[Bigfoot]

Originally posted by Rocket Sheep
Very messy when they explode too... I've heard of it raining frogs and fish and cats and dogs... but never offal.

Just watch out for the black puddings :eek:

As for the stories, can anyone join in?

[kater]

Your best bet is to read the 'About this section' thread, or if like me you wanna just write :D - contact whoever started the thread by private message and ask to join, or start your own one - either way its a safe bet you'll get a good reaction. Welcome and enjoy :)

[Rocket Sheep]

Oh yes please Big Foot. Join in!

The Anthology of Evil Tales has its rules in the first post as do a lot of the other threads. Just add your own evil tale to the anthology.

Some of them are on-going and require you to read what has already happened (making the ones with less posts more appealing) before you attempt to further the plot but everyone is happy to have fresh writers join in. Stories generally get left to a few dedicated writers who can keep tabs on the plot and as long as you don't twist it illogically or blow it to pieces they'll be pleased for a little help. That's why we keep emphasising "Collaborative": working together... altho... if you want to start a story where the rule is to work against the previous writer... feel free.

Please put your foot in, test the water.

[Bigfoot]

Thankyou both, you are both darlings....

[An8el]

A little known fact is that...plain old flour is in constant danger of exploding when suspended in the air. Honest.

[Solaar]

Hey - I want in around here.

What's a guy gotta do to sign up???

Other than make explosives.

Solaar
tick... tick...

[Holbrook]

Start a story and cross your legs! errr fingers......

[Solaar]

Start a story and cross your legs! errr fingers......

Hmmm, well I was sat in a dark tavern and a hooded man told me to ask you about it.

Name of Jess? Juss? Jossa?

Solaar
wracking the brain cell

[seeberger]

By this time, you've probably seen my thread, Idylls of Chimere.

I created it with the intent of writing non-traditional fantasy. Each new post is a new chapter in the story, and what I'm trying to do is play off traditional ideas and give some reality to them. So for example, the great evil of the story is never actually vanquished (Megoliath) - it just becomes part of society, and so life revolves around it. Heroes never really conquer it, but instead become heroes through a sort of Chuck Yaeger style, dying, and then getting posted up with a portrait in the local tavern. It becomes a sort of running joke.

I want to expand on it, giving credence to other traditional things, like dragons, elves, dwarves, goblins, and if a fantasy world were actually real, what it would be like.

The idea is that this guy, Balae Mengu, happened upon an island where he fell into a deep sleep and was transported into another world, where he lived for over 3000 years, and saw a lot of things. When he awoke, he was so afraid that he would be branded a lunatic for what he experienced, that it kept it to himself, and only let out his experience through stories told to his children and his grandchildren.

I hope that helps.

I wonder if anyone really comes around here anymore? The whole board is a really neat idea.

[Dawnstorm]

Wish I had more time for collab stories. I enjoy them. As it is, I'm behind on two over in the Funzone... :o

I did have that idea of inserting "intermissions" of some sort all five chapters or so: an angry supernatural being in first person italics (who's basically the personification of the sum total of all stories, and who hates nothing more than story tellers, because they're all thieves, living of its substance...).

If I had the time to follow up all my inspirations, I'd been part of the Porcelain Egg thread, and of Fan Tessie thread...

Most of my online writing time is spent helping to morph the Lovable Rogue Inc. thread you can see below into a novel.

I just posted to let you know you're not writing into a vacuum. For what that's worth. :)