Well I've only been a member of the site for a few months; but I've been a voreaphile almost my entire life. You guys are beyond awesome, thank you all from the bottom of my heart! I hope to continue enjoying your art; stories; quirks; and most of all your company for a very long time. I really hope to get to know more of you closer, and make many new friends here as the years go by... so without any further adieu; Happy Halloween Eka's!!!

Gonna try to post something here every time I upload a story. May or may not be related to that story.

One important part of writing is what point of view you take, and what person you tell it in. Assuming for the moment nobody's trying to write a 2nd person story (as amusing as that might be as an experiment- hmm, something to ponder for later) pretty much every story will either be first person "I did this, I said," etc. or third person "The monster roared, Mister Morton talked," etc. These are hugely different and affect everything else in your story. First person instantly limits your perspective on events to a single place, and when that perspective character dies, the story's over unless you want to hot swap to third person. On the other hand, I think you can get a lot more visceral immediacy out of your writing when you set it up subconsciously as being something that happens to you- it's as though you're narrating your own fantasy rather than standing back...

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