Questus Interruptus - The Fate of The Dwarf, The Elf And The Wizard

Jesus Christ.

I wasn't even AIMING for your escutcheon, and yet it is besmirched. It may have happened somewhere else.

I twist nothing in what I say above. Yet you feel a need to defend.

I am not attacking. Yet you feel a need to armor yourself.

The only box I have ever put you in is Harley-riding businessman from Texas.

Now prepare to defend yourself, scoundrel!!!

A Harley is a small man's machine, a bike for FAGS, with a fake growl and an engine left dead on the tracks by anything of reasonable Italian or Japanese construction.

Now THAT is besmirching.

Whatever dude... You KNOW EXACTLY what you meant by what you typed... So did I...

Besides that there are only TWO types of motorcycle riders...

1. Those who ride a Harley-Davidson
2. Those who WISH they rode a Harley-Davidson

m...

Springer

I respect you and take you seriously enough to see that you have misinterpreted my intent, and therefore this needs to be revisited until it is resolved.

What I commented on was a "history of conflict". In no sense did I point to the initiation or escalation of anything, in fact I am not aware of the whole matter except seeing 3 or 4 samples of it. I hold nobody responsible in my mind for it, for attacking or for defending, for visiting or revisiting.

What you will see that I have said clearly is that I do not want to participate in such conflict.

This is a totally blame-free statement. Take it at its face value, as intended. There can be no conspiracy at work when something is said by one to another, as a straight up statement, intended to be accepted straight up.

Recall the number of instances over which I had to disabuse you of the notion that my ID here is an alter ego of SimonGray. You know the truth of that.

Now, when I say that I wish to not participate in such conflict, that is in the same ballpark.

BTW, you haven't answered my question about whether you think this environment is a fit one for children.

I'm sure all contributions were in character.

Any chance we could move this thread on to a more positive note and develope ways of making the concept work better.

Jb1

Eventually I am sure it will be so.

I have not prepared a dish for you yet, but it will be civilised, no vulture soup or dried drop bear. It will be digestible, but it will need to be masticated well.

for Christ's sake, MA, it's all that mastication that got us into trouble in the first place!

/bad joke

I know of a certain ATS-addicted elf that was meant to be in bed an hour ago!!!!

actually, I am in bed. (yay laptop!) but yeah, I did mean to go to sleep. obviously that didn't quite happen.

Children, no

U=Simon, if you thought I was EVER serious I appologise, that's unbeleivable to me BUT if you did than I do...

The rest, whatever...

Ciaou...

Sleep calls...

m...

(By William, April 2003 - I've never seen these before)

Collaborative Fiction Forum!

Above Top Secret Collaborative Fiction Forum Rules and Guidelines

We have a new feature of Above Top Secret that is sure to provide interesting reading in the very near future, the Collaborative Fiction Forum. Each thread in this forum will be a new work of fiction, created by several authors, one post at a time. The rules are simple:

Only members designated as "Writers" are allowed to post. New writers will be selected by forum staff and upgraded to "Writer" status by forum administrators (Simon Gray, Bob88, or William).

Writers should only contribute to the story they are assigned. Butting into other stories may result in the loss of your Writer status!

Stories should have no fewer than 5 writers, and no more than 10. Writers should leave at least a two-post gap between their contributions. Your contribution to a running story must pick up where the last post left-off and generally shouldn't exceed three paragraphs (or about 500 words).

These experiments work best when you attempt to continue the pace and theme running in each writer's post. Keep major changes and twists to a minimum... consider your reader! Also, it always works best when writers no not collaborate on plot via U2U or other off-site communications. Keep it fresh, spontaneous, and interesting.

Each story will begin with an introduction of the writer team assigned by a forum staff member, then a one or two sentence kick-off post to begin.

The Collaborative Fiction forum is streamlined for easier reading -- member avatars, and other normal forum display information have been removed.


From above:

* 5-10 writers would make it easier on people who have upheavals or issues preventing a daily post

* no off-site communications is an interesting aspect of "spontaneity" but it is not entirely "collaborative"

* the most important thing that writers should probably grasp is the goal or objective or resolution that they are heading to - it doesn't need to be totally defined, but it needs some benchmarks to get there. Pessimists or horror story readers might want a mission to fail, while adventure readers might want the story to show grand heroism in the face of adversity. Is it possible to evolve that to everyone's satisfaction?

Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
* the most important thing that writers should probably grasp is the goal or objective or resolution that they are heading to - it doesn't need to be totally defined, but it needs some benchmarks to get there. Pessimists or horror story readers might want a mission to fail, while adventure readers might want the story to show grand heroism in the face of adversity. Is it possible to evolve that to everyone's satisfaction?

I have no answers for this one. all the previous ones I've been involved with have started with a reasonably vague concept and then turned into a free-for-all. it usually continues until the members either get bored and leave the mailing list or the story becomes so convoluted or so many people have issues with the story that a "reset" becomes necessary. (reset as in, the story begins again from a mutually agreed point and runs from there.) I don't think I've ever worked on one that had a coherent ending.