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Sax
13:39 / 01.02.02
Just to avoid interrupting the narrative in the one sentence story, can we post notes and queries here?

[ 06-02-2002: Message edited by: Sax ]
 
 
Laughing
14:00 / 01.02.02
Great idea.
Marquis actually voiced something that happened to me: I had a great sentence ready to go and somebody beat me to the punch. I'm willing to withdraw anything I post if somebody else is just dying to put their own sentence in.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
14:02 / 01.02.02
If at any time anyone thinks the narrative has taken a serious wrong turn, please remember you can start a parallel topic. But if there's a screw up or something which needs to go because, for example, it's in the wrong thread, you can always get me to delete it in my Moderator Of Doom capacity.
 
 
Laughing
14:04 / 01.02.02
Oh, and should there be a waiting period between posting a sentence and then posting another? I get the urge to write a new line after every post but I hold back so as not to be a threadhog. Maybe we should wait four or five lines before adding another line of our own.
 
 
Laughing
14:07 / 01.02.02
And furthermore...

Nick, I love this thread/idea. This should be a regular feature, with maybe half a dozen storylines going at once.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
16:13 / 01.02.02
I'd suggest waiting only if the thread is fairly active. If it's languishing, go right on ahead - one of the things which can kill a thread is inactivity - it's self-fulfilling.

Randy wrote: quote:"Why is it that every time we start on one of these, hallucinations become a theme after about six posts?" Possibly because some people are unable to avoid breaking the fourth wall, and because collectively we enjoy the absurd so much that we can't spare establish the real before we start messing with the unreal. A hazard of un-scripted scripting, perhaps.

Suggestions: try to keep those sentences short, and remember that the story won't work as a whole if every one of them contains a major twist. Work with what's already there and what feels like coming next...
 
 
Sax
16:24 / 01.02.02
Out of interest, Nick, when you start these things (and it is invariably you) do you have a rough plot yourself in your mind, or is it a completely random beginning?
 
 
Persephone
16:32 / 01.02.02
LOL, Sax, the wind was *cold* three posts ago. What happened?
 
 
Sax
16:34 / 01.02.02
Was it? Shit. I'll go and edit! Thanks.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:59 / 01.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Nick:
Randy wrote:

Yeah, apologies for that. Just a bit narked at how it seemed to be about to turn into 'Writer's Blog' Part 2 (or is it 3?). You know, "then my tumour burst and sprouted a little puppy called Eric."

I was thinking about removing it, but figured it'd be fun to leave it in and see if anyone fancied playing with it a bit. If you know what I mean.

Good move on starting this thread, Sax.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
09:56 / 02.02.02
Sax - nope. Have no idea what will happen. I generally throw it out there and then try to keep it moving.

Occasionally with the Mason Rock stuff I tried to bring it back to something more like what we were pastiching in the first place - otherwise things like that lose coherence. At which point, I think, they stop being fun and people stop writing them.

This, though - it was pure off-the-top-of-the-head stuff. I just want to see what happens.
 
 
Ganesh
09:56 / 02.02.02
I'm not a frequent visitor to the Creation but I quite like this sort of thing. Just as long as it doesn't get overly "meta", in-jokey or Morrisonesque too quickly...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:45 / 02.02.02
I've just been reading the latest.

You people scare me.
 
 
Laughing
13:34 / 02.02.02
Is this story in the present tense, or what? Does it matter?
 
 
Sax
10:13 / 04.02.02
I'd prefer it if we kept it in one tense, the present one being the one it kicked off in. Unless the narrative as a whole shifts and demands a change in tense, of course.
 
 
Saveloy
10:22 / 04.02.02
E. Randy:
"Just a bit narked at how it seemed to be about to turn into 'Writer's Blog' Part 2 (or is it 3?). You know, "then my tumour burst and sprouted a little puppy called Eric.""

That's why I started the second thread (What I Did in my Holidays), to cater for that sort of thing. Not just that sort of thing, mind, but something 'looser', if you like. As Nick says, it'd be nice to have several going in different styles.

Depending how it goes, I might bung in new rules every now and then.
 
 
Persephone
12:44 / 04.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Sax:
I'd prefer it if we kept it in one tense, the present one being the one it kicked off in.

Oh sorry, guilty... will edit.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:15 / 04.02.02
Policy decision: there's a pretty random post in the 'Sentence'. It's got more than one sentence in it - in fact it's got plenty. Do I take it out or just let you guys work around it?

PS I whipped someone's (Saveloy's?) post-which-was-empty out earlier, for the sake of tidyiness.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:46 / 04.02.02
Will it change the flow much if you yank it? I guess that's the consideration...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
16:04 / 04.02.02
Nothing except that it's way off beam and it's there in the middle of the thing. I'm inclined to yank it because it's so far from the point of the topic - on the other hand that's not something which every poster can do, even on their own topic, and it's only something I'd contemplate in the context of a collaborative effort with obvious constraints (such as 'one sentence').
 
 
Ganesh
16:06 / 04.02.02
Whip it out, Nick.

<coughs>
 
 
lentil
10:11 / 06.02.02
ah, that explains it, i knew something had changed. two of my posts now appear consecutively, and i know i didm't post them in such quick succession.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
10:31 / 06.02.02
No. You were followed by something weird about farts, which, having about five separate sentences in it, got expunged. Feel free to alter yours to make sense if you want, or to ask me to remove the second one if you feel it's no longer relevant.
 
 
Saveloy
11:46 / 06.02.02
Sax, how would you feel about turning this into a general Notes and Queries thread for anything in the creation (or for all threads with uninterruptible flow)? Would that be cool?
 
 
Sax
11:48 / 06.02.02
Consider it done.
 
 
Saveloy
12:04 / 06.02.02
Cheers, guv.

While I'm here, would all those concerned mind if Nick deleted the non story posts in the "New Handbook..." thread? Just for the sake of tidiness and flow, really. I've edited the original post to indicate who has bagged which titles, and am happy to reserve others (either PM me or post here if you want one).
 
 
Ethan Hawke
12:08 / 06.02.02
I just want to tell Mord@nt Carnival i loved, loved, loved the "weight restriction" post in the "what I did on Holiday thread." Sheer brilliance.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:22 / 06.02.02
Double shout-out to Mordant and Todd for this double-dose of hilarity from the same thread -

quote:
Mordant Carnival

Yes, the puddle!- for in its muddiness it was as opaque as I felt myself to be, my emotions beyond the understanding of the common herd; in its gnawing coldness it was as cold as the night wind that swept my barren soul; in its transience, for it must soon be splashed away by a careless foot, or obliterated by merciless evaporation, even as I must be obliterated by an uncaring world!

Todd

But I care for this misbegotten world, and all the cruel dark and ignorant people in it, and though it pains me like the jabs of a thousand tiny slivers of glass, I must keep on truckin'.



I'm sure you did Billy C. proud...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
13:36 / 06.02.02
Okay...I'd be more than happy to tidy up the 'Handbook' thread - by the way, I think it's great - so great I'm not sure I could restrict myself to short nuggets if I got into it, hence my holding back.

Just let's have consensus on what ought to go.

Similarly, I've just tried to raise the ante in the 'holiday' topic and would suggest we discuss it here, not there.

The 'spontaneous play' seems to have the potential to become something very special so I'm going to be amazingly precious and tight-assed about it and edit like a fascist - although not without saving options so that it can be reincarnated if anyone feels I've gone wrong.

I find this really exciting...
 
 
Saveloy
15:03 / 06.02.02
Yeah, some cracking stuff in the Holiday thread, good work chaps. Good to see the Priestess back, too.

Nick> Don't worry about the length, mate, long is good. No reason you shouldn't use more than one title, either, we can always add more (that goes for everyone, obviously).
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:41 / 07.02.02
Oookay.

But let me ask you in turn to do a piece of the spontaneous play, lest it fritter away!
 
 
Saveloy
07:26 / 07.02.02
I certainly will, as soon as my creative sacs get plump.
 
 
Saveloy
11:55 / 08.02.02
Re: spontaneous play

I'm going to seem a right dinny here, but... I know who Peter Lorre is, fine, but are the other two characters real as well? Should I have heard of them?
 
 
grant
12:37 / 08.02.02
I just posted to the new Mind Control thread - at the same time Flyboy did. Well, I started writing before he posted and finished after.

The styles and stories seem utterly different - should I change it, or leave it for others to work out? (At the very least, I could change mine out of a first person narrative into third person, unless someone objects.)
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:46 / 08.02.02
I'll be really impressed if someone manages to connect the two. Especially since I suspect grant's is set a few decades after mine at least (although not necessarily). Maybe it could be like a couple of William Gibson novels, when the whole story seems to be an exercise in getting two different protagonists to meet.

It'd probably help if you changed it to the third person, yeah.
 
  

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