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Child of the 7th Age · 08-23-2002, 09:27 AM

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FANFICTION: There was something I wanted to raise. Some of us talked earlier about editing the RPG on hobit history to post it on the Downs as a fanfiction. Is anyone else interested in helping with this? I would like to do this, and would welcome someone to help (but if not, I'll slog through it myself with your comments, approval, etc.). I posted one question in the freestyle forum to see if anyone else is doing this with another RPG. I also sent Mith a pm asking his opinion. To my knowledge, no one's ever done this with a freestyle RPG, only a moderated one. The difference is that the editing is done after the posts in a freestyle fanfiction rather than before.

I think most of the writing is really strong and I have no desire to tamper with any of that. But there are problems like--some characters like Sam and Frodo dropped out early, the story has no beginning since we evolved out of another adventure, no one ever sent in character descriptions, in some cases the order of posts may need to be altered slightly, in some cases we could use a connecting sentence or paragraph. That kind of thing.

If you want to see an example of a moderated RPG fanfiction, see Gilthalion's Tales of Eriador. (This is where the moderator does the editing before the posts are actually put on the board.) By the way, do we want to keep the separate posting divisions like he does, or run it together to do a "true" narrative? That's the kind of thing that needs talking about.

Anyways, I asked Mith if it would be wise to start a "fanfiction" thread, which would function kind of like a discussion thread. We could decide any general issues or guidelines there, post chapter divisions, put up drafts in cases where I have to add things so people could look and tell me I'm all wet., etc.

What does everyone think? I'll let you know what Mith says. But keep your eyes open, in case we post a Lonely Star revision/fanfiction thread? sharon

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08-23-2002, 09:27 AM	#23
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	OOC--- FANFICTION: There was something I wanted to raise. Some of us talked earlier about editing the RPG on hobit history to post it on the Downs as a fanfiction. Is anyone else interested in helping with this? I would like to do this, and would welcome someone to help (but if not, I'll slog through it myself with your comments, approval, etc.). I posted one question in the freestyle forum to see if anyone else is doing this with another RPG. I also sent Mith a pm asking his opinion. To my knowledge, no one's ever done this with a freestyle RPG, only a moderated one. The difference is that the editing is done after the posts in a freestyle fanfiction rather than before. I think most of the writing is really strong and I have no desire to tamper with any of that. But there are problems like--some characters like Sam and Frodo dropped out early, the story has no beginning since we evolved out of another adventure, no one ever sent in character descriptions, in some cases the order of posts may need to be altered slightly, in some cases we could use a connecting sentence or paragraph. That kind of thing. If you want to see an example of a moderated RPG fanfiction, see Gilthalion's Tales of Eriador. (This is where the moderator does the editing before the posts are actually put on the board.) By the way, do we want to keep the separate posting divisions like he does, or run it together to do a "true" narrative? That's the kind of thing that needs talking about. Anyways, I asked Mith if it would be wise to start a "fanfiction" thread, which would function kind of like a discussion thread. We could decide any general issues or guidelines there, post chapter divisions, put up drafts in cases where I have to add things so people could look and tell me I'm all wet., etc. What does everyone think? I'll let you know what Mith says. But keep your eyes open, in case we post a Lonely Star revision/fanfiction thread? sharon [ August 23, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ] [ August 27, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ] __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.