I believe that I'm over 700 words in now. I also believe that it'll be obvious that I have no idea how romance works, so I'm just having fun with this.
EDIT: By the way, what do I do once I'm don with the chapter. Stick it in Gdocs and say that Meta can edit it or something?
edited 3rd Oct '13 2:33:57 PM by Sereg
There's six people signed up to go after Sereg. Applelight and CDRW, if you really do want to participate, I wouldn't have any problem with it.
Sereg: PM the text to me in some form. Either a gdoc or any other document. I'm copying everyone's sections into a master document, to make sure they all stay available if one of the authors drops off the internet for a while.
Given how the story has turned out so far, perhaps we should title the finished product, If on a sunny day a traveler.
We haven't gone postmodern (yet). I just was thinking of how that book hints at a bunch of unseen stories by including the first chapters of a bunch of (fictional) books, and our story does something similar. Because even when one author tries to maintain continuity, they still have to guess about the backstory, and the Chekhovs Guns they set out may or may not get completely ignored by the next author.
I'll just wait till it's done. It looks like it's going pretty fast now.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlaySend it to Meta Four. As for the other questions, I'm not really sure. Just do whatever you think is best, I guess?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayIt's perfectly okay to make your chapter vary wildly from the tone of the previous chapter. It's fine to focus on minor details from the previous chapter and use them to completely reinterpret what came before—in fact, that's what I did with my chapter, and what Storyyeller did in the chapter immediately after mine.
Just refrain from any plot developments that would boil down to that last chapter didn't actually happen or that last chapter doesn't matter.
...oops?
Well no, I guess I just reinterpreted the chapter before mine.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.

This is going to be good.
How many other people are after you? Japaneese Teeth? Applelight? Does Dark still want to do a chapter?
edited 3rd Oct '13 6:19:00 AM by storyyeller
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