META/LNH: And what was your favorite SW10 year?

[Scott Eiler]

On 4/3/2012 3:38 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> On Apr 3, 11:01 am, "Adrian J. McClure"<mrfantast... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> My favorite year, without question, is this one. I defintely look back
>> with fondness on the days when I first started writing, when it seemed
>> like the LNH was having a resurgence after a long fallow period. This
>> is when Tom started NHOP and Jamie did Miss Translation. Of course,
>> everything was exciting and new to me back then, but I reread Miss
>> Translation recently and it holds up just as well today. NHOP... well,
>> there was a reason Tom revised it, the original version in retrospect
>> was deeply flawed but compelling.
>
> Thank you.
>
>> There are definitely things I miss a lot about the old days of RACC. I
>> miss Jamie Rosen, who was generally a class act as well as a good
>> writer.
>
> Hear-hear!
>
>> my stories. I miss 8fold as an imprint,
>
> Okay, so it's been fallow as of late, but it's not like it's Omega or
> anything.  Who knows, maybe I'll finish the next JOLT CITY this year.
> I had it close to finished when my computer crashed in late 2010.
>
>> But for all I miss those who've gone, I'm very excited about the
>> course things are taking right now. LNH20 has opened up new approaches
>> for a lot of us in our writing and galvanized our community. I've been
>> writing more than I have in years. We've also had a lot of good ideas
>> for reaching out to new audiences and reconnecting with old writers,
>> and although that seems to have fallen by the wayside now that we're
>> all so busy, I hope we can start thinking about that again once summer
>> starts. In the years since I joined, there's never been a better time
>> to be on RACC.
>
> Agreed.

My experience with the LNH is seriously limited, but I can see how you 
might be right.

Now I'm getting the urge to play this same game with my own writings. 
What's my favorite year of Superhuman World stories?  You can actually 
find 20+ years online at http://www.eilertech.com/stories/ .  Of those, 
I can see how 2010 might be objectively the best (thank you RACC for the 
support), but I had the most fun with 2003.  For one thing, it started 
with Odin doing my laundry.

The question gets complicated because before 1995 my "continuity" runs 
through the superhero games I based on the original stories.  I never 
published the campaigns, but I did perform them live at conventions.  My 
peak would have to be 1992.  That year I had a Superhuman Control 
Initiative scenario featuring Ellipsis and Crusher Joe as renegades; it 
saw convention play during the U.S. presidential campaign.

-- 
(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

Let's take a look, if you will, at the Second Amendment of the
Constitution, which protects every American's right to shoot another
American.  This cherished constitutional right to shoot people and make
them dead is currently recognized in all fifty states, most recently
Florida.

- The Borowitz Report
(http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/03/29/an-argument-against-healthcare/),
March 2012.