Meeting grounds, open mikes, and a little boy

[pyraxis]

Apparently an "open mike" is when people take turns going to the front of a room and talking about themselves.

I found that out in a space called Hatrack. That's the other place that inspired this corner of the dreaming. It's for storytellers to come and talk about their stories. Just a few months ago, Earth time, they made a new space there, a place for the people in the stories to come and meet people from other stories. They're calling it an open mike. It's for everyone to get to know everyone else better.

I went there, 'cause I knew nobody from Karn or Ua would be able to find me there, and stood up and told them about me and the Grehti, and about Sha and UaLin.

And now I've made this little portal, they might figure out how to come here and find me, and go there, and hear all the heretic things I said. But you know what? I don't care anymore. Let them come here. This is the dreaming. I'll just jump up into the air and fly away, or go run up a tree and then make the trunk disappear so they can't climb up after me, or just open a door to nowhere and walk through it. Once you've made it to the dreaming once, you're free. Nobody from your world can ever get you again.

And meanwhile, I've got Sha to play with. I met another little boy at Hatrack, five and a half years old. His name was Caleb. Where are you, Sha? He says hi. But he can't come here, or maybe he doesn't want to, I'm not sure. Anyway, I thought the whole place was pretty awesome. We're not the only ones out there who go world-hopping.

Comments

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Hey Pyraxis, I was looking around that Hatrack place and saw your thread about wanting feedback for character interview stuff. I'd be interested in that, too. I'm not so sure about how well I'd do at that forum, since I'm interested in doing comics instead of writing and I'm just not that great at posting on forums compared to the livejournal format. Plus I think it's pretty fun to have more unstructured stuff for character interaction, and feels more natural. Like the stuff we've been doing here and at the pizza party. I guess I am proposing- how about we start a livejournal community together as a place for character interaction, the location being another blank space in the dreaming for people to build on, plus with a thread for the writers to be able to give feedback and critiques. Maybe if we have a community where anyone can join and start threads, we'd have better luck at getting more people to show up.