Dexter Bale
Irish Psycho
Hey guys! Newbie here, I read the rules and can I get something confirmed? I have one thread for my shows and then another for my news items? Is that correct?
Book This! - General Discussion
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Mr. Book This Section
Getting Noticed By Management
This section has two forums right?
Book This - Your Shows go here.
Book This Lounge - Your news go here.
So correct.
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
Mr. Book This Section
Getting Noticed By Management
It's past 9 o clock. It's nearlly 10. When will the entries be up?
As long as the news items are more than a few sentences long and not considered spam, it's probably better to just put it all in one thread. It would make it easier for you and for readers I reckon.
When I post everybody's PM. Which probably won't be till Wednesday-ish. To be honest, I'm willing to accept late entries. I just said today to ensure a bit of a cut off point. Anybody who wants to PM a late entry now has to be aware that I could post the PM's at any time when I get chance.
Not going to rush this. I don't want the contest to mean that people stop doing their shows. Like I said, it'll be an hour or two every few weeks.
EDIT: Just copied all PM's into a word file, need to tidy them up so it's just the entries and not any other comments. Should be a 15 minute job. Will try and get it done tomorrow. Will accept any entries until then or edited entries if you rushed it for today. Just PM them to me ASAP.
EDIT EDIT: Ten entries altogether. We'll eliminate 2 people. Get it down to 8 and then see how the voting goes.
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
I liked my WM29, but I'm a little iffy on it. I feel my main two matches suffered in the description part as I got the earlier stuff done and then got swamped with work that I had to get them up and finished quicker than I would've liked. Either way, I'm excited for this.
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
It should be fun to see the ideas people came up with.
GCB, Is there set things to judge each entry by? For example, Originality, Detail etc.
GCB, Is there set things to judge each entry by? For example, Originality, Detail etc.
Dexter Bale
Irish Psycho
Personally I'd be more into this and I can guarantee my news items are more than just a few simple lines to add another post and bump the thread! They'll be relevant!
So on another topic, I may as well introduce myself! I'm Dexter and I've been booking around various forums for a few years. If I'm brutally honest I don't think I've ever really had what would be considered a 'successful' booking project. I like to think it isn't my capabilities as a writer that is the problem but my wandering mind. I get loads of ideas and I'd be in the middle of one project and then start thinking about another or I'd book WWE due to quite a forum's reluctance to accept TNA bookings (not as in you're not allowed do them but there would be a negative mind-set). I'm not a huge fan of WWE and find their shows monotonous to write so that's always a recipe for disaster. I have came to this forum (among other reasons) to get a fresh start in the booking world.
I'm hoping this will go well and I'm looking forward to getting involved and hopefully improving the Book This! section here at WrestleZone.
The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
So JAM sent me a message the other day that was pretty much like, "Hey, come write a Book This! thread." Thought about it, decided it was way too much work for the small amount of free time I don't have, and completely forgot to respond to him. Sorry JAM... I've been reading through some, and I just don't think I can manage putting together something like Theo has going on. That thing is monstrous. Just a single episode of Raw is like 4 or 5 times the size of one of my PPV reviews, and those already take me far too long.
Thing is though, I really want to. I don't think I've ever told anybody this, but I was a terrible student in grade school, because I got bored in most of my classes from lack of being challenged, or material I just didn't find interesting. So basically, to occupy my time I would just book wrestling shows. They started super basic, with just names of wrestlers and matches I'd want to see. I'd do months and months at a time, not being able to remember PPV names and just making things up. Remember I was probably 11 at the time I started this; the internet wasn't a thing I was accustomed to, and I was still hiding my pro wrestling interest from my parents, who didn't want me watching violent TV.
Eventually it got to the point where I was hand writing out promos, and filling entire notebooks with storylines. I would just sit through an entire 45 minute long math class, and book that week's episode of Raw. And of course, this was before I knew anything about the IWC, or that there were actual people that wrote TV shows and did pretty much exactly what I was doing, but making hundreds of thousands of dollars doing it. And I kept doing that pretty much until I graduated high school, and stopped having a reason to be bored in classes. When I got to college I just wouldn't go to stupid classes, and I'd play WoW or watching wrestling. Turns out my mom threw away all my old school stuff a few years ago, including literally 78 spiral notebooks full of booked wrestling shows from 2001-2008.
I don't even think I'm that good at writing them out; the creative aspect of booking matches just really intrigued me. It wasn't about the matches themselves, just being the booker and saying "ok...this week we're going to do this and this to set up for the PPV". It's like a drug. SO I'd like to do something, but I don't have the free time to get addicted to this shit again. I was wondering, has anybody ever done a Book THis! thread for just a single Superstar? I was thinking about making a thread called "WWE Superstars: Jack Swagger 2013" and making a thread completely dedicated to his return and career in 2013. Basically do everything you guys are doing, but only focus on his matches and promos and whatnot for a few months. Then maybe branch out to a second guy, and make sure there's continuity with the first? Maybe by the end of the year I'd have five or six separate characters booked, with matches and storylines intermixed with each other.
I feel like that's something I might have time to do. What do you think?
Thing is though, I really want to. I don't think I've ever told anybody this, but I was a terrible student in grade school, because I got bored in most of my classes from lack of being challenged, or material I just didn't find interesting. So basically, to occupy my time I would just book wrestling shows. They started super basic, with just names of wrestlers and matches I'd want to see. I'd do months and months at a time, not being able to remember PPV names and just making things up. Remember I was probably 11 at the time I started this; the internet wasn't a thing I was accustomed to, and I was still hiding my pro wrestling interest from my parents, who didn't want me watching violent TV.
Eventually it got to the point where I was hand writing out promos, and filling entire notebooks with storylines. I would just sit through an entire 45 minute long math class, and book that week's episode of Raw. And of course, this was before I knew anything about the IWC, or that there were actual people that wrote TV shows and did pretty much exactly what I was doing, but making hundreds of thousands of dollars doing it. And I kept doing that pretty much until I graduated high school, and stopped having a reason to be bored in classes. When I got to college I just wouldn't go to stupid classes, and I'd play WoW or watching wrestling. Turns out my mom threw away all my old school stuff a few years ago, including literally 78 spiral notebooks full of booked wrestling shows from 2001-2008.
I don't even think I'm that good at writing them out; the creative aspect of booking matches just really intrigued me. It wasn't about the matches themselves, just being the booker and saying "ok...this week we're going to do this and this to set up for the PPV". It's like a drug. SO I'd like to do something, but I don't have the free time to get addicted to this shit again. I was wondering, has anybody ever done a Book THis! thread for just a single Superstar? I was thinking about making a thread called "WWE Superstars: Jack Swagger 2013" and making a thread completely dedicated to his return and career in 2013. Basically do everything you guys are doing, but only focus on his matches and promos and whatnot for a few months. Then maybe branch out to a second guy, and make sure there's continuity with the first? Maybe by the end of the year I'd have five or six separate characters booked, with matches and storylines intermixed with each other.
I feel like that's something I might have time to do. What do you think?
I was going to do something similar HGR, by just booking one superstar on the Road to Wrestlemania - it seems like a good idea to get some good ideas down without it soaking up a lot of free time like a full blown project would.
You're obviously a good writer so it would be interesting to see you put up something like this. If you booked every promo/match for a dream feud or followed the career of a rookie in the WWE, that would be great to read.
You're obviously a good writer so it would be interesting to see you put up something like this. If you booked every promo/match for a dream feud or followed the career of a rookie in the WWE, that would be great to read.
The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
The problem I find with writing for rookies is that you simply don't know what they're capable of. A big reason that these threads are so fun to read, is that people like THeo capture the characters so well. When Punk is cutting a promo, you read it in Punk's voice and style, and it drags you in. If I were to start a thread on a rookie character, and then that character began to grow in a totally different way in "real life", it just wouldn't mesh.
The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Actually, what I think I'm going to do is create a Book This! thread to follow a specific title. So instead of doing a Jack Swagger thread, I'm going to do a US Title thread. Follow Cesaro on Raw, then to Smackdown, through his various feuds.
Not really, personal preference.
For me, I'll be looking at ideas that interest me first and foremost. Would I buy that PPV? I'll also be looking for something different. If two people have written similar quality entries but one is a match I've never seen, I'd go with the different one. Being picky, I'll also be looking for formatting, clarity and spelling and grammar. IMO, they're important parts of booking a show I want to read. As far as the results, I'm not too interested in them as long as the match makes sense and there is a solid reason for the victory.
I completely understand that others will focus on other details. We all have different ideas of what makes a good booker. Like we all have our own different ideas of what makes a good musician on the X-Factor. Which BT Factor is in no way affiliated to ...
What are people's thoughts on people exceeding the word count massively? The reason I said 2000 words was to keep it succinct and easy for people to read quickly. We've got two that are well over 3000, one nearly at 4000 words. Do we leave that as personal choice?
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
Having not looked at the BT Factor entries yet i'm guessing one of those people is me. If so in my defense I don't have a program to do word count for me and isn't it better to have too much detail rather than not enough?
Personally I wouldn't hold that against people, If the extra detail doesn't make it suck.
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
I skimmed all the entries, Will be sending in my votes probably tomorrow after I take another look at every entry.
I'll be voting based off details, Realism, Originality and Overall Quality.
I'll be voting based off details, Realism, Originality and Overall Quality.
Absolutely. Never said they weren't. Mind you, I never said they were either. Should go and edit that in!
Skairipa Matrix
3 Time Elite Openweight Champion
Don't give them a first place vote then. I did try to keep it to the limit, just had no way to check it. If I move on (which hopefully I do) I'll work on keeping to the word limit.
Da Prophet
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Nobody did CM Punk vs. The Miz like I had planned? Lame.
I'm supporting Peep/Theo during this thing. That's my 1 and 2 vote for this round.
I'm supporting Peep/Theo during this thing. That's my 1 and 2 vote for this round.
