OOU Notes, Questions, and Commentary
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:56 pm
This is a general thread for me to state things from an OOU perspective, as well as a place to answer questions if people have them. Damna is still relatively young, ignoring the fact that it just got a complete overhaul, so I expect most people are just watching to see where I'm going with this.
On OZ, the Damnaticia forum was effectively dead for months. That's because I had been working behind the scenes in my spare time, mostly musing over ideas and concepts on my "other" Damnaticia forum, which is on Adam's (Destructionator's) private forum for the M3 RPG project. I'd been throwing out ideas with some very helpful commentary and advice from Dan (Dakarne), and devised a completely new magic system for the 'verse, while abandoning a lot of the old events and many of the characters from what I now call "Damnaticia Arc-1". That isn't to say that Mirela, Serghei, and Antony are gone, but the story I was telling with them is. Like with other stories, I abandoned an idea that had hit a very big obstacle, though I do intend to revisit their plot someday.
Even when I was actively pumping out the Arc-1 stories, I neglected articles and behind the scenes info. As it originally stood, Damnaticia was originally intended to be developed primarily from a literary perspective, though I think I learned some good lessons with that approach. Worldbuilding does help considerably, and I intend to eventually fully flesh out neo-Damna as a verse with lots of articles and stories.
The direction of Damnaticia really shifted around aimlessly during those months of inactivity on OZ, as it went from "dark fantasy" to "horror" and back to "dark fantasy", before settling on its present course. I'm now confident enough with this universe's direction to stick with it, so it won't end up like Imbalanced Powers, getting rivised twice and then left to rot on the face of the board because I was too indecisive to tell Arty to delete the abortion. I'm also confident enough as a writer to stick with it.
Something else I might bare mentioning is my original attempt, back in '05 and '06, at contemporary fantasy; that would be Artemis' Atlantis Rising, which despite my mistakes and various flaws in the 'verse, I feel was good for "teething" as a contemporary fantasy writer. I have a few fond memories of various AR elements, and although they are few ( ), I've revisited some of those old ideas for this reborn universe.
Foremost amongst those was The Arcane Order, which I still more or less consider to be the crowning achievement of my tenure as AR's author. The concept of TAO has been revisited during my downtime from OZ, and it is my plan to write a new TAO, with revised versions of some of the old cast, and many new additions. The new TAO actually bears only cursory similarities to the original, but working on its rebirth over the last month has been a bit of a labor of love for me.
As Damnaticia is born anew, and elements of old ideas and universes are reborn within its womb, I look toward the creation and fleshing out of a living world, and I hope you will all join me in watching it grow.
On OZ, the Damnaticia forum was effectively dead for months. That's because I had been working behind the scenes in my spare time, mostly musing over ideas and concepts on my "other" Damnaticia forum, which is on Adam's (Destructionator's) private forum for the M3 RPG project. I'd been throwing out ideas with some very helpful commentary and advice from Dan (Dakarne), and devised a completely new magic system for the 'verse, while abandoning a lot of the old events and many of the characters from what I now call "Damnaticia Arc-1". That isn't to say that Mirela, Serghei, and Antony are gone, but the story I was telling with them is. Like with other stories, I abandoned an idea that had hit a very big obstacle, though I do intend to revisit their plot someday.
Even when I was actively pumping out the Arc-1 stories, I neglected articles and behind the scenes info. As it originally stood, Damnaticia was originally intended to be developed primarily from a literary perspective, though I think I learned some good lessons with that approach. Worldbuilding does help considerably, and I intend to eventually fully flesh out neo-Damna as a verse with lots of articles and stories.
The direction of Damnaticia really shifted around aimlessly during those months of inactivity on OZ, as it went from "dark fantasy" to "horror" and back to "dark fantasy", before settling on its present course. I'm now confident enough with this universe's direction to stick with it, so it won't end up like Imbalanced Powers, getting rivised twice and then left to rot on the face of the board because I was too indecisive to tell Arty to delete the abortion. I'm also confident enough as a writer to stick with it.
Something else I might bare mentioning is my original attempt, back in '05 and '06, at contemporary fantasy; that would be Artemis' Atlantis Rising, which despite my mistakes and various flaws in the 'verse, I feel was good for "teething" as a contemporary fantasy writer. I have a few fond memories of various AR elements, and although they are few ( ), I've revisited some of those old ideas for this reborn universe.
Foremost amongst those was The Arcane Order, which I still more or less consider to be the crowning achievement of my tenure as AR's author. The concept of TAO has been revisited during my downtime from OZ, and it is my plan to write a new TAO, with revised versions of some of the old cast, and many new additions. The new TAO actually bears only cursory similarities to the original, but working on its rebirth over the last month has been a bit of a labor of love for me.
As Damnaticia is born anew, and elements of old ideas and universes are reborn within its womb, I look toward the creation and fleshing out of a living world, and I hope you will all join me in watching it grow.