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!)

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!

Life: 05/20/08 | By: SomeGuy | 14 comments | theOtaku.com | Tags: beta-readers, fan words, writing