Whatever Works
Comments
If you want to read more, please encourage us to keep writing. We're not asking for money or anything material, just a few words of praise. If you don't like it, that's okay too. But we'd like to know why. Comments can be posted here, on my LiveJournal. Annonymous posts are always fine with me.
The Authors
Whatever Works was written entirely by Brett Holverstott and Ryan Phillips. Brett has a website at holverstott.com. You are already visiting Ryan's website at bitman.freeshell.org.
Commentary
To me, Whatever Works will always be the story -- the culmination of countless years of thought and creation. Started in August of 1997 by two students of the ninth grade, the premise was simple: we would define no direction and let ideas flow freely toward whatever destination seemed best at the time. The result was a hilarious history of the Known Universe, containing no character development whatsoever and a long, drawn-out explaination of a possible dimensional theory. You will not have to read anything so crude.
Despite being completely undeveloped, the characters grew on us, and so we continued the story. Some eighty-eight thousand words later, maintaining the story had become a formidable challenge. Brett gave the first fateful chapter a major revision which helped to solidify the base on which this randomness was built. Yet the ideal of directionless writing that had served us so well in the beginning ultimately created a complex, tangled web of events and characters. Combined with the gradual evolution of our writing styles in the meantime, the story definitely warrented another revision. The story now has a direction, and the revision is well underway. Chapter One is available for your reading pleasure (believe me, it will be a pleasure to read), and more is on the way. You need only have patience.
Of course, there will be more incentive to work on the story if we recieve feedback from readers. Otherwise I'll just end up programming something or playing video games, and you wouldn't want that to happen.
-- Ryan Phillips, 19 April 2002
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