A Call to Pens
In days gone by, a sullen figure trudged across the field of wordcraft. Megalomania flourished. Self promotion ran rampant. Myopic fools ran this way and that, seeing only their own meager creations. A deep sadness arose within the man, gnawing away at his hope for a better world, a world of cooperative creative enterprise and mutual assistance.
Rather than skulk away in lonely defeat, he cried out to the ether of the interwebs. A challenge was issued. Tenets were espoused. A condemnation or two may have been intimated. The mantle of Grand Awesome Marshall was presumptuously assumed. Upon a mountain of bombast and indignation the banner was unfurled to flap in the breeze of imagination. Upon the standard brightly blazed the letters that would come to signify so much with so little: LoA.
Much to his general surprise, writers, valiant and true, came to the erected standard. They pledged to abide by principles of the newly born League of Awesomeness. Together they shouted, “We will look outward, see the works of others, and comment constructively upon them!” With a voice of thunder the masses intoned, “Our works and our blood shall run together, sequel upon sequel, prequel upon prequel; the lone series be damned!” In a great exhale of aspiration and audacity, the league proclaimed, “We will be awesome!”
The time has come once again, dear friends, to raise the standard. Come one and come all. Bring your awesomeness and add it to the rebirth of legend. Pledge to abide by the principles of Commentation, Cooperativity, and Awesomeness. Be one of us. Join the newly reformed, the slightly renamed (for copyright purposes), the utterly incredible, the League o’ Awesomeness. Some join overtly, by a missive to the Grand Awesome Marshall (me), or you may consider yourself a member purely by virtue of your own awesomeness. Some proclaim their membership with ‘LoA’ on name or comment, but you may just as well scream your allegiance through awesome acts.
The League o’ Awesomeness is not a label; it’s what you do. Membership is not on a roster; it’s in your heart.
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