Name and a little about yourself: I'm Deb. I'm 45 and teach. I have a commuter marriage, so I live in Texas and slave in Ohio, where it is currently doing this:
I'm especially likely to be seen here at alt_fen on days when I have a huge stack of papers to grade -- this weekend, for instance! -- and not at all during stretches when the teaching part of teaching is intense. (Clear as mud, that, I know.)
How you got here: Ah, that's easy. I read Peg Kerr's journal and she's been talking up this game since the summer. I was a huge fan of Nocturne Alley and loved playing at Nraged. (I may well have been there with a different LJ name, though, I can't really remember the chronology. If so, I was conversant.) I'm hooked on this game for two reasons: (1) I'm engaged by the subtle and unsubtle shifts from canon to this AU, and (2) because I really like the playing style (the short dialogue-only comments; the parallelism from comment to reply [first line/pgraph responds to first line/pgraph and so on] -- this keeps things sharp and moving; it was true of NA and is beautifully true here, as well). I'm hooked on alt_fen because you guys are great!
Ideas for Growth: I've got no good ideas about how to bring people into the fen, except that I think the expansion of players may bring some of their acquaintances along, which helps gradually through word of mouth. I hope, at least.
There are sometimes good plot moments for bring more folks on board, so we fen and the players might look for those opportunities for re-pimping the game.
And we might suggest to the mod (she said, suggestively) that in addition to the weekly updates, it might help to have periodic summaries of "the action to date" (after each term of school perhaps ... or after a major plot milestone passes). It's already hard to imagine anyone reading the whole game to catch up.
Maybe the mod would also consider adding a post-dated alt_fen entry with a regularly-update linked index of fen post topics: that could help us and any newcomers find explanations of those game issues we've discussed in the past.
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I'm Deb. I'm 45 and teach. I have a commuter marriage, so I live in Texas and slave in Ohio, where it is currently doing this:
I'm especially likely to be seen here at
How you got here:
Ah, that's easy. I read Peg Kerr's journal and she's been talking up this game since the summer. I was a huge fan of Nocturne Alley and loved playing at Nraged. (I may well have been there with a different LJ name, though, I can't really remember the chronology. If so, I was
Ideas for Growth:
I've got no good ideas about how to bring people into the fen, except that I think the expansion of players may bring some of their acquaintances along, which helps gradually through word of mouth. I hope, at least.
There are sometimes good plot moments for bring more folks on board, so we fen and the players might look for those opportunities for re-pimping the game.
And we might suggest to the mod (she said, suggestively) that in addition to the weekly updates, it might help to have periodic summaries of "the action to date" (after each term of school perhaps ... or after a major plot milestone passes). It's already hard to imagine anyone reading the whole game to catch up.
Maybe the mod would also consider adding a post-dated