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This thread is sort of a continuation of a previous one; consider it, "Developing story ideas through this medium... take 2."
My original idea was this, if others are interested one of us would post an outline for a story, sort of lay out a rough plot. Then we could share ideas on the development of the story and/or characters. I had also thought that each author who had interest could post follow up chapters. However, after some great feedback in the previous thread I can see the later part of my idea being problematic.
One of the respondents suggested this, "a group of authors develop a plot and some characters and locations to the point where they can start writing, and then each author writes her/his own version of tale."
So I'd like to give this, another go.
Characterization:The creation and representation of the characters should be similar or the same in the beginning for each story. As the plot develops each author would be free to stray from that initial characterization, but doing their best to keep the changes believable.
Setting: The location or setting would be consistent, but how the characters become involved in the action could easily vary based on each author's personal creativity.
Plot: Again each story would have a common plot, but each author would be free to add additional themes as the story develops. Just remember the main focus of the story.
The characters, setting, and plot will be a collaborative effort among those willing to participate, and be consistent with what develops through discussion in this thread. Each author will write his or her version of the story on a stand-alone basis, we might agree upon a minimum and maximum length.
Editing and Posting: Initially I felt the idea of an executive editor would not be necessary, however after further thought it only makes sense that we have one. Being that there are multiple commonalities to be written into each story, one author, preferably a non-contributing / non-biased author would keep us in check. Making sure that each story balances those common themes.
Once all of the participating authors have completed their story, the editor would create a new Author Account. This new account would identify the purpose of it by explaining this in the profile. Each author who has participated by writing a story would be named, collectively. Then each story would have a common introduction explaining the same details, plus a request to the audience to look for all of the versions of the story and vote on each accordingly. However the alias of the author to each specific story would not be named within the story as we normally do, thus the voting would not be influenced by any of our previous works posted here. To protect the use of our stories, we could simply imply that the copyright is owned by the newly created Author Alias.
Title:We would have agreed upon a common title, and the editor will randomly submit each story like this, ‘The Story… version 1’, ‘The Story… version 2”, etc.
Feedback: The editor, omitting the user name that provided the comment, could send all feedback given to a specific story, to the contributing author, or such feedback could be posted in this thread to be discussed by the authors as a group. I would say that the stories should not be joined as a multi-part series, but as most things this is open for discussion.
Voting: By contributing authors, it would be agreed upon that each author abstain from voting.
I have a very brief outline of the three main parts of the story, Characters, Setting, and Plot. Or we could entertain fan requests, or simply go to the Story Request section and each pick one then decide on one collectively. Through discussion here we will develop this outline to the point where we agree to commence writing. Once we have adequately discussed, discarded and added what ever we agree upon, each author will be given 4 (or more) weeks to complete their submission. The editor would have at least 2 weeks (or longer) to assess story submissions, for the commonalities agreed upon.
Once you decide if you want to participate the next thing to decide upon then, would be how to choose the outline.
Option 1) The outline that I have been thinking of, or,
Option 2) one that you have, or
Option 3) one depicted in the 'Story Requests' Forum?
To keep this as non-biased as possible, I vote for option #3.
ANY TAKERS?
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