Once again EmpireUpdate will focus solely on screenwriting and
related resources at the Empire site. Little interest developed in
the other areas, i.e., poetry, lyrics, plays, while traffic remains
strong for the Empire Screenwriting Resource.

EmpireUpdate settings have now been liberalized so that members can
participate more directly without moderator intervention. Your
message posts must still be approved by the moderator, but you can
enjoy the Chat, Files, Photos, Polls, Calendar, and other features
more liberally. Please check each one and see and report back if
not all is as promised (these settings can be finicky).

The Empire Screenwriting Resource, and related pages at the site,
e.g., the Magic Star of Dramatic Writing, Story Dynamics, Expand
Your Universe, will be undergoing major revision over coming weeks
and months. Among the objects will be to make the site
more "handheld friendly" (for all you PDA users), to apply newly-
learned formatting techniques, to convert the Screenwriting
Fundamentals section to a page-per-topic format, and to expand and
refine the Expand Your Universe educational section.

Individual page URL addresses will change, as part of an effort to
reduce the levels of subdirectories (among other things), so please
use the search feature if you can't find what you're looking for.

If there is interest in scheduling a regular Chat session for
members, or even just an introductory one, please post your
suggestions to the Group and we'll take it from there.