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What We Would Like:
We would like to have a civgroup that could unite all of the writers of Apolyton, of which we have quite a few. We feel that now, when there's been a surge in activity in the stories forum, some sort of an acknowledgement should be in order. So, we would like to ask for the creation of:
The Apolyton Storywriters' Guild.Why We Would Like It:
Well, there are plenty of reasons we would like a civgroup of our own. First of all, we believe in the sense of community. We think that some sort of identification with story-writing (such as a civicon next to our names would provide) would serve well to keep our existing authors and readers coming back for more stories, and would attract new authors as well. And that brings me to the next reason.We think that it would be good to get a little more publicity for the story-writing section of the site. We attempt to put up regular news items about story competitions and such, but often times the news are either not posted at all or are delayed greatly. Either way, they have proven to be quite ineffective so far. In an attempt to bring more readers over to the stories forums, we recently posted a promotion thread in a rather populated section of the site and that had quite a positive effect. We have plenty of great authors and quality stories, so the potential is great. It's just that often times we find that we, the authors, are the only ones to read each other's writing. Our experience with an "ad thread" in another forum showed that maybe people just don't know about us, and indeed, some of the people, that came by as a result of that thread, came to stay. However, we think that it might be inappropriate to post a thread somewhere whenever we want to boost traffic, and thus we believe that a civgroup of our own would go a long way promoting the stories forum. Whenever one of us posts somewhere, the icon next to his or her name would inevitably remind people of the story forum's existence, and since our interests are quite diverse, and, cumulatively, we participate in almost all of the forums on this site, we think that this would help us a great deal.
Finally, we would like the civgroup to serve as a sort of encouragement to write. We found that our writing alone often encourages people to create something themselves. In fact, that's how I, and countless others, have started to write: I came to the stories forum, read some things, and had a great urge to write something myself. In fact, we very often hear things like: "Your story inspired me to write something too!" That's all great, but there are also some people that aren't quite confident in their literary abilities and often abandon even attempts to write. However, numerous examples showed that even people, who might not have thought they had a writer in them, are often capable of creating absolutely amazing worlds in writing. We would like to encourage such "shy" people to write and think that a civgroup membership would help them feel the support of comunity and overcome the initial fear of literary expression: the fear that the story might be no good, the fear that people won't like it. It's quite a natural feeling, yet we feel we are there to not only write ourselves, but also to help others overcome that fear and realize their creative potential. Again, we think that a civgroup membership would help here.
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