Vividus
What's it all about?
Fair question, some random blog on the internet pops up detailing about the unveiling and reveal of some random forum on the internet ... so how does that impact you random viewers? Easy. Vividus is Latin that has been butchered up a bit, it means something along the lines of life/living, rather fitting for a forum focused around the promotion of creativity.
We as humans live life either vicariously or in some sort of orderly fashion. Life is chaotic, its a mess, yet we all seem to live through it in some way or other. We find methods of expression, either through writing, the arts or intellectual, or otherwise physical, pursuits in life. We have hobbies and passions, things we tinker with in our spare time or wholly devote ourselves too, and that's what Vividus is focused on.
If any of you randomly browsing this recalls a young writers from which extinguished its existence almost a year ago by the name of "Hortorian - A Young Writers' Forum", then you may vaguely know me. I'm former head administrator Sk8, and I'm here heralding the news of its predecessor - Vividus Connect. I have a goal, an ambition - a vague semblance of a dream. I want to great an online creative networking system for artists and writers a like, for musicians and debaters and online role players. A diversified, strong knitted online community that is welcoming and fun for all as well as pushing in means of progressive advancement and development of our creative members.
Now, everyone dreams big - or at least secretly dreams big, but my bigger picture is currently set on the side. I want Vividus Connect to be just that - a connecting point for the creative, but first I want to focus on our development and growth as a community. Even so, I'll still be pushing our forum name and scattering it throughout the internet to gain some interest/familiarity on the net.
But I'm rambling.
Vividus is composed of four primary sections - Writing, Arts, Role Playing and General Discussion. The fifth section is the informational hub of the boards, dealing with announcements, member introductions and tech support. But allow me to give you a blip on the overall, my next update will be focusing on small details about each section and their personal attractions:
Writing Section - An area on the forums for novellas, short stories, essays, poetry and lyrics - its also home to a section for Battle Literature where members can go head to head against other members to test their literary prowess, lastly the section holds a discussion forum for all writing-related discussion. The latter of the areas also is for brainstorming, character development, plot direction, diction and more.
Arts Section - Digital, traditional, photography and graphics are housed here in, we even have a section dedicated to Music within the art section. Anything expressively creative in other mediums outside of written words go herein.
Role Playing - the art of text-based role playing, think of written video games interacting with other characters .. Very fun. Very interactive. Very helpful for individuals wanting to practice some of their skills as a writer ... or even text-based D&Der.
Lastly, General Discussion - Yes, I know, this is actually titled "Off-Topic", but I have to admit that its topics in general ranging from diversified discussion topics. Discussions can get interesting, therefore I cannot count out Off-Topic as uncreative because there is certainly creative discussions that go on here.
So that's the wrap, the little promotional bit this round ... I'll be back with more, probably tomorrow ... Or maybe the next day. Meh kitteh is now sleeping on my hands, so tis my que to stop blogging and feed her.
Oh! Right, check out the forums today, Vividus Connect!
-Sk8 out.
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