Discuss The Rendezvous: Underground (bottom of the pot)

[Drix D'Zanth]

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You are about to witness the birth of a new project on the OB, one that?s been in the works for a few weeks now? Here?s the flash before the blast, so to speak.

The concept for this project came following a long discourse with a lit professor of mine. I feel like it?s only fair that I include the original typed concept to better explain the premise behind this somewhat ambitious project- This message was sent to everyone invited to consider joining the project: ?I am going to be creating a new project in the Anthology. One in which the real me, Jordan Fett, interacts with some of the other members here on OB. Most of the meat will be fiction, but I think you?ll find that this is profoundly non-fictional at its deepest reason. Our writing reflects our personalities and personality traits. Often we can tell how ?right-brained? or ?left-brained? someone is by reading examples of their stories. You can reflect on their personalities, and perspectives through writing. However, writing is also an escape for many of us to try and approach a new way of looking at things. A new type of empathy can be gained by discovering yourself through writing, as it forces us all to ponder the ideas that we often take for granted. It forces us to be scientists and philosophers, sociologists and historians. Writing makes us encounter ourselves. Why not use writing to encounter others? What I?ll be starting in the Anthology is an exercise in that identification on more of an interpersonal level. The writing will be realistic in that it doesn?t take place in some sort of fantasy world. And the characters I?m using are, to the extent they are willing to project, non-fictional. The events, the interactions, and perhaps even the emotions will not be real. If you are invited to join, and choose to do so, you will be asked to put yourself in the spotlight. You will be asked to create a dialogue from not only the way [i]you[/i] look at things, but the way you see [b]eachother[/b]. Yes, in writing the dialogue between ourselves, you will inevitably mis-represent the people around you; possibly quite often. But think about it for a moment: don?t we sometimes mis-represent ourselves? How often are we totally honest with ourselves? How rarely we, as social animals, are so afraid to open up personally and vulnerably. So much to our perception is really built upon how we [i]interpret[/i] the world around us. We aren?t mind readers- there is no way to be certain that our idea of a person is truly corroborative with whom that person identifies him/herself. Who knows where the story will go, or how far we?ll delve into a parallel reality. I have faith that we?ll clutch the change as it comes. But I ask that when you do join me, to honor yourself and your perceptions of others with honesty. So I ask you, before I invite you; are you willing to forfeit your anonymity your internet ?invulnerability?? Are you willing to participate with me in the real human drama? Are you willing to reveal yourself with me and (empathetically) share this story? Are you ready to meet me at the ?Rendezvous?? ? While the entire story will not take place in the fictional Rendezvous Café, it will begin and end there. It will be our home base to meet and depart, and perhaps a thematic setting which we can use to draw up our drama, the very real human drama. The plot? Well, you?ll have to wait and see what happens. ;) I am very glad of the support I?ve received on this issue by my dear friends in deciding who to include in this quite nebulous project, at first. The cast has been selected: Drix, as Jordan (himself) Shy, as Josh (himself) Ezekiel, as Jamie (herself) Gavin, as Gavin (himself) Athena, as Annie (herself) Vicky, as Vicky (herself) To all of those participating, you have my sincere gratitude in turning this project from what was originally a solo project into an exercise I can share with some of Otakuboard?s most talented writers. Expect the first patron of the Rendezvous to take his first sip shortly? Let this underground also act as a method for keeping up any questions, concerns, broadcast information that should be handled outside the story, etc. This should be your tool to not only respond to feedback (as I expect the public to react to the story here, as opposed to the anthology post), but express anything in an ?out of story? context.

[size=1][color=darkblue][b]Edit: Fixed your tags. -Shy[/b][/color][/size]
edit: you the man, Shy