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Author: * Sankhkare Thutmose -
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Date: Feb 14, 2004 - 13:32
...so please don't take it that way. But I'm going to risk it by venturing an opinion.
In all honesty, I've stopped reading the Really, Really, Really Bad Story, because it seems to have become a random grouping of non-sequitars based on a huge game of oneupsmanship. In other words, "Can I be more outrageous than you?" *g*
While this was fun to read for a time, I thought the original premise was you wrote one sentence — one whole sentence — and the next person picked that up, carrying the story in possibly another direction, another voice, another style. As I said, writing partial sentences designed as cliffhangers to leave the character in an outrageous situation was fun for a while, but it just doesn't do anything for me as far as building writing skills.
I'm not trying to disparage anyone who enjoys the RRRB Story as it is — not at all — I'm just saying that it's very easy for it to fall into the style it's become and never get out of it. Is that what everyone intends? If so, terrific; if not then perhaps the next story we might handle in a different style.
As I said, it's only my opinion and maybe I'm the only one who feels this way. *g* I won't repeat my opinion, again, but I did want to see if I'm alone in this concern.
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