Re: Hey Sam! I was wondering...
Grishny, on host 12.29.132.98
Monday, October 15, 2001, at 11:17:14
Re: Hey Sam! I was wondering... posted by Travholt on Monday, October 15, 2001, at 09:28:06:
> Myself, I'd like the latter. As I mentioned before, I want it to be serious writing. And by that I don't mean non-humorous -- but if I'm going to participate, I want to do some "real" writing (not claiming I'll do a good job, though), so I don't think I want to take part in making a parody thing. I'm having a hard time expressing my feelings here, but I think it's because I want to make something *genuine*, start with a clean sheet, if you see what I mean. Writing a parody is like drawing moustaches on movie posters, while writing something entirely new is like drawing your *own* poster from scratch. Of course, in a project like this, you'll have to work with what other people have done before you, but it's still unique.
I too am more interested in writing something that is NOT a parody. Everything I ever did with my high school pals was a parody of some sort (a parody of Star Trek; a parody of LOTR; a parody of James Bond; etc.). I think the reason I enjoyed the "Jack" RinkStory that Sentry started was that it wasn't a parody, but a genuine attempt to write some interesting and original fiction. Maybe I'm romanticizing it a bit, but I still wish we could have finished that story, and I will probably publish what there is of it on a future web site someday. > > StuffIt unzips just as well as any other unzipping utility these days. A new version came out a short while back. And there's DropZip, too, so zipping it back won't be a problem, either.
Well, I for one have never been able to successfully decompress a StuffIt .sea file on my PC at home. I've never been able to get my computer to even recognize it as a file type. Maybe they make a Windows version of StuffIt and I just don't know about it. Whenever someone sends me a .sea file, I always end up having to get someone with a Mac to decompress it for me and then email me back the decompressed file.
Grishny
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