Pass the puck!" she screamed to the kids skating in the arena bel...

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All it needs is a name...

Hey, all you writing-types on theO! Got a question for ya:

A recent post on the Official World led to a few comments with a nice idea for a specific Writer's World on theOtaku. As editor of the Fan Words, I wholeheartedly agree with this idea and shall set one up within the week.

So far, I foresee two main purposes for such a world:
-One, it will give our illustrious list of beta-readers a far more stable, purposeful home base and presence on the site.
-Two, it will be an excellent place for members to perhaps host writing workshops for things like stylistic approaches, grammar tricks and other writing-related topics.

There have also been suggestions that we maybe even have little writing exercises every now and then, especially as a means for beta-readers to create short work examples for others to see. This way, beta-readers without as many viewable Fan Words can still demonstrate their preferences and styles.

I'm still working over how much guest-posting will be involved with this place, but that can be worked out and changed as we see fit.

As always, I have already contacted Red Tigress to create an introduction banner (because she's just cool like that).

And now for my question . . .

What do we call this thing? During the initial brainstorming, I was using "Writers' Den" as a placeholder name while I described it to others. Red herself later came up with "The Writers' Block" which I'm liking right now.

Any more suggestions for naming this World? The sooner we have a name, the sooner we can get to setting it up . . . and the sooner we can all get to work!

Posting For Posterity (Part 2)

(Originally posted by adam on January 26, 2008) Weekly Town Hall Meetings Gail, SomeGuy, myself, and the podcasters had a fun web-meeting with audio and chat. Wouldn't it be cool to have a li...

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