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10 years ago

Okay, so I've never done this before, and I'm looking for some help on my story game. I'm being rather cautious about this. The story is named 'Werewolves an' Magic' and it's my fist story game. If you want more details about it, PM me. Here is the general type of person I'm looking for,

*Someone who would actually help work on it

*Someone who is a good writer

*Someone who isn't a pervert and is willing to help write a story that has a rating no greater than a 4 or 5/8

Thanks. >.< Like I said, I will be very hesitant and cautious about choosing a co-author.

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10 years ago

So what I hear you saying is, you want a good writer to write your story for you so that you can stick onto them and leech all the credit?

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10 years ago

...I think you need to get your hearing checked, Drak.

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10 years ago

Agree.

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10 years ago

Nono, it's there.

EDIT: Ah, wait, no greater than 4 or 5. Well, I take that back.

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10 years ago

I think they mean maturity rating, given the context.

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10 years ago

Sorry I didn't clarify that more. It's the Maturity rating that can't be more than a 4 or 5 out of 8. >.< and no I don't want someone to write it for me, I like writing my own ideas. All I want is help writing it. I already have few pages.

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10 years ago

Perfectly reasonable, and I hope you find someone you can work with. ^_^

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10 years ago

So do I.

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10 years ago

I'll help, but, I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute, though I'll try to contribute as often as I can.

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10 years ago

While Drak's comment was a bit mean (which is weird 'cos translating what people say into a really brutal version of what they actually mean is supposed to be my job) I get where he's coming from.

Coming up with a thread saying, "I'm looking for a really good writer to help with my story-game, but I'll be very hesitant about choosing a co-author because I need to make sure they're up to my standards" does come off as kind of arrogant, like you think that you'd be doing them a favor by letting them co-author your story.

The trouble is that you're looking for a co-author who you'd consider a good writer. The trouble with good writers is that they only want to co-write games with other good writers. Since you haven't published a story game on the site yet, people don't know whether you're a good writer or not.

What I'd suggest is copying the first page of your story game and posting it in the thread so that people get a good example of your writing skills. That way they'd know whether you're a good enough writer that they'd want to co-author a game with you.

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10 years ago

I'm soo sorry it took so long to reply. It didn't notify me that someone posted on this thread. Here, I'll take your advice. Here's the first page of my story. I subtracted unnecessary space, but that's it in the way of editing it.

 

“Hey Sarah! Come on over and have lunch with me. I need to ask you something.” my friend Mirsole yelled at me over the noise of the oncoming crowd.

Mirsole was a nice girl with black hair that was always shorter than all the other girls’ hair, about the same length as mine. In fact, we had many things in common such as an unusual liking for meat, our size, our speed, and our extremely heightened senses. Oh yeah, were also both werewolves; it’s really hard to forget that part, no matter how much I want to.

There are only a few others who I suspect might be werewolves, but I’ve never had the courage to go up and ask them. The only for sure way to figure out if someone is a werewolf is to go make them really angry while there are no onlookers and hope they just go poof and go werewolf, and then you have to hope that they don’t claw your face off. Going werewolf is really quite easy, just let your anger flow over you and then you hear a pop and fur is suddenly all over you and you find that it is easier to walk on all fours. Very much like popcorn. Your anger is the heat and after it builds up for a while, you just pop. Though, with popcorn, it doesn’t sprout fur. Or claws. Or paws. Or a tail. Or a muzzle. So I guess in some ways it’s nothing like popping popcorn.

Anyways, lets focus on our wacky school. Yes, I said wacky. Most kids in our school can be associated with animals. Like you can associate a cheetah with Sapphire because of how stinkin’ fast she is. George, you can associate a hawk with because of his hooked nose and better than perfect eyesight. It’s also because the Antmut "School" (I have no idea why it’s named that, though I have noticed that if you switch around the letters.... never mind, it's probably nothing. ) is our home - and our prison.

The windows in our school are small, but are numerous. Each one is about a foot an a half on every side and have about a two foot space between them. The glass itself is practically indestructible. All even slightly sharp objects and sanded down, even the tables. Our bedrooms have foot thick walls that separate them from the others. The doors are all water-tight and fire-proof; in fact, the whole school is fire-proof. No one has ever seen the outside of the school, except for the small glances we get of a wide open grass land from the window, until they get to old to stay here and get taken away somewhere.

Okay, enough about the school. It’s time to get back to the story.

“Okay, I’ll be there in a sec’” I yelled back at her and hoped that she heard me over the clamor in the hall.

I tried to avoid running into anybody as I made a mad dash to the cafeteria line and hoped that I would get a spot near the front. Bouncing on the balls of my feet, I saw a poster on the wall that advertised a new club. When I turned back to the line, I saw that Lyasmi in front of me. She's the girl who always seems to be as deaf as a post, yet also seems to hear whispered conversations about her from down the hall.

“Hey,” I said to her, “What did ya’ cut in front of me for?”

She didn’t answer, though I knew better than to expect anything else. She didn’t even flinch or show any sign that she heard me.

 

Then there are two links here that say:

Pester her about cutting in line

admit defeat and wait your turn

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10 years ago

The reason I said I was cautious about choosing a so-author is because I don't want to accidently recruit a troll.

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10 years ago

I'll help. My grammar is...decent. I'm not a god of the English language, but I can help clean up grammatical and mechanical errors, if need be.

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10 years ago

Okay, thanks! Ummmm........ quick question though. How do you Co-author people? Or make it so they can edit errors like that? (They're the same thing, right?)

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10 years ago

You're going to go to the storygame options page of the editor. There, you will go down and click on the edit co-authors button.

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10 years ago

Ok. Thanks!

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10 years ago

Alright, when you need me, just pm the directions.

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10 years ago

laugh