Comments on: The First-Person Observer

By: DoctorDisaster

DoctorDisaster — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:31:51 +0000

@Chris: having a short list of reliable writers might be better than open submissions. Also once you’ve got a few good writers you can delegate the submission-editing duties to one of them.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:13:17 +0000

I’ve always said editing doesn’t take longer, it just seems longer. Also it takes longer. It’d be cool to have a ‘Featured comments’ bit, so that immediately beneath the article you can have all the cool in-character / in-world comments people write, then let normal discussion all go on below that. That way people could write related pieces in there, and they’d have good exposure and endorsement from you if you liked them. But if you got more than you could read, they’d still be up there, just less prominently.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:36:19 +0000

Wow, thanks for the hot link, Tom!

I’ve been asked a number of times already about taking submissions, and am sort of mulling it over at the moment. Everyone seems to think it would save me a lot of time to have multiple contributors, but I can’t imagine anything more time-consuming than reading, editing, and rewriting other people’s stories. Judging from some of the great comments, though, it’d probably be in the site’s best interest to have people contribute. People are being really creative and funny, and have a lot of great ideas. It’s probably ultimately going to depend on how long I can come up with ideas on my own.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:40:09 +0000

Wouldn’t be surprised, but he does seem enthusiastic. So, I suppose we should enjoy it while it lasts, right.

By: Mr. Brit

Mr. Brit — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:05:02 +0000

As much as I like Chris Livingston’s writing, I can’t help but feel like this will only last a month or two at the most. What there is though, is as always, brilliant.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:32:04 +0000

I’m loving it so far but, it’ll be interesting to see if he can continue to update it, I reckon Chris should put in a ‘letters’ page or something, so people can write articles or letters and submit them to him. After all, it takes more than one person to write a paper.

Oh yeah, and remember to check out the comments under the articles, it’s worth it.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:03:55 +0000

He’s really got something there. I wonder if he takes submissions? It’s the sort of site that fills your head with ideas for articles. You could do an interview with the Shinra officer guarding the train station at the start of FFVII. “He’d run at me, stab me with his sword, then run back to where he started. He did it over and over again. It was horrible. I shot him four times and it just made him angrier.”

It was nice to see twitter explode when he announced it.

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By: n00bie51

n00bie51 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:54:27 +0000

This is great!

I was hoping the Health Pack Reform would touch on the issue of regenerating health and how it’s pervading everywhere, but I see what he did thar.