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I feel as though I ought to say something -- there are a lot of things I ought to say. There are too many things buzzing round and round in my head just now. (It's an anniversary sort of month. A year ago my mother was in the hospital. When I prod in that direction my emotions are still as thick and numb as they were then. I don't know why I find
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Essentially, yes. It's easiest with two players, but some other friends and I have got a four-way game going. One person starts, and their letter sets out the initial rules for the game -- the setting, the date, some initial ideas for how the plot could go. Technically you're not supposed to talk about the plot of the game, or plan anything together -- you should have only as much idea as to what's going on in your co-player's world as your character does, though you can plan as much as you want on your end. Since Alessandra and I live two houses down from each other, we're hand-writing our letters, and there's a hollow tree in front of her house where we put them when we're finished. (In a plastic sandwich bag, usually, because it's been snowing fairly violently most of the week and we don't want the letters to get wet.)
The Evangeline project is my vampire novel. I started plotting it after Twilight infuriated me so much I spent two hours pacing around my bedroom and ranting to myself, and some of the things I was ranting about turned out to be part of a story. So far it's about a librarian who slays vampires. It's been over a year and I haven't really gotten very far at all, alas. At least she has family members now. (Well, sisters and a very vague mother and hopefully a father but I have seen neither hide nor hair of him thus far.)
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