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Anyways, hello everybody. My name is Crossed and I like chicken curry. A few other things I like is parakeets, post-apocalyptic webcomics, and Lucifer The Destroyer of Worlds (My lemon tree).

I also love a whole bunch of the stories on here (Endmaster should write a novel) and that's why I made an account. You know. To connect with the community and all that junk. Also to possibly do something stupid with my own CYS adventure.

Nice to meet all of you.

I don't think any of us should write a novel. We all use adverbs and dialogue tags. Best we could hope for is a self-published ebook.

I'm just saying, we'd probably be better off writing screenplays for television or film. It fits the tone of the stories of most writers here, anyways.

Eww...

hey what's wrong with screenplays

you have to write for a visual format. It's harder than you think.

I tell stories the way I want to. My narration is an integral part of the experience. Being able to write a story as if you really are an observer telling somebody, for me, is part of the fun. There's a certain magic in putting comments and personality in narration, and it's part of my fun and presumably most of the readers' fun as well. Writing for a visual medium would kill that for me. I could do it, but my usual, preferred storytelling method would clash violently with it. Especially because narration, imo, never, never, works when you could just show someone. That's the point of a visual medium. I don't really care how hard it might be, that's just not my bag, for the most part, though I have written screenplays before.

Compounded by the fact that whenever I get someone to make a visual thing for my stuff, they never get it right and I just end up using it as a rough approximation.

That's not even mentioning how horrible writing for television and movies can be, even without my own problems added into that. Sure, some people love to do it, and that's their job. More power to 'em, but weekly deadlines and sitting in a room full of people given directions by a boardroom who may or may not approve of the outcome, lacking any real creative control, and usually ending up having everything completely editted up and re-made into something completely different by even more writers who work upstairs, then rarely, if ever getting credit or recognition for anything creative you've ever contributed... Makes me kinda sad, really. And at the pay rates for both of them, I'd rather starve to death in the comfort of my own home writing something I really like, if badly, than starve to death in New York or Los Angeles writing something I'll end up hating for a corporation of some sort, even if somebody else makes it good.

Can't edit on an ipad, apparently?

The average payroll of a television writer makes as much as a veternarian, actually. A non best-selling novelist tends to make less than even that.

And, see, you actually have quite a bit creative control as the showrunner. Most of the writers who get their work edited haven't progressed to the rank or talent of making their own show yet, and thus aren't given as much control.

That's the keyword there, the showrunner. There can only be so many of those, and usually they've been in the company for a long time or they've been suffering at this shit for years. Most tv writers never get to be the showrunner, most of them spend their entire career in a boardroom spitballing, scrabbling away at something that's going to be crushed and retconned and editted into something unrecognizable, and trying to get people to take them seriously. Really not my jam.

Most never become showrunners because they aren't creative enough. They're comfortable with writing someone else's character and building someone else's world, but when asked to make their own they draw a blank. I used to be like that.

And then there's all the people that could be showrunners that aren't, because there can only be so many of them. I've talked to a pretty successful cartoonist who was doing his original thing for years and years, but once he was hard on his luck and did TV. Which is where everyone's writing was pretty much brushed aside. They were practically a formality. The only thing even resembling anything they did that made it to the show was a joke he made about snow-shoveling.

I hope I can write a few novels one day, or even a comic.

But hey, that's just me. You can call me Zag. I hope you stick around, follow the rules and have fun. Feel free to shoot me a Private Message whenever you want to talk.

Pleased to meet you. I'm Kiel, one of the site moderators, and I think curry is nice, parakeets are awesome, and that's a great name for a tree. I'd strongly recommend two things at this point: getting yourself an avatar (you get an identity in the community faster if we have a "face" to put the name to) and reading the articles in the help and info section. The articles cover everything you could possibly need / want to know--though you are always welcome to drop me a line via PM if you have questions.

Understood, I joined for a similar reason, and welcome!

We'll get along real well ;)

Welcome.

Hello, new person. Enjoy the site. Please don't break anything or end up being terrible.

Welcome to the community! The USB port's over there.

You sound like a cool guy. Welcome to the site and feel free to PM if you ever need to ask me anything :)

Sorry I'm late, but nice to meet you. I'm Sonic, and I am not a Trump supporter believe it or not.

what the fuck is that avatar

Oh right, and welcome to the site.

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