Making A book

Black Claw · Post by **Black Claw** » Tue May 27, 2008 7:51 am

I've been giving a lot of thought on this since i've been here and getting a lot of ideas on my book. And this is probably a good idea or not but what if we each made a little story and combined them with each others to make a book of our little thoughts that everyone else made? Sice there is so many of us, we'll probably have volumes if we wanted. This is for the public to read and it would be copyrighted so no one can say they got the stories for themselves. Not like the story forum on here. It's just an idea, please comment. we could talk about almost anything on there about what we love to talk about on here and have our own imaginary stories of being a werewolf and all that.

WerewolfKeeper3 · Post by **WerewolfKeeper3** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:16 am

Interesting concept. So basically, each pack member writes a short story, and it's compiled into one major book or several? Hmmm... maybe, but right now, i've got my own stuff to work on...
(Same here. Plus, i've been trying to do a few short stories dealing with certain pack members, before writing a major one... But after that, possibly... although i doubt it'll be fair for us to both enter a story.)
Considering we're the same person, just two very... okay just different individuals, yeah i don't think that'll work...
Now whats with that "This is for the public to read and it would be copyrighted so no one can say they got the stories for themselves." Stuff? You kinda confused me...

EDIT:
Never mind, i got it. You mean the stories willbe copyrighted to their authors, and not to one single person... Yeah, i'm actually thinking about that now... i need something to jar my mind into acting...

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:37 pm

You're talking about an Anthology.

Been there. Done that. It's fun, as long as you respect the creative processes in everybody else that's part of the project.

Go for it.

darkest wolf · Post by **darkest wolf** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:18 pm

That sounds like a neat idea.

I say go for it.

Black Claw · Post by **Black Claw** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:52 am

They could be related if we wanted them to be, but that's by their own decision. I wonder how many volumes there would be?

WerewolfKeeper3 · Post by **WerewolfKeeper3** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:29 am

Focus on the first to see if it will work before you move on. Looking at the big picture might make you misstep.

Black Claw · Post by **Black Claw** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:28 am

Yeah, better.

Blue-eyes in the dark · Wed May 28, 2008 3:03 pm

Ya, it'll be like "fragile things" By Neil Gaiman. Oh this could turn out to be something freak en sweet.

Black Claw · Post by **Black Claw** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:42 pm

nice comment blue!

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:13 pm

I'm beginning to think that there is something very good happening here.

There are a number of styles; Round-robin, Central Theme, and Follow me are the the most easy to use.
In Round-robin, each writer contributes a story in an agreed-on sequence of events...like "Thieves World".
The Central Theme system uses a central theme (duh) as the base for the stories, and each writer chooses his or her character out of that central story, and writes a short story about that character as they play in the central theme...Mercedes Lackey used this form for her Valdemar spinoffs before she abandoned the venue.
Follow Me is a system where a chain of events is broken into segments and each writer takes a segment to write about. This requires a consensus of who the characters are, what they do, and what happens as a result...the "Grantville Gazette" and the "Ram Rebellion" are examples of this.
It's fun, and you don't commit to anything other than a story or two. It's also easy to do; since you can play characters off each other, like a MROPG, only in story form.
Give it a try!

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