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Are You Ready to Indulge Yourself?
We’ve been busy, very busy.
Behind the scenes of our daily life, we plot and connive, exploring millions of ideas running through our heads. Like Jekyll and Hyde (or Luke Skywalker and Han Solo), we’ve worked night and day, whispering in hushed tones while we tweak our secret to perfection, gleefully enjoying ourselves as we build a brand-new venture in the online world.
It’s time to tell you what we’ve been up to. Are you ready? We are.
Indulge Your Imagination
Our first venture is a brand-new creative writing role-playing game. This fantastic fictional world hitting the blogosphere on May 28 lets you escape reality, run wild in the realm of your imagination, and free yourself from daily stresses, if only for a little while.
The best part? You’ll learn how to be a better creative writer without even realizing it. You’ll be able to:
- Hone your fiction writing techniques for better dialogue and description
- Practice new forms of creative writing to make your novels leap off the pages
- Observe the effects of your writing and get instant feedback while having fun
We’ve taken our love for creative writing and our experience in role-playing, and we’re offering it to you. Come play after a long day. Take a break from your work when your mind needs a rest.
All you need is the willingness to let your imagination free. In a collaborative writing environment that uses a character you’ve created, you’ll take part in a never-ending story full of drama, excitement, humor, romance and mystery.
But we warn you – it’s addictive. You’ll get a taste, and then you’ll want more… and more… and we’ll be there to give it to you.
Places are limited. Contact us for more information on how to join. Our creative writing role-playing game launches May 28, so get ready to escape reality.
Capture Your Creative Writing
We’d be remiss if we didn’t back up our new creative writing role-playing game with a place where you can capture fantasy in your hand. That’s why we’re launching a new blog that covers creative writing and role-playing topics to help you learn strategies, techniques and explore ideas.
You’ll find:
- Monthly contests you can enter to win great prizes
- Tips, tricks, hints and advice on creative writing and role-playing
- Discussions about tricky issues to help you overcome obstacles
- Ebooks and resources that teach you how to role-play
- Interactive opportunities with creative writers just like you
Everyone’s welcome to join in the discussions and ask questions or just simply visit, read and learn. From fantasy to romance to drama to mystery, we’ll help you to capture fantasy and escape reality – all in one.
Get ready for our double launch on May 28 – and stay tuned for more details from your favorite sharpshooter duo.
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@ Tei – That’s because you don’t have Subscribe to Comments yet. *ahem* And I’m trying to figure out what was dirty. My stable story or the fact I did shameless promotion?
I believe it may have been the phrase “on the receiving end of hitting something.” I mean. Just possibly. You might have had me at ‘riding crop.’ I’m easy that way.
I shall now go back into my hole, where the Men can’t get me. If it makes you feel any better, I am spending today transcribing some insanely boring audio. Want to know why automating your NMS software is a good idea? ME NEITHER.
Tei – Rogue Ink’s last blog post..War on English: Bad Copywriters
I’m lacking in the brains department on this one, too. I don’t see Tei’s “dirty”.
Color me impressed. I just flashed back to an episode of Highlander . The villainess is on the beach doing her best impression of a damsel. It works on Duncan, but Methos tells her, “I’m from before the Age of Chivalry. Pick up your sword, bitch.” Okay, not an exact quote, but I’m not geek enough to remember the exact words (and he should have said “bitch” if he didn’t).
Ouch backatcha. I’m new to the blogosphere…off to figure out how to turn the 6 blogs I read into a fairy tale longer than a paragraph….
April’s last blog post..What Flavor Is Your Cheesecake?
How many people are going to be in the same game together? It seems like if we have too many people, it could cause problems, so I’m curious how many people this game can hold?
@TuxGirl: Twenty people is about the maximum we can handle, so the first 20 people to get their characters in and approved will be the first group to play. After that, everyone else on the waiting list will be notified as spaces open up.
There’s a surprise. First a graphic of a woman being attacked by a man, and now a naked woman in shreds of materials. Well, the visual message about what the sites are about is pretty clear. Congratulations on your lack of originality and promotion of stereotypes. Just what a creative writing site should be about.
@ Bella – You have quite the selective perception going on. The woman in the other image wasn’t being attacked by a man – there is no sign of violence or fear. Subjectiveness or your own past experiences may be clouding your opinions.
In this picture, the image is tasteful, unrevealing and completely artistic. Since when did the human body (male or female) become distasteful and a stereotype? Also, we’re not gender biased. We have images of men on the site as well – artistic, tasteful and nothing graphic at all.
And both Harry and I fully believe that creative writing involves one very important aspect: creativity. Which is what these images stimulate. Most of our readers appreciate that we choose photos that evoke emotion without being graphic or distasteful.
We have open, tolerant minds – do you?
Oh, bloody hell.
Bella, seriously. The Men with Pens are fun-loving geeks who, if you browse around through the posts for awhile, have delightful things to say about the womenfolk in their lives. I’ve been playing the RPG with both of them, as a woman, and nary a voice of evil putting-down-o-the-womenfolk have I heard. Chill out.
If you want to spend some time discussing stereotypes, I’d like you to find an equally artistic fantasy picture featuring a man on the web. Seriously. Artists prefer to draw women. Does that make them prejudiced? Not the argument of the day, but if James was looking for a truly stunning fantasy photo, the odds are pretty high that it would feature a woman.
Actually, that’s your challenge. Right now. Go find me an equally tasteful fantasy pic of a naked dude, and I’ll concede the argument. Because believe you me, I have tried.
Tei – Rogue Ink’s last blog post..Save your world. Write.
Tei issues a challenge. Of course, I have other things to do (like actual work), so I immediately get right on it.
http://69.89.31.120/~risqueso/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dennis-dean-nude-male-with-grapes1.gif
The human body is beautiful! There are some I’d rather look at more than others, but we are all marvelous creations. The image on this post is great and screams “fantasy”. Hey, maybe “Tell Her Story” could be the next writing challenge…or maybe not.
April – BrewBQ’s last blog post..A Sloggy, Bloggy Tale
Well, I think Tei’s idea of fantasy was flowers, ribbons and bubbles… but… uh…
I should really leave the commenting to Harry from hereon out. Bro? Your turn, buddy.
April: I adore you, but that, darling, is a beefcake. I did say tasteful, right? I did!
Which generally falls under the category of ‘things-I-would-not-be-ashamed-to-have-my-mom-see-over-my-shoulder”. Like Michaelangelo’s David. Actually, that was the only period I came up with. Lots of tasteful male nude art back in the Renaissance. They were pretty fantastical too. Except they didn’t have ‘fantasy’ then, they had ‘mythological’. I’m still unclear where the line came in.
Tei – Rogue Ink’s last blog post..Save your world. Write.
I was going to say the frame’s kinda tacky, and I sure as hell don’t want any of those grapes…
What can I say? I think this world is far too PC and everyone is overly sensitive to a million things. No one knows how to have fun anymore, or make a joke for fear of the villagers coming at them with torches and pitchforks.
We’re not going to change the way we do things.
I willfully ignored the “David-esque” in favor of “Grape Guy”. What can I say? I hadn’t had a good laugh or a good cup of coffee all morning. Sometimes the line between “tasteful” art (visual and other media) and…everything else is extremely fine. Other times the trip across the line requires sturdy boots, provisions, and a strong will…and a cast-iron stomach.
Harry reminds me of a scene from “Compromising Positions”. On seeing pictures of a housewife with produce (those kind of photos), one character quips, “I must remember never to try her coleslaw.”
April’s last blog post..A Sloggy, Bloggy Tale
Oh, look! Grape-Nuts!
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue
BWAAAAA HAA HA HA!!
Oh, me. ::wipes tears out of eyes::
Kelly, will you marry me?
Who’s a sucker for a pun? ME.
Tei – Rogue Ink’s last blog post..Save your world. Write.
*slaps forehead* Oh jeez…
Kelly, that was too funny. It’s the laugh I’ve been trying to achieve all day, and I get to have it again every time your comment pops into my mind. Thank you!
…How are you with coffee?
April’s last blog post..A Sloggy, Bloggy Tale
Tei,
I knew I could count on you.
How come all the proposals I get are from ladies?
Do not answer that.
So I go on a search for tasteful male skin, because I love a good click here (no there isn’t one, that’s how bad it was), and all I get is red cheeks and red ears and oh my goodness guess who never looks for anything of that sort on the Internet.
I’ll be blushing ’til next Wednesday.
Love you, too, dear. No more challenges for today, okay?
I need a glass of wine to calm down.
Ahem.
Later,
Kelly
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue
@ Kelly – Oh come on. You knew you were peeking through spread fingers.
James,
That’s why the cheeks are so red.
I didn’t say I didn’t look today, I just said I haven’t previously. Looked. On the ‘net.
It’s nice to reminisce.
Oh, dear…
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue
*crosses arms and arches a casual eyebrow* Mmmhm. The Internet. And you’ve never looked. Mmmhm.
James,
Not to put all chicks in with me, but generally, chicks have better things to do with their time than type “tasteful male semi-nude” into an image search box for Tei.
(I yelled back, “I typed SEMI !” It didn’t listen.)
Like make money, feed kids, live RL,… Wait. I don’t have a RL. I think up blog posts on dates, for those of you who haven’t visited me at MCE lately.
Besides, seen forty, seen ‘em all.
Later…
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue
@ Kelly – I read that post. Been thinking on a reply all day lol
Something tasteful, I hope.
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue
Where’d my darn emoticon go?
Too late…
Kelly’s last blog post..3 Essential Points for the Business Bilingue