Dreams of the Quill

About DotQ

Dreams of the Quill began as a cross between Flak’s gallery of art and writings and Flak’s personal site. It had a blog, it had some text pages, it had some low-quality gif images. It’s much different now. It has a community, an active forum, and a myriad of content from various contributors. Flak, on October 10th, 2007, repurposed DotQ to focus on community participation, collaborative projects, and most of all, creativity. In so doing, he removed most of the “me me me” from the site’s about pages, made registration tools more prominent, and wrote a post on the main site declaring the start of a new era.

Dreams of the Quill is a site dedicated to creativity.
Flak envisioned a place where those people who enjoy “producing” more than “consuming” could congregate and … produce. Writing. Art. Game scenarios. Anything related to any of those. The purpose of the site is to set aside a place in which people may discuss and showcase their creative pursuits, receive constructive feedback, and improve their talents.

The first step toward group work and collaboration was made almost two years before Flak’s announcement with the original conception of Drawing My Heart, now a “forum project” being worked on by half a dozen of DotQ’s members. Many more steps have been taken since and many more will be taken in the future.

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Technical

Site hosted by Go Daddy. Previously hosted for free by HostMatrix (they rock!).
DotQ runs heavily modified versions of Wordpress v2.3, phpBB, and PmWiki. The layout is based on concepts introduced by the Wordpress Pool theme, though the only truly defining element it still shares with Pool would be the background image.