[Project] Tandem Writing

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:29 am

Anyone interested in starting up a Tandem Writing project? Similar to the ones we did back before The Great Implosion - 4-8 people taking turns writing the same story, each from the perspective of their particular character (for the most part). No particular GM, any writer can drop plot points which any other writer can pick up and run with.

Goat Sex!

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:04 am

Oh I'm interested, I'd just be flaky in my contributions.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:12 pm

How do you define flaky? I'd say if we averaged 1-2 posts per day as a group total we'd be doing alright. That'd be 1-2 posts per week per person.

Of course, it's always permissible to pass, as long as you don't do it /too/ often. Lord knows with summer coming up I'd do it a few times at least.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:34 pm

I'm in.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:54 pm

What are you in the mood for? I'd be up for restarting our little sci-fi thing, though right now I'm more in the mood for a modern fantasy. Been burning through the Dresden Files lately, wouldn't mind something along that genre.

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:22 am

By flake, I mean this week I have zero on the free time scale, and next week I have a lot, and who knows what the week after that holds. And then sometimes I just flake out in the more traditional sense of not keeping up my end of the doohickies. I'm up for anything though

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:26 am

I'm in as well. That Trek thing we did was fun as hell, but I'm up for whatever and whenever.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:51 pm

Alright, well we got 4 people then I think. Shall we give it a try? As we have one new person, and we're missing three of our previous authors, I vote we start new.

I'd like to do a modern fantasy, since I've been burning through the Dresden Files lately. If you haven't read any of the books, here's a decent primer on the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Files. It's basically very WoD like, though I'd say with considerably less angst.

Thoughts?

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:32 pm

Jim Butcher is, and has been for several months, my newest God of writing. The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera are two amazing series. I'm chomping at the bit for the next book in both.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:55 pm

Oh sure, why not?

TLM · Post by **TLM** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:46 pm

I've been going over the old tandem writing prjects, and they certainly look interesting. Might not manage more than a post or so a week, though, so if that's too low, I won't butt in.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:54 pm

I'd say that'd be fine. I've got a nice busy schedule, so I'll probably be no more then 2 per week.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:18 pm

What the hell, count me in.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:37 pm

Alrighty then, we've got seven. I'll start two other threads. One In Character, one Out Of Character. We'll discuss characters, plot, writing order, things like that in OOC. I'll post the Prologue in the IC post, and we'll take it from there. I'm posting the prologue just to help kick off the creative juices, we don't neccesarily have to starting adding chapters until we get characters settled out.

Title is "Heaven & Hell".

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:47 pm

JohnnyRico wrote:Jim Butcher is, and has been for several months, my newest God of writing. The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera are two amazing series.

What's the Codex Alera series like? As a devoted Dresden fan I've been meaning to have a look at the first one but lack of time, and to some extent past experiences of successful authors trying to branch out into new genres to try and get out of the shadow of their first creations and the results, have kept me from doing so so far.

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:36 pm

You'll get to see a little bit of their magic system in my character's powers, but the book series are at the same time nothing alike, but very similar. The plot centers around a single family, the primary focus being on the young Tavi, who is unique in his inability to call on the elementals, called furies, that everyone, and I do mean everyone else has at least a slight ability to call on. In every book so far, he covers political back-blading, violence, romance (though some books more than others), prejudice, and cultural diversity. And he does it while making it a hard book to put down.

If you go in expecting Dresden, you won't get it. I hesitate to say that you'll be dissapointed, because that's essentially what I did and it's far from the truth. I've read all nine Dresden books, and all three in the Codex Alera, and I'm chomping at the bit for the fourth one. As always with Butcher's books, the story, characters, and the entire world are all well developed.

Reika · Post by **Reika** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:24 pm

Codex Alera has the feel of Ancient Rome (not with those specific terms of course) with magicians who have powers fueled by elemental spirits. As is usual with Butcher, the writing and characterization are excellent.