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Everyone loves the summer. I never really got it myself. Sure, when you're twelve and the endless days stretch out ahead of you like a sun drenched beach you can understand it. But when your manager is sweating because his manager's manager has promised 'results', summer's are itchy places, where you feel light headed and you soon realise you don't really know anyone.

"The difficulty with the pressure cases" Uncle Neal would regale me, "Is that no-one wants them and no-one else wants to be anywhere near them." He would then leer and burp while I wanted to stuff my thumb up through his palette. He was right though, for all that I depised him for it.

"This incident will be cleared up easily" Swaggered Chief Inspector Penn, "My best men are on the case, I thank you for your time."

'I thank you for your time'... who says that. And 'best men', best man more like! More like "The lowliest inspector I can find might be on this as well as fulfilling his other duties and making tea for the 'real' policeman. But I will insure that I phone him three times a day to show interest and harrass his sorry ass". Cock!

Well there's a start - Time of year and situation spelled out... next!

Role-Play Anyone?

Ok, don't shoot this one down straight away, but I've done this elsewhere and it is a brilliant and highly addictive way of provoking competitive and complementary writing...

The word role-play personally fills me with dread, I always think back to that wanker with the rubber swords on the set of Henry V who insisted on bragging about his 'martial prowess' with a latex appendage... enough said really.  The way in which an online writers role-play works is simple:

1. Agree a Genre for the impending role-play.
2. Post our characters, built to a character sheet (yeah, cringe, cringe)...
3. Outside some basic rules of character interaction (shouldn't be a problem, but in action orientated variants some people cannot understand the difference between 'drama' and 'murder' and attempt to 'kill' other peoples characters - clearly a silly idea!)
4. There is a 'gamesmaster' (I know - cringe!) - I will shave my head, chop my legs off and don a silly red smock.  I will appear from behind rocks and dispense justice if peeps get silly - right!  Fear ME... I might send Uni after you!
5. Have fun, the idea is to compete over the story line and have different perspectives on the same story - effectively then competing to out-do each-other in story twists, brilliant complexity or astounding writing...

And thats about it really, The next step is to agree a genre...

My votes for a murder mystery set in a 'to be agreed' time period and place with different PI's, police detectives etc competing to discover clues before the murderer etc strikes again.

House rules.

Well I'm glad to welcome Suneokun and Camp Freddy to the blog in which we can share our stories and give feedback about eachothers work, bounce some ideas and hopefully geek out a bit on the literary side. As Editor I will not be Editing your work (hence the title), but I will be maintaining the blog, updating links and blodfeeds and generally keeping shop. I will also be posing as illustrator for your pieces and hope to supply your work with drawings and paintings feeding off and to your ideas.

I hope to see regular writing going in here, pieces every few days; ideas, thoughts or just ramblings. All these need to be book related, if you want to fill another blog with abstractions about teacups, feel free I just won't be involved. Anything that you want to commit, however unfinished I will endeavour to feedback in the comments section and feed ideas, thoughts and positive vibes to you guys. I may even sum up the courage to write something in future but will concentrate on editing and illustrating the pages for the time being.

To sum up, I am in awe of the written word. I can ramble and put jokes together but creation of character, plot, suspense etc is something I want to learn. So please reach into your extensive back catalogues and let's start blogging.

Yours Devilin