A few years ago I once had a very successful project called ‘the Gorilla Position’ based in the period of 2006. It had several shows and what I believe to be the best pay-per-view I’ve ever written in the 2006 Royal Rumble. Unfortunately, the closure of the hosting site for that project meant it was lost to time forever as I didn’t keep backups of my work at the time. A stupid decision looking back on it but I would write on the same Word Doc and just delete the completed show when I was finished once it was posted online.
I’ve tried to crack the creative writing egg a few times thereafter but something has always come up. When I started my last thread a year ago here I did not know I would be changing jobs - for the better - fairly soon thereafter and ended up devoting a lot of time to that adjustment. A year later and free-time has presented itself and I’ve been wanting to do something creative again. Ironically I was reading ‘Be the Booker’ last week when I couldn’t get to sleep and I have it listed in a bookmark still. A few days later, I saw that it’s been revived via the backlog being represented across another platform - smart. So, naturally, you give that a read and I’m thinking that maybe this might be fun to give another go.
My goal is just to do some casual creative writing probably on the weekend. I’m planning on doing “road to pay-per-view” style recaps to begin with as I’ve always felt that the main setback for these things is people not being able to get through the “world building” phase and dealing with the existing limitations set by the stories at the beginning of the thread. This way I will both 1) be able to do some creative writing without the fear of it becoming some sort of monster effort and 2) I’ll be able to progress through to a period where my decisions and efforts have taken fruit. I would assume this is likely the case for about 4-5 months in story time.
I’ve written the first monthly recap already just to show that I still enjoyed it. It was very fun and ended up being more detailed than I had expected - as is always the case. I’m hoping for a “road to pay-per-view” recap to be done every 3 or so weeks. Pay-per-views will be in some form of standard recap form as well. I had toyed with the idea of doing the Big Four in full but we’ll see how we go. For sure, Mania 19 will be recapped rather than an attempt at a full breakdown as there are still base stories from the fed that carry over to that event.
The period we’re playing with is January 19, 2003. The night of the Royal Rumble and the event has just finished. The results are the same (except one) and some of the finishes are different with some story details added in. So, it’s worth reading the Rumble recap I post as there are nuggets of value within it. Title history page (format straight from Wolf Beast) and a standard roster page coming immediately as well.
As for the name of the thread, it’s a throwback to the lost treasure. I also believe it’s one of the coolest names for a project ever. This I guess would be a prequel to the lost tales of the original. This is volume II.
