A Writing Experiment - One Story, Multiple Authors

[Zapdos]

Oh wow! I stopped checking the forums because nobody was responding to this. I'm flattered, grateful and happy that there are so many people interested in this little idea of mine. Let me mention everybody so that I don't miss anyone:

@Tiger@Virgil@Abolish nICE@Hyde@Relin@Bria The Human

I'll try to address everyone's points. Apologies if I miss anything, there's a lot there.

-I wasn't planning any particular setting too strongly, but I'm fine with fantasy as that seems to be what everyone here is good with. I have an inkling of an idea for an opening post that could work well in a fantasy setting. I didn't want to plan too much though because this is a story I wanted to write with all of your help and improvising can be fun, but there has to be common sense involved. If it's a fantasy setting, the next post shouldn't be a robot popping in from the future to shoot the protagonist. lulrandom type stuff, while funny, just isn't interesting long term
-Smut, torture and gore don't appeal to me either. I was thinking a common-sense PG-13 type of thing. It's possible to have an interesting story without hardcore violence or smut but I didn't plan on writing an episode of Teletubbies lol
-Also, I don't want to write anything political. Whatever your views are, there's enough of that elsewhere and it's a dreary subject.
-My idea was giving each poster a day to write their post, but I'm fine with whatever reasonable time limit. 1 day or 24 hours after the last post or so.
-No guns is fine with me.
-I was planning on doing this here in RP Guild but if you all want to do it on a Google Doc, that's fine by me.

Did I miss anything here? Any questions? Let me know your thoughts. I look forward to writing with you!

[Relin]

I would definitely suggest setting up a basic setting for fantasy, as it could be relatively grounded like Game of Thrones, or it could be a kitchen sink of gods and magic like The Forgotten Realms. It'll just be good to establish some consistency before we start.

[Chuuya]

Sorry, I slept in later than usual.

Anyway, I'm glad to see that the OP returned and that we all seem to be on the same page so far. I'm not particularly picky about the setting so sci-fi, fantasy, or a mix of both works perfectly for me. I'm also in favor of a posting order and time limit though a day seems a little short (unless we make it a system where turns can be easily passed without penalty). Maybe it's doable, maybe not, I'm not really familiar with post-by-post Roleplaying just yet. I've just noticed that most of the posts here in the Casual section happen seven or eight days apart on average. Also! While I'm thinking about it, should we make a chat on Discord for OOC contact or does that feel unnecessary for this?

[Bria The Human]

Oh wow! I stopped checking the forums because nobody was responding to this. I'm flattered, grateful and happy that there are so many people interested in this little idea of mine. Let me mention everybody so that I don't miss anyone:

@Tiger@Virgil@Abolish nICE@Hyde@Relin@Bria The Human

I'll try to address everyone's points. Apologies if I miss anything, there's a lot there.

-I wasn't planning any particular setting too strongly, but I'm fine with fantasy as that seems to be what everyone here is good with. I have an inkling of an idea for an opening post that could work well in a fantasy setting. I didn't want to plan too much though because this is a story I wanted to write with all of your help and improvising can be fun, but there has to be common sense involved. If it's a fantasy setting, the next post shouldn't be a robot popping in from the future to shoot the protagonist. lulrandom type stuff, while funny, just isn't interesting long term
-Smut, torture and gore don't appeal to me either. I was thinking a common-sense PG-13 type of thing. It's possible to have an interesting story without hardcore violence or smut but I didn't plan on writing an episode of Teletubbies lol
-Also, I don't want to write anything political. Whatever your views are, there's enough of that elsewhere and it's a dreary subject.
-My idea was giving each poster a day to write their post, but I'm fine with whatever reasonable time limit. 1 day or 24 hours after the last post or so.
-No guns is fine with me.
-I was planning on doing this here in RP Guild but if you all want to do it on a Google Doc, that's fine by me.

Did I miss anything here? Any questions? Let me know your thoughts. I look forward to writing with you!

@Zapdos

Sounds good to me :) I'm fine with any setting honestly, I'm very flexible when it comes to writing. I'm happy with whatever everyone else decides. I think that doing it here in RP guild would be a good idea, just because it makes it easier to tell who contributed last to the story so that we can keep track of whose turn it is next.

[Zapdos]

I would definitely suggest setting up a basic setting for fantasy, as it could be relatively grounded like Game of Thrones, or it could be a kitchen sink of gods and magic like The Forgotten Realms. It'll just be good to establish some consistency before we start.

@Relin

A basic setting is fine. I'm not familiar with Game of Thrones or Forgotten Realms though. I was just thinking a typical magical fantasy setting; humans, orcs, elves, etc. Basic DND-ish stuff. I was trying to avoid planning every every granular detail of this world because part of the fun is building a story with all of you, but I can see the logic in applying a basic setting.

Sorry, I slept in later than usual.

Anyway, I'm glad to see that the OP returned and that we all seem to be on the same page so far. I'm not particularly picky about the setting so sci-fi, fantasy, or a mix of both works perfectly for me. I'm also in favor of a posting order and time limit though a day seems a little short (unless we make it a system where turns can be easily passed without penalty). Maybe it's doable, maybe not, I'm not really familiar with post-by-post Roleplaying just yet. I've just noticed that most of the posts here in the Casual section happen seven or eight days apart on average. Also! While I'm thinking about it, should we make a chat on Discord for OOC contact or does that feel unnecessary for this?

@Hyde

No worries, it took me 13 days to respond to my own post :P

I was actually considering reducing it to 18 hours, but I'm open to whatever you all think is reasonable. Personally I think 18-24 hours is good as people will be waiting for many other people before they can post. If, at the slowest, one person posts a day and there are six people in the group it would be six days between when you can post again.

Also, I am writing the OOC post now and will make a Discord server. I think it's a good way to communicate ideas about the story and get to know each other.

[Chuuya]

No worries, it took me 13 days to respond to my own post :P

I was actually considering reducing it to 18 hours, but I'm open to whatever you all think is reasonable. Personally I think 18-24 hours is good as people will be waiting for many other people before they can post. If, at the slowest, one person posts a day and there are six people in the group it would be six days between when you can post again.

Also, I am writing the OOC post now and will make a Discord server. I think it's a good way to communicate ideas about the story and get to know each other.

@Zapdos

True and true. A different Roleplay style (from what I've seen so far) probably allows for much more flexibility in that regard. I'm looking forward to seeing the OOC and properly getting to meet all of you! Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help with formatting the OOC or whatnot (it'd be great experience anyway) and I would be happy to assist you.

[Zapdos]

The OOC is up! The link is located here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/182175-a-w…

Please look it over and let me know if you have any questions, thoughts, etc. I will be gaming with friends so I won't respond right away but I will be able to in a few hours or so. I look forward to seeing you all there!

P.S. mentioning people so nobody is left out.

@Tiger@Virgil@Abolish nICE@Hyde@Relin@Bria The Human