On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Doug wrote: > > Sounds like fun to me, how would it work?
Well, DB hit the nail on the head in his remarks to Jeroen: David Brin: >Heh. Sounds like fun... so long as people don't take it too far >out-of-group and make fanzine fiction out of it. Kirk/Spock kinky stuff. >Yuck. > >Might I suggest two levels? 1) semi serious and 2) gonzo.... > >If it's to be a rambling set of "I wish Tom would --" daydreams, no order >is needed, just someone to collect the ideas and eventually send em to me! > >If the aim is to do a real round robin, people would want to sign up and >each person take a week offline to read what came before and prepare the >next installment. In the latter case there should be a maestro in charge >of continuity/consistency. > >Just pondering ways to keep it fun. Basically, I'm volunteering to play "maestro." I have some hitherto unused web space that can be used to "publish" the series, and I'm happy to use it that way. Now that we have a hint of a beginning of a story, I think we need to sketch out a rough plot and put together a list of people willing to contribute. Also, if we have any seriously detail-oriented people willing to help keep us consistent with Uplift Universe facts and terminology, that would help. I've read the Uplift books a couple of times, but it'll be easy to make mistakes regardless. The books' glossaries should provide some help. I think the serious/gonzo angle is consistent with what I originally described: gonzo because our goal is to have fun, but serious enough to provide some suspense and to keep the action moving forward. I also think that, since we're SF fans, we should feel at liberty to explore SFinal aspects of the Uplift Universe if a nifty or thoughtful idea occurs. For consistency of feel We should adopt the DB trademark style of focusing on particular points of view. This'll be convenient for another reason: if it's difficult to think of something to immediately follow the action in the previous story-section, one can often change to another character's POV to comment on the situation, introduce a new element, etc. So here's our current list of volunteers: Marvin Doug Jim Zimmy ...with Adam and Matt possibly shouting dirty plot twists from the peanut gallery, unless they too want to enlist? :-) Anyone else out there interested? Finally: Once I have a list of volunteers, I will create a small private e-group (or yahoo group) so that we can communicate with each other easily without risking giving away plot points to the list at large. New volunteers will be welcome to join if interest in the project grows, of course. Really Finally: I'm also interested in hearing thoughts and suggestions from everybody. Now's the time: once we commit to a basic plot it'll be my job to try to keep us focused on that. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
