Young Writers Society

Woot! We have a good group with us! I want to keep this big ol' train moving so...

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@TheSilverFox, @yakitsa, @Lightsong, @falconer, @Apricity, @moonwatcher, @sacredlege, @remembrance, @sheyren, @Mea, @drthomas, @kaos, @Tuesday, @fortis, @everwinter, @Lumi

I want to set a goal to get the first post up sometime by the end of the day this coming Monday - October 31st and prolly going into November 1st for a lot of you! - how does that sound for people? Can we aim for getting all of our character templates done by then?

If the pacing seems fast, let me know! Also, I know a lot of you only JUST joined, so let me know if you need more time.

Let's Talk!

DT helps us with discussing general things so, it's doing great, but if some of you want to bounce ideas off of each other, or have conversations/plan with a small group, then some kind of group chat may work better. Googledocs, WFP, skype, whatsapp let me know if you would be interested in any of these clients, and I will get a group together and PM details so that your information can still remain private c: Let me know your thoughts on this!

We may also need to come up with the following planning documents:
- Character Cheat sheet
- Map of the campus
- Class schedules

I haven't yet started on these, so if you want to help, just so happen to come across cool images or cool maps or soundtracks you want to share or have ideas on how any of those things should go, or other planning docs we may need, let's all collaborate these things together! This sb is now OURS.

Circles and cliques

Throughout the course of the week, I'll prolly reach out to each of you and figure out about devvying up a group so big like ours into smaller circles, just like how in highschool you have your own unique circle of friends! That way we can start discussing how our personalities are going to work together. Potential rivalries and potential conflicts. This will get jucier as we start posting in the SB, but we might as well start thinking about it ^^

For example, @mage, my character Walt would definitely be BFFs with Ralph and I would look up to him for advice all the time, so, hullo! We probably don't get along great with Wilde @drthomas. I can see an embarrasing football incident break any kind of civility we may have towards each other

Stuff like this, I'll start bugging each of you and see if we can get some gears turning!

And then Deaths

Don't get SO attached though. There's still a murderer on the loose. Are we all okay with random, permanent and indiscriminate deaths? C: Come homecoming time, it could be me or you gone forever, are we okay with this?

...Can I just say that roster is ridiculous ? The size is daunting enough, but the amount of good writers here makes me want to quietly sneak out through a window.

Sacredlege wrote:...Can I just say that roster is ridiculous ? The size is daunting enough, but the amount of good writers here makes me want to quietly sneak out through a window.

me too me too me too
the standards are higher than my iq

Er, I hate to break this to you, but I have to you. Since my uncle has gone back to Jakarta, I am back to being laptop- and phoneless. Therefore, I ask for my character to be introduced late. Also, William Blake kinda scares me when I read him from Wikipedia...

I'm a big fan of gDocs for SB planning - or WFP if people prefer. Can we do a big old-fashioned spreadsheet of character relationships and interactions those are my fave and a really good way of getting subplots going imho.

Also I'm okay with Oscar dying, as long as it's in style, to make up for his death as a destitute ruined poet in exile.

(And we get to keep his famous last words - "either that wallpaper goes or I do.")

@sacredlege -


@yakitsa


@Lightsong


For everybody, if you need help with characters. Think of them as characters first, inspired by dead poets. You don't have to know every single biographical thing about your poet or the poets on here either. I'm a big nerd with this stuff and even I don't know everything. Just get a gist or a snippet of the poet and take it from there.

I find, If you can figure out what their label is, for example: would they be goths? Jocks? Theatre nerds? EXEMPLARY HEADSTUDENT? Once you know that, you can use the trope to further flesh them out as characters first c: i also found reading my poet's poem was a lot more accessible to me into their mind than reading their bio.

For the people who finished their character bios, how'd you guys approach it? Maybe your methods can help others come up with theirs! Though some characters can be trickier than others too, so don't be discouraged! ^^

@Lightsong

Lol! Omg Sacred I did NOT know that about Whitman & Wilde, that is gold 8D (I did know Whitman was not all that straight but this is great, Stells what do you think?)

But totally can see Emily fit in nicely with that crew, what do you say @fortis?

EDIT: also Stella, I like the idea of the spreadsheet so so so much

Lel, Poe was into my consideration too when, I saw his name, but I knew less of his personality than Blake. I'll do my research on him when I can and I'll tell you what I think after that.

@everyone: Anyone knows a male poet that talks about huntress, deer, and love in generality? I'm fond of the poem and would like to know more about it and its creator, but my memory is too hazy...

I just read excerpts from Nature and Self-Reliance, and I don't think I've ever been this excited about a storybook/wanted to die from pure joy when thinking about how creative I can be when it comes to dead people.

@Audy, I'm prepared for many collaborative PMs in the future! ^_^ Plus (I can't remember their names off the top of my head), I'm also ready to become friends with anyone in the Transcendental Club. Which Ralph will be starting early on in the storybook. ^_^ I'm thinking of making him a first year. Is there any policy on club-creation at the school they attend?

Also, I think the most difficult fact is that I'll have to get used to calling characters by their first names rather than last names. Like my character is Ralph, not Emerson.

Still getting used to that.

All the characters I know well were taken so I apologise in advance since I'll be using wikipedia for a while so I get the personality right

Someone do Hemiiiiiiingwaaaaaaaay >.>

Also @Audy, @Sacredlege - THIS FACT BRINGS ME SUCH JOY.

I'm so excited to be playing Oscar Wilde.

Also I recently discover Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party. It's almost a similar idea to this actually xD I've only seen the first couple of episodes but it has famous poets and writers at dinner (including Poe, Wilde, Dickinson and others like Dostoyevsky and Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë) and there's a murder. It's good fun.

I don't know much about Emerson Ralph either (only the basics) @Remembrance, so Wikipedia and I are also going to become besties. I plan on researching him, though! Maybe there's a good documentary or biography I can read. >.> Then again, I can learn a lot about him just by reading his works! ^_^

I remember researching Dr. Seuss for a project in...fourth grade, I believe. So I know a few stuffs about him. I was shocked by some facts that I found out about him. He'd definitely be a class clown, and best friends with Shakespeare (If you haven't seen their rap battle, you totally should). As for his death, I think I'd be able to handle that. maybe

I'd be up for some planning on Google Docs or WFP in the future. Also, I shall do some basic research on all your characters as soon as possible.

Yeah, I can see that. I also can see collab in the future.