Monday, August 28, 2006
Possible changes???
My VIP author from the Character Story wrote to me today asking about starting the 2nd chapter as the first chapter seems to have stopped.......Well, the first chapter actually hasn't stopped (there's not enough in it to account for a complete chapter!) it's just that no-one has written in it for a while.
So it follows that until the first chapter is complete, the second cannot be started.......so I was thinking of ways around this. One potential way it to make the Character Story a collection of short stories. That way new chapters/stories can be started right now, and there is also the benefit of being able to have co-running short stories being created at the same time......which might be a little more interesting than watching the current stasis of the Character Story.
I'd love to hear feedback from people to gauge what they think about this idea........It also follows that the (currently more popular) Word Story could also be turned into a collection of shorter stories......say 20 stories of 50,000 words (each story being basically 35 times longer than it is at the moment to complete one of the short stories).
Anyway, let me know what you think and I might implement these changes.
¶ 8:12 PM
Hmmm....I've just come up with an idea in changing the Character Story into a collection of short stories.......say 20 short stories, each containing 50,000 characters (roughly 12 A4 pages per story).
My VIP author from the Character Story wrote to me today asking about starting the 2nd chapter as the first chapter seems to have stopped.......Well, the first chapter actually hasn't stopped (there's not enough in it to account for a complete chapter!) it's just that no-one has written in it for a while.
So it follows that until the first chapter is complete, the second cannot be started.......so I was thinking of ways around this. One potential way it to make the Character Story a collection of short stories. That way new chapters/stories can be started right now, and there is also the benefit of being able to have co-running short stories being created at the same time......which might be a little more interesting than watching the current stasis of the Character Story.
I'd love to hear feedback from people to gauge what they think about this idea........It also follows that the (currently more popular) Word Story could also be turned into a collection of shorter stories......say 20 stories of 50,000 words (each story being basically 35 times longer than it is at the moment to complete one of the short stories).
Anyway, let me know what you think and I might implement these changes.
¶ 8:12 PM
