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Is Opensim Dying or Evolving?
It’s a question we’re all asking ourselves right now. We see grids closing. We hear all the whispers of doom. We wonder what the future holds for Opensim. We’ve been quiet at Nara’s Nook lately, but not because we depressed about the future. Summer is the time we work on our big projects with an aim to taking them public in the fall. Add to that the main server at Nook was way past it’s prime and everything had to be moved and set up on a new server. We’re back up and running so feel free to visit again. As to the question at hand: I came to…
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How to Visit Nara’s Nook Virtual Worlds
Nara’s Nook is a place where authors, readers and story characters interact in a virtual simulation. What you will find at Nara’s Nook: A community of folks who love books and storytelling: Writers, readers, musicians and artists join with us in exploring fiction and its future. Reader adventures. Writer resources Book centered activities: Book centered parties, events and community projects to participate in. How do you get there?I created a Virtual Writer’s and Reader’s Colony. It is designed for writers and readers new to virtual worlds. It’s a safe place to learn how to get around. You can meet up with other folks who love books, find a quiet corner…
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Metaverse Muses: The Oracle
A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient. One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…