New Year, New Era

I'm baaaaa-aaaack!

The last few months haven't seen any posts, primarily due to a rise in school activity. But I'm proud to say that we've also seen a spike in activity and success in GCW, and that has also drawn my focus away. I'm having a great deal of fun with the fed right now, so much in fact that my interest in doing anything else at all has waned.

This doesn't mean I won't continue to strongly voice my opinion on the game, I'm just going to alter my approach (again). It seems quite clear to me that PTC, as an e-fed community, is in its final moments and any attempt to salvage it or create something new is futile. This doesn't mean the game won't continue on, but the day of large-scale superstructures is finished.

So I'll continue to blog, and I'll try to update everyone on the goings-on in e-fedding and e-fedding related areas. So come here for news and opinion on the game; I'm the Bill O'Reilly of e-wrestling, without the fuck.

--First and foremost, Tom Holzerman is stepping away from his blog for a while. It's a shame, as he's the innovator of the e-fed blogs (of which now this appears to be the only one). I feel quite inadequate if I am, in fact, the last blogger standing, because Holzerman's the big dog of this concept and I'm merely a follower. I won't in any way claim to be capable of filling his void in the blogosphere, but I will do my best. Hope to see Holzerman back soon and I wish him all the luck in the world with TEAM.

--Dean has officially, permanently stepped away as fedhead of FUSE, leaving Josh in charge. I have several members on my roster who have worked with Josh in the past and have had complementary things to say about him, so I'm sure the fed is in good hands. But rapid-fire leadership changes tend to harm a fed in the short- and long-run. I still like FUSE and I really don't want to see any fed close its doors right now, because the game is thin enough as it is. However, they've got their work cut out for them, because as of now I struggle to tell you what FUSE's identity is now. I know Rhine and Rhine is awesome, but beyond that I'm lost. I fully plan to get better informed, and I hope this situation galvanizes the roster.

--I have no earthly idea what's happening in PRIME right now. That's probably a good thing.

--Dave's creatively named Creative Writing Tournament is shaping up to be a huge success over at PTC; if you're somehow reading this blog and have never heard of this, hit the PTC forums and check it out. The talent drawn to that event is sensational, and I'm sorry I didn't join in.

And it's also going to kill a chunk of e-wrestling. As people in this game are maturing, more and more I'm finding people who are losing interest in e-fedding and would prefer to simply focus on writing without gimmicks and strings attached. So, while the tournament is going to be a great success, it's also going to shift the landscape of this game of ours.

But that isn't a criticism. In fact, it's the highest compliment I can pay it. Any one tournament that can have that great an effect over such a large group of people must be doing its job. The game is in a state of flux, anyway, and the fact that Dave's had such a great turnout shows that it was both timely and inevitable. Those left in this game who want to remain a part of the community without participating in e-fedding now have the ability to do so. I think it's time to simply call PTC a "writing community" and nothing else, a place now frequented by people with a common interest not in e-wrestling, but writing alone. We e-fedders would therefore continue to have a home there, while the creative writing group could split off without leaving the community entirely. It is my sincere hope that the people who choose to leave the game do not choose to leave the community, because I've had the pleasure of getting to know many of them and I would appreciate the opportunity to continue to read their tremendous work. Here's hoping that whatever Dave's tournament leads to remains a part of PTC.

--NC-17 is posted over at GCW and it was a great show. It is a great sense of sadness I experience right now in knowing that there are few left outside of GCW with the interest to read it. However, I feel GCW is in a unique position right now to update the concept of the e-fed a bit. The fed has some wildly talented writers in its own right, and while they still love e-wrestling they, too, are experiencing a desire to broaden their writing skills. In GCW I'm hoping to emphasize those skills more as this year progresses. Either way, I feel that NC-17 demonstrates how the e-fed can remain relevant at a time when our community is going through a period of progression. GCW is going to have an amazing year in 2008, and I hope that even those of you who are losing interest in e-fedding will check it out... and perhaps join us, because it would be impossible not to have your juices flow again while working with the people on that roster.

That's about all I've got for now, but keep checking in. When I get news stories from around the community I'll fill you all in. In the meantime, thanks for reading this blog, GCW, and everything written by any community member. Let's stop worrying about the logistics of PTC and just focus on trying to keep the group of people that make it up together. We don't all have to be pursuing the same goals to work together and appreciate what we're producing. What a writer wants more than anything else is a reader, and in PTC we have a group of people willing to support everyone in their common goals. I'm done trying to force the issue; let's just reduce our goals to having fun in whatever capacity we desire and go from there.