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Ended April 9, 2021 • 15 Entries • Created by VerityMonet
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Don't know how to delete a challenge
Instead of...
brainstorming what the books going to be about...
Let's make it a little less restrictive than that, eh?
I'm a pantser. Planning is only something that happens in my head, not in paper and those often get overwritten when my writing goes off in unexpected directions.
There's the fun, you never know what you're going to get, so, how about instead of brainstorming the topic of the book, we just try to decide on the opening scene?
Time, location, season, weather and characters and move on from there?
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spike1
@VerityMonet tag

VerityMonet
That sounds like a good idea but who writes it.

VerityMonet
I'm starting to visualize and this seems like a good Idea. We all decide the opening scene together and then we pick one person to write it. Then the same thing next scene but with a different person. Writing styles is a problem but we'll figure it out. I'll see what I can do to make this happen.

spike1
I think once the first part's been written that should be enough of a prompt for the next. Should be important that the person to do the next part has read all the previous ones in order to keep the story consistent though.

spike1
Sorry for the mass tag, hope you don't find it too intrusive.
There's a challenge in the process of forming, another one of those collaborative ones, where each person takes turns adding to a story.
As this one seems a little more ambitious, and the challenge creator's tagged all her followers, I'm tagging all mine too.
General idea so far, is, once we've got enough people, we bang our heads together to hammer out a first setting, where, when, who, etc and then one person writes a chapter... Well, there's no point in going into the detail. The challenge is here, there are four posts with a few ideas, so...
If you like it, the idea that is, read them and feel free to add to the comments. :)
(Oh, as I'm here anyway, and I didn't realise just how many followers I'd got, might as well try to use 'em... If any of you appreciate the kinkier side of fiction, please, if you could give me a follow on twitter... I've set up a twitter name there using a pen name for the... ahem... not safe for work type stuff... @AldanHewell. I've only got 21 followers so far and I need as many as possible, before I try publishing anything significant.)
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GLD
Pantsing could be fun, but remember that every writer is different. Some writers just CAN'T write a story without planning it through. When it comes to group projects, the common ground has to be found so that the pantsers can pants and the planners can plan. :-)

spike1
@GLD It'll be a good exercise for the planners, then, won't it? :)
See if they can write their way around spanners thrown into the works by the pantsers or go with the flow and see where it leads.
Seems to me, each new chapter will be a new start point. If they need to plan, they can just plan their chapter.

Mnezz
@spike1 :) sounds like a plan. Let me read the other entries, too.

ValiantRaptor47
I imagine that some planning would be required to avoid an incomprehensible mass of literature, but from reading your work and he work of others on this site, I can safely affirm that a loose arrangement would be quite interesting, as you said. Thanks for the tag. (:

GLD
Indeed. @spike1 Good points. :-)

nightscribbler
Speaking for the ones who are plantsers at heart (of which I am one), I think it might be good to strike a nice compromise between the two. XD