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Post by mari on Aug 21, 2007 19:39:29 GMT -5
I guess if I tell you now after all the lengthy explaining and the very impressive figure that I understood the idea from the beginning (at least I think so ) I will become the victim of transatlantic strangling… (Deserved but please be gentle and remember that I know some mean finger-twisting tricks for such situations)My questions were more about the exact, actual way of doing it (thinking way ahead, yes ;D) Page = chapter, right? Would it be a middle-thing between your options if one person writes a chapter, leaves two possibilities at the end and then passes on to the next person? Or is this what you mean with only one person writing? Anyway, less opportunities / branches, but maybe more easily manageable? Still, huh? (Seems like I need to do a course of ‚How to express yourself clearly in English’. )I was just thinking of a less complex and less diversified way of doing this because it seems that the full version is only working if a good number of people participate: Two options at the end of each entry, but instead of branching out it stays a normal, linear story because only one author chooses one option, writes a new chapter with two option at the ends, next author chooses one etc… Of course the long version sounds like a lot more fun. (Not a much better explanation and the longer I look at it the faultier my grammar seems . Not important anyway) So, any good snippet ideas? ;D
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Post by Mia22 on Aug 21, 2007 20:44:57 GMT -5
Holy crap. Do you know what this means?! We were on the same page/wavelength/whatever you want to call it. After only 1 posting! Oh man that requires a celebration. Yup I think it was the repeated use of the word ‘branches.’ Which was perfectly acceptable English and would have worked if I’d been able to follow the thought train, which I sooo totally lost. No, not really. It’ll just be a broader round robin. Chapters/pages can be 5 thousand words or fifty, depending on your mood and what you think the page needs and you can post as many times as you want. I know your round robin has certain ppl that post a lot more than others. Our little group is good. It’s easier to communicate. Umm didn’t you just describe the long version? Were you trying to describe the short? If so I can’t see how the short differs from the long. I think you need a chart! Nope not a one. You?
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Post by insanetrolllogic on Aug 21, 2007 22:46:56 GMT -5
I freaking LOVED choose your own adventure books back in the day. Those and Animorphs were my childhood (Hey, I was a weird kid. don't judge...)
Call me when you need someone to write the death scenes. I know most of you all are squeamish about that sort of thing but it's not a real Choose Your Own Adventure story unless a path or two lead to grisly demise.
(Pft! You think that is morbid? When I wrote How to Survive a Horror Story, I kept a body count!)
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Post by sim on Aug 23, 2007 9:43:22 GMT -5
Who says morbid is a bad thing? I'd be up for adding a few chapters to a choose your own challenge; I mean, imagine the cliff potential. ;D
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Post by mari on Aug 26, 2007 10:44:55 GMT -5
Umm didn’t you just describe the long version? Were you trying to describe the short? If so I can’t see how the short differs from the long. I think you need a chart! I’m embarrassingly unable to post drawings of my own, but found a sketch (just ignore the completely unrelated labelling) Also two options given at the end of each entry, but the next author pursues only one, so it has only one story-line… Sized down version in case not much people participate – but like I said, your full version sounds like more fun. Maybe we could combine this with the snippet challenge?
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Post by Mia22 on Sept 1, 2007 13:31:37 GMT -5
I should not multi-task. Wrote several responses out in Word at the same time last week and then not all of them made it up in a post as I realized I'd left getting ready to waaaay past when I should have been ready. Now for my statement from last week: Maybe we could combine this with the snippet challenge? Snippets are supposed to be kinda mindless and quick, we shouldn’t hamper them with having to follow a whole storyline (That and we get more reading this way ). And I like the convoluted, many storyline way. That other way is nice for when we’d like to see an alternative ending, but I like the twisted storylines, we’d get dramas, romances, sci-fi’s, all in one location. It’ll be good, I promise. Slow, but good. So now someone needs to come up with an opening page/chapter. It can be totally out there (as in ITL and Sim) because each writer will twist the story in their own direction and I think it would be nice if we had a rather out there start; see what our writers are made of.
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Post by shywriter on Sept 19, 2007 22:46:28 GMT -5
HEY! Writers! It's too damn quiet around here! Updating everyone-- the snippet challenges are coming along, with posts on BBWW as a convenient place to drop off some mini scenes of M & L. Come visit!And it's not that I wouldn't be happy to try jumping in on this: Also two options given at the end of each entry, but the next author pursues only one, so it has only one story-line… But this is far too three dimensional a concept for me to catch on by use of a two dimensional presentation (notwithstanding the fine flow charts) as to how this will be manageable ... I need model and charts and many colors of markers... In the mean time: roll call? Are you with us?
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