World News and How You Can Help!

This is just a quick PSA to remind the site at large that the World News board is a thing and that I am but one man. I mostly document massive site events such as The Incursion, but I'd like some help with the finer points of BG's overall story.

But what can you do to help?

Well there are plenty of things.

If your character is involved in anything that you think might be newsworthy then just tell me, or any other Storyteller about it. Give us the tl;dr version of what happens/happened in the thread and try to include any information that you want subtly hidden in the news post, because remember; having your thread in the news board also advertises your plots so it might be good to get a bit of foreshadowing in there, maybe something to attract other writers! Once we have that information whoever you give it to will write the article themselves and our Keeper of The Chronicles will publish it! You aren't obligated to do this at all however, if you'd prefer to keep something secret, and it's small enough to be kept secret then a news post won't be needed.

Alternatively you can write the news article yourself (And I will love you if you do) which reduces the amount of time you have to wait before you see your thread up there on the board. It also lets you tailor the article to your own liking and all I have to do is clean it up a bit if there are any errors and pass it on to The Keeper of The Chronicle who will publish it in his newspaper! 

But how can you write your own article?

Any number of ways! It's kind of like a fun little experiment for fictional writing. You could write a straight up news article, keeping to the facts and being as impartial as possible (or completely biased if you know which techniques to use to make it SOUND unbiased) or you could write out an interview between a reporter and a witness. You could also write it as if it were an excerpt from a trashy magazine, as long as it gets the "News" part across then it will definitely be published.

Just keep in mind the perspective of the person writing it. Are they from the Seireitei? Maybe the writing style is a little sharper, militarialistic? Perhaps it was written by the Soul Society Women's Association? What would they have to say on the subject? You could even write a field report that your character hands to his/her superior! It's not technically news, but I'd publish it anyway!

Or is it from the human point of view? That's where things get really fun, trying to explain the situation from the perspective of a non-spiritually aware reporter is definitely the most enjoyable because you need to think of ways to describe spiritual phenomena in a way that would make real world sense.

For example if everybody was suddenly pinned down by reiatsu? Your article might write about a sudden mysterious and undetectable illness causing people to collapse?

But what about Las Noches?

Writing a piece of news from the perspective of somebody in Las Noches is difficult as one wouldn't expect a little paper boy hollow to throw issue #34 at a passing Arrancar. My suggestion is to write a short RP post about two Arrancar/Hollow/Both gossiping about the subject of the post.

Aside from all of these suggestions you're more than welcome to try anything else you can come up with! Maybe there IS a little paperboy hollow out there, clinging to the last memories of his human life as a real paperboy by scrawling news articles into the wall with his claws?

In any case I look forward to reading the articles you guys write.

Thanks for helping out!