Hidden Gem spotlight: Story Corner Edition
Welcome to the new story corner edition of the hidden gem spotlights.
Let’s start simple, what is this all about? I assume you’ve seen or at least heard of the hidden gem spotlight for the character build group. Well, earlier this year Dragonborn declared that he and the hidden gem team would like to see the format spread its wings and cover some of the other groups. I volunteered and here we are. However, a different group means a different approach.
First of all, the story corner’s core functioning is completely different from that of the character building group; we function on a pack hierarchy and drunken cannibal hippies, or utter chaos if you prefer. The CB group is driven by a healthy amount of competition and a ranking system that allows people to find builds that fit their tastes and possess a certain quality. This ranking system however has its shortcomings and this is where the hidden gem spotlight comes into play. It allowed for underappreciated builds to rise to the top even after they had been lost in the flows of time.
Not only does the story corner not have such a ranking system and let’s be honest we would probably hunt down the host that would install such a thing with pitchforks and torches, oh and silver blades in case of werewolves; the story corner does not have as big a scale as the CB group either. If a blog post of ours would ever reach the fabled legendary status from the CB group, we might as well all go home and send that writer to an editor.
In short it becomes very difficult to decide what a “Hidden” gem would be in our little community. Sure I could delve into the archives every few weeks and see what I dig up, and while I certainly intend to do so, I would like to honour some of the still active writers as well. This is where we reach a dilemma as most stories that have some degree of quality will tend to have a following of somewhere between 6 to 10 people at least. And this can be considered the norm for most story corner related affairs, so what would be considered as hidden?
I wouldn’t have a clue.
So instead of painstakingly trying to find out what would qualify we’ll just be having a look at the not specifically hidden gems. Sometimes that will be long stories, sometimes short stories, and sometimes poems (don’t expect a lot of those, I suck at evaluating poetry), and in some cases all three. Let’s start shall we?
(Check the tag
)
Hidden Gem spotlight: Story Corner Edition
Welcome to the new story corner edition of the hidden gem spotlights.
Let’s start simple, what is this all about? I assume you’ve seen or at least heard of the hidden gem spotlight for the character build group. Well, earlier this year Dragonborn declared that he and the hidden gem team would like to see the format spread its wings and cover some of the other groups. I volunteered and here we are. However, a different group means a different approach.
First of all, the story corner’s core functioning is completely different from that of the character building group; we function on a pack hierarchy and drunken cannibal hippies, or utter chaos if you prefer. The CB group is driven by a healthy amount of competition and a ranking system that allows people to find builds that fit their tastes and possess a certain quality. This ranking system however has its shortcomings and this is where the hidden gem spotlight comes into play. It allowed for underappreciated builds to rise to the top even after they had been lost in the flows of time.
Not only does the story corner not have such a ranking system and let’s be honest we would probably hunt down the host that would install such a thing with pitchforks and torches, oh and silver blades in case of werewolves; the story corner does not have as big a scale as the CB group either. If a blog post of ours would ever reach the fabled legendary status from the CB group, we might as well all go home and send that writer to an editor.
In short it becomes very difficult to decide what a “Hidden” gem would be in our little community. Sure I could delve into the archives every few weeks and see what I dig up, and while I certainly intend to do so, I would like to honour some of the still active writers as well. This is where we reach a dilemma as most stories that have some degree of quality will tend to have a following of somewhere between 6 to 10 people at least. And this can be considered the norm for most story corner related affairs, so what would be considered as hidden?
I wouldn’t have a clue.
So instead of painstakingly trying to find out what would qualify we’ll just be having a look at the not specifically hidden gems. Sometimes that will be long stories, sometimes short stories, and sometimes poems (don’t expect a lot of those, I suck at evaluating poetry), and in some cases all three. Let’s start shall we?
(Check the tag)
Other people around here can write about the stories which you haven't read, so it won't be solely up to you to gather the material.
Even if I can't always get to it right when I want to.
