Hopefully of the green glowing kind.
Seriously? Did you not watch Smallville?
I wish someone working at a well known magazine would collect a few stories like this and compiled it into an essay about the hidden value these games hold and the true emotional impact a closure of a long running online title has on its players.
I think Angelus and I were feeling more or less the same thing. At least when it comes to the final scene in that video. Can't imagine how long it took to make. Blue Christmas indeed... It's not quite Christmas without the CoH holiday stuff. Christmas Wish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3S-3LObdyM
Sadly, I am nowhere near a big enough gun to get notice over at some place like New Yorker or Harpers or even Playboy. Any submission I made or recommended would go in the slush pile, to eventually be sent the dreaded "This does not suit our purposes at this time" rejection notice.
Terwyn's "Voices" blog is built around that concept. Sadly, I am nowhere near a big enough gun to get notice over at some place like New Yorker or Harpers or even Playboy. Any submission I made or recommended would go in the slush pile, to eventually be sent the dreaded "This does not suit our purposes at this time" rejection notice.The best thing we could do would be to start voting "Voices" up at sites like Reddit.
Well, considering someone posted part IV on such a site, and I ended up dealing with 2000+ visits over the span of four hours, that would help greatly. I'll have the next part live tomorrow.
I just subscribed to your blog. Love it! So moving and well expressed. How to we get the attention now of a major publisher who needs your your writing as a human interest story. Wouldn't it also be interesting if somehow the Korean journalist Victoria spoke to as Mercedes got linked up with both of y'all and furthered the story over there? Hmmmmmmm.