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This is the Conversation Forum for DNA Announcements << 10 February 2005: Talk Buffy to Close Feb 28 2005 13 December 2004: DNA Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December 0800hrs - 1000hrs GMT >>
Sorry if this query is placed wrong. Lack of info on closure of GW is confusing many members like myself. Will the closure of GW as announced also mean closure of h2g2 and the DNA hub itself? If not, who might provide guidance to GW members about options for keeping/recreating the GW community within DNA - members are currently discussing all options inclusing a subscription service.
No, the closure of one DNA site has no impact on any other site. DNA sites have closed before (Book of the Future and the Send of Place sites). h2g2 and the Hub will continue as normal.
 Is Get Writing closing then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/communitynews
There are several places on H2G2 where creative writing is welcome. The AWW (Alternative Writing Workshop) is a review forum for alternative and creative writing. The underguide selects pieces from the AWW to be promoted on the front page of H2G2. thepost is the H2G2 newspaper. There are a few other places that deal with creative writing. There is a decent explanation on the AWW page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/Writing-Alternative N
I was a member of the Book of the Future project and that was only closed because the book was published and there was really not need to continue it - the sole aim was to enter stuff for the book - closing GW it such a shame as you know - all that telant gone to the four winds...use our telants just - please don't through us away. I know you've heard this all day - I hope your job and you teams are safe - the emotion of the day my have some of us forgetting that it might affect you too... power to the pen! Mark
Thank you very much Mark! I'll have more time, hopefully to reply properly tomorrow! Good luck!
Hi Nadia, It may not be appropriate for h2g2 to take on Get Writing stories or creative writing material, etc. The situation is being looked at, but please don't take it on yourself to push this too hard, it may not be something that is supported. But who knows? Early days yet!
But the underguide is crying out for creative writting? and with hardly any input from the Italics.. *worries*
No, nonono, no bickering now. Much too early for that and no need besides. I was only trying to offer an alternative outlet for creative pieces. It didn't occur to me that there would be any conflict or I wouldn't have said anything. Sorry Peta, N
Nadia was just answering the feller's question  The style and feel of h2g2 is much different - it's more lighthearted, less workshoppy, however some people might like it. The Post and UnderGuide are both good places to get recognition for authors, as h2g2 is a pretty popular site, but I would warn anyone that it never really gained a strong, working Alternative Writing Workshop, which is what many GW authors appear to come online for. In my experience, I haven't come across a site really quite like GW though. It was a unique site. 
Traveller in Time  on his head"Hmm, for what I read of it some are afraid their works get lost. Like on the 'sense of place' sites the entries are hidden for normal view. You are redirected but the content seems to have vanished. The Book < /dna/onthefuture/ > is still available for reading. "
Sites may come and sites may go but h2g2 seems to go on for ever. I wonder why ? - IMHO Get Writing should have been launched from within h2g2 in the first place. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A1074962 When shall we see a BBCi comunity united under one banner ? 
if the worse do come we can alwats use other BBC site like get writing. We canpost flashes on Gardeners world - or H2G2 sort of thing - this is all so very, very sad...
Thank's to all who took time to respond to my naive query. I accept Peta's counsel about the danger of pushing. I fear the strength of feeling and shock among loyal - or as the DNA authors would call them, "sticky", GW community members - the insecurity and seeming lack of time to ensure continuity of the community is causing unsurprising gnashing and bitterness. After all, it will take time to set up an alternative site if the BBC decides it cannot continue to provide any DNA-based support. There are reasonably talented/world-wise folk using GW (aside from the writing!) and simply announcing this closure in a vacuum was always going to generate anxiety. Opening a channel for consultation with the members on possible alternatives, whether within or beyond the BBC Online Service after April 2005, would at least have shown some appreciation for the "sticky" community which the BBC encouraged us to form in the first place. Being advised to wait and hope is hard. Many, I suspect, are licence payers like myself.
So then - let's show them what we are all about - we are writers first, no. Between 7:00and 8:00pm this evening someone will post the nightly flash titles - come on everyone, lets all write something using the flash titles - lets show them our worth as a community that needs this voice - Cry havock and all that! Please, everyone - flash tonight - 7:00 - 8:00pm - you know you want to!
No not GW as well. 
...actually, Mark love, I dunno what to do. I dunno wot this flashing business is, but that can be explained by me being in Colorado!!!  I do not wish to see GW disappear. Writers need other writers. I hope there's something that will draw all genres through dna... h2g2's not geared towards poets, dramatists, lyricists... it's a research site, fun-loving and carefree as it often is!!! There's a lot of room to play within h2g2... but I went to GW so I could take part in workshops, so I could keep up on my writing because I will not be taking any English courses for awhile. And I bloody enjoyed the clever diversions on GW.
Come on you guys the Underguide needs you. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1103329 You can write to your hearts content and just for the hell of it. h2g2 is a community. If the effort that has gone into creating DNA sites had gone into diversifying and expanding h2g2 we would have had the blizzard by now.
Might I suggest something? Maybe someone who is familiar with both h2g2 and Get Writing (and known by the GW researchers) could put up an h2g2 entry to gather the GW people - an entry with information about h2g2 and how it works, and what alternatives there are to the Edited Guide for writing (such as the Underguide, The Post and so on) compared with Get Writing. Maybe some conversations where GW people could continue discussing things in a similar way as on GW?
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