[BarryLFC]

Sometimes you can ignore all the 'rules', and it just Works.

[retired_marcias]

Getting past the reason why I am the manager is always the most tedious part of a story for me. As far as I am concerned it is totally uninteresting and just something that has to be "got past" in order to establish even a hint of authenticity to my being manager. I am definitely guilty of using the 3 most used reasons above simply because I can't be bothered fabricating a past for every story!

[retired_redheadjr]

im wondering, would it be better to show the story, match by match, rather than any rubbish boardroom stuff, i always get bored by that .

[shannon2007]

Originally posted by glamdring:
Getting past the reason why I am the manager is always the most tedious part of a story for me. As far as I am concerned it is totally uninteresting and just something that has to be "got past" in order to establish even a hint of authenticity to my being manager. I am definitely guilty of using the 3 most used reasons above simply because I can't be bothered fabricating a past for every story!

Basically, no imagination, it's why you'll never be one of the forum greats :p

[shannon2007]

Originally posted by count blake:
im wondering, would it be better to show the story, match by match, rather than any rubbish boardroom stuff, i always get bored by that .

Write it how you best feel comfortable with. Apart from the obvious spelling, grammar etc there really are NO rules.

[retired_marcias]

Originally posted by Peacemaker7:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by glamdring:
Getting past the reason why I am the manager is always the most tedious part of a story for me. As far as I am concerned it is totally uninteresting and just something that has to be "got past" in order to establish even a hint of authenticity to my being manager. I am definitely guilty of using the 3 most used reasons above simply because I can't be bothered fabricating a past for every story!

Basically, no imagination, it's why you'll never be one of the forum greats :p </BLOCKQUOTE>


True :p

I'm interested mostly in the football though - I like to sometimes bring in other aspects concurrent with the football, but there are only a small handful of realistic reasons for someone becoming manager of a football club. Imagination is fine so long as it is believable

[shannon2007]

It only has to be believable though, within the context of the story. It's why stories which open with, I was sitting at home when the Man Utd chairman phoned me to offer me a the job as manager even though I have never been involved in football, totally turn me off and I won't read beyond that because quite clearly the story will be tripe.

You can though write a story about being offered the Man Utd job without any experience, it really just depends how you do it and at the end of the day, some people will read any old crap anyway.

[shannon2007]

It's also about confidence too - the reason that, for instance, HD and myself can write stuff that is 'off the beam' so to speak is mainly because we have the confidence (or arrogance if you like) in our own abilities to pull off virtually anything story wise in this forum. Others don't have that confidence and end up trying too hard, and it shows.

[retired_lbherrera]

Having played round with FM08 a bit. I was wondering is there a call for a superleague style story? I was trying to think of some sort of twist in the way of writing it but can't yet think of one.

[shannon2007]

There's always room for 'superleague' stories. Depends where your bias lies, big club/small club etc. You could 'dispose' of a smaller league and fill it with teams that are in the game but not manageable or just go for a traditional big Euro or world league.

If memory serves me right, have we ever really had a truly successful 'superleague' story - apart from the odd 'Old Firm in the EPL'