I'm not sure if I'm much of a writer, but I could probably do a bit once a few people have contributed.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau Project@Irish One way I think we had in mind of writing this was through P Ms and collecting them all at the end, depending on whether we go with "Next person only sees what the previous person wrote" or not.
edited 25th Jun '13 7:55:06 PM by crowlover
"Don't worry, murder is a sign of affection." - An amalgamation of Dunsparce@Irish Yeah, right. We'll work on signups and an order that we can either put in a doc or in this thread.
@Dark I think it's Celestia/Octavia and I don't have any objections to keeping it that way if no one else does.
edited 25th Jun '13 8:00:30 PM by crowlover
"Don't worry, murder is a sign of affection." - An amalgamation of DunsparceCan I join? Ordinarily, I'm terrible at writing, but an excuse to be deliberately ridiculous sounds fun.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayHere's my suggestion of how to do this:
1. Create a google doc for signups. We can use that to determine the order.
2. Each person writes a set amount (I'd say 500-1000 words, it's enough to have some progression, but not so long that it'll be too much trouble for people to fill the quota) and adds it to the gdoc.
3. Once we decide that the story is done we upload it to somebody's fimfic account and hilarity ensues.
Also, I think it would be good to have a few guidelines to make sure we don't go too far off the rails, at least for this fic.
My suggestions would be stuff like:
1. Content should remain PG-13
2. No god-moding the story; i.e. no All Just a Dream or Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies stuff. It has to be a good faith effort to actually continue the story.
Reaction Image RepositoryRight, that could be a problem. Although we could probably find ways around it. The thread itself isn't exactly conducive to signups or continuations.
Reaction Image RepositorySo is it ok if we write our section in a completely different style just for kicks or stuff like that?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWhat, like a section that suddenly shifts from 3rd person omniscient to stream of consciousness? I imagined the style shifting as the story progressed as everyone writes differently anyway, so I think it would be fine as long as you try and remain true to the core themes that the group might agree upon at the start.
Keeping some sort of google doc or having some sort of central authority who people would PM to sign up who then spreadsheets the whole thing and informs others when it's there turn could both work well I think. Though in the case of the latter, it'd be a bit more involved as they'd have to be pretty consistent in sending notices and updating the sheet.
edited 26th Jun '13 4:21:58 AM by Thirikal
This sounds like it could be fun.
On thing I have to wonder though, because I know all of us write in very different ways - well beyond style - would there be any kind of 'control' over where the segments are allowed to go, or is it just a free for all?
Like, for example one person ends their segment in such a situation where it looks like Tavi is about to meet Celestia or something, and the next person decides to latch onto some random detail in the previous segment and pull her off on a political adventure for a while - presuming that that still manages to retain a setup where it could lead to shipping, would that be acceptable, or would focus be preferable?
I dunno if that's a good example, but I'm sure you get the idea. Some of us focus on characters in our stories, others on plot, and others on philosophy and symbolism and the like. It's almost inevitable one person is going to wind up going off the rails to some degree.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.

So continuing our discussion from the Western Animation MLP thread, I've set this space for us all to share as we develop the story. If I remember correctly, the initial request was to create a Celestia/Octavia 'Ship fic. Do we want to keep this a the core of the story in cases where the genre may change, because I can imagine scenarios where things would become rather forced.