Is THOIN still happening?

The General Section died off for the same reason. Surely the aim of the game would be to find someone, or a team of people who weren't likely to desert. Stalwarts on the site. There is no security. The appeal of Marvel Omega and Marvel/DC Anthology is that they are a community project, and there is a sense of instant gratification. Yes, writers can sometimes lose interest in a title but the editors can always rely on someone else to step in and help close up story threads. There's also a "vibe" with these independent sites, a lot of the writers communicate externally and make plans together concerning their titles, and then there's also the bonus of images on the sites - which adds to the "comic" feel of them.

THOIN is a young site, and it could easily learn from it's older counterparts. I mean, those sites are were it lost most of its writers too. It was a lack of community for most of them.

Meriades is no longer running the Marvel Fanfare. It was time consuming and he had real life to deal with. His sole focus is on writing at the moment, so really the Marvel Fanfare isn't an option.

GMM

Yeah I agree with booty. I think the main reason people left was lack of feedback which directly lead to lack of writing which lead to lack of updating. We had a good year or two of really just the General Section booming and in fact, for most of THOIN's existence, it was basically mostly GS. Feedbacking was our sense of community. Back in the day, there were lots of feedbacking and that's when we thrived most.

And I agree, in no way should someone feel obligated to feedback EVERY title. That's a bit much. No one will be forced to feedback(save for the editors :-p, but they'll only have to feedback the titles they are proofreading). But I do think feedbacking is what gives us our community feel and not just the "shared universes".

I think we've had two Eras. The 617 Era, which was when 617 was booming and X-M and All*Star were born and thriving and than the GS Era, which is when people were mostly writing for the GS Section and we had little "shared universe" movement. Back in the GS Era we had plenty of updates, so I don't think it's the "shared universe" thing.

And also I think it's commitment. I think that's where all of us struggle. We have real lives and writing fan fiction titles of our design just isn't a top priority sometimes. When I'm exhausted and tired, I want to relax, when I have free time, I want to go out. It's all about finding the time to write and I'm really going to try and do that now. So yeah I guess that's where the "Shared Universe" thing works best. If someone loses their commitment, you can always find someone else to take their place. Not so much with titles in the General Section.

I think it would be awesome if we could get a shared universe up and running again. I think the Omniverse has great potential but so far only one person is writing for it. I think maybe whoever is in charge of the project(Booty and Scott right?) should make another thread about it and see who's interested in what, and I mean REALLY interested.

A webcomic would be awesome. That would be really cool if we can expand the site that way. But yeah right now we all need to sit down and write!

I've got two stories in the wait(COTA and Exiles). I'd love more. Remember the NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS is XtremeCota@gmail.com.

Meanwhile I'm going to continue to try and think of a list of places we can advertise. Again I think a pretty banner would help and a nice looking update or two before I start sending out the ads.

I think we're going to be sort of under a banner theme too "Regenesis" Das_boot came up with the name. I like it :).

So yeah I'm going to get my Don Draper hate on and start thinking of a catchy way to get people over here. And if someone is good at making banners, PM me!


Edited by XtremeOne1 - 04-Sep-2011 at 5:51pm

Marvel Omega, and the Anthology's don't get much feedback though. It's the interpersonal relations of those sites, and the sense of community that keeps them going. Maybe not necessarily a shared universe but definitely a shared participation. Still, I wish you all the best of luck.

GMM

Originally posted by Guthrie.P Marvel Omega, and the Anthology's don't get much feedback though. It's the interpersonal relations of those sites, and the sense of community that keeps them going. Maybe not necessarily a shared universe but definitely a shared participation. Still, I wish you all the best of luck. GMM

But they are a shared universe and that brings them a sense of community.

What brings the General Section community is the feedbacking because that's the only shared participation. It's not just 'OMG YOUR STORY IS AWESOME!" because well that's not feedbacking, but it was the "Oh that was a surprise" and the "Yeah didn't like that" and the "I hope this happens" which brought up discussions and new ideas.  And when it came to the Family Section it was conversation/feedback between the reader and the writer that lead to the growth of that section. That's how Champions of Erith grew.

In terms of the GS section, if we all just put up stories and say nothing, there is ZERO community, because feedbacking is the only real sense of shared participation, unless we do things like "spotlight ons..." and other specials.

Well, I still want to do something with my Avengers in All*star, don't know when I'll put something together for that, currently committed to my MO projects which I'm sure one of my issues will go up this month and I'm not too concerned on whether it will get feedback or not since the last two issues haven't been read.

I barely read any fanfic, hence my usually terribly low amount of feedback. >.< I like writing more than reading.

Originally posted by Guthrie.P Meriades is no longer running the Marvel Fanfare. It was time consuming and he had real life to deal with. His sole focus is on writing at the moment, so really the Marvel Fanfare isn't an option. GMM

Edited by Gibbering Fool - 06-Sep-2011 at 5:53am

I like the Regenesis banner idea.

Edited by Kipe - 06-Sep-2011 at 5:22pm

Hmm the Family Section could be like the Multiverse or something, since it encompasses multiple universes within it.

Well remember guys, no universe will get it's own "section"(sidebar thingy...) until it's reached a certain number of issues. We had to make that rule do to the "Guys, I have a universe idea!" that popped up every week(sometimes, we'd just getting first time posters creating new names and be, "Look at my universe idea! Request to be a part of my greatness strangers!"

But of course, those rules are more than subject to change if I feel a universe is really taking off and becoming more than just a "Family Title" I don't think anything that says "dimensional" is good, only cause it's confusing.

Independent Imprint is perfect because it's exactly what it is, but it is simple, still sounds interesting, special and cool.

And yeah again Kipe, I would need someone who could do banner stuff for that. Please we need to decide what images to use.

Re: Banners

I seem to remember that a title had to reach 20 issues before it was given it's own 'universe' designation.

I think Kipe has a good point, if people could feedback directly to the site and link it to the story, that'd be awesome. Although my worry would be that we'd potentially get a lot of trolls or anonymous negative "YOU SUCK?!?!?! LULZZZZ" comments, which whilst I couldn't give two craps, it could be off-putting to new writers.