It would be the easiest, and it would probably give a good enough "Community feel" to get other people to help.
I agree. It would be easy to relate to, but I don't want it to be directly related to AG.
But there are multiple, so there would be multiple main characters.
If we do keep this sort of medieval plot, we will have a bit more characters than a regular book, but all will be evenly distributed throughout the book so nobody really gets confused. This is where plot directors come in.
If we are going for the AG theme, wouldn't it be Fantasy?
Medieval Fantasy. Castles, dragons, magic, basically The Elder Scrolls in a book.
We could have it so that all the writer's keep well in touch, to keep each of there main characters tied into the others and still connected in the main plot. Then post each writer's style and character's point of view at the same time. That said though, we would need to write up storyboards and the like so there a little to no flaws.
The writers will stay in touch during plotting times (in between chapters). Once the directors have a plot down, the previous writer will talk to the next writer and discuss things over. As for the storyboards, plot directors, you'll need to find a document you can keep all of the plot in. Word, Open Office, Google Docs, etc., easy enough to open and go back when ever there is confusion.
We don't want to get too close to the WoM though.
We won't. We're better than them. :P
I was thinking that we could turn the AG into our setting in a real-world emulation, with notable folk from the community acting as characters to gravitate towards. Highfire, MageGrayWolf, Gstroy, GhostofMatrix, they'll all live in this real-life idea of a society that works exactly as the forums do.
We still need to keep it balanced. These people
can appear, but they won't be drastically placed. We'll just revolve around a certain number of main characters, with the exception of some background or recurring characters.
If you want to base this in the AMW, then it should be AMW people like acmed, dudeguy, and wolf
Mostly all around AG itself. I kind of imagine it as a community castle. How does that sound?
If you could expand on the idea of occupations, and the AG society, that would be great, so that way I can get more of an idea of where you are trying to go.
Bingo. You got it. We can easily translate characters on the site and translate into a fictional one. Mods can be the soldiers. Admins are the high kings of the palace. Users based on their ranking on AG are their superiority in the castle. Got anything more?
The writers would write from their own point of view, mostly. Not necessarily THEIR exact point of view, but what most other AG community stories have done, is have each person who wants to be a character, write their own bit, and then the official writer stick it all together.
"each person who wants to be a character". What do you mean by that? I agree with the rest, but we're just gonna have random people join the book? If yes, remember, character organization.
As in we would give them a prompt, like "You're stuck on an island, and you have to decide on going with Wolf or Tacky. Who would you go with and what would you do?" And they would make up their own story.
That would make a cushion for the writers so to speak. They don't write away lolly gaggy lalalala, but get something to go with along with plot direction, just so that it seems consistent. However, the leash will be loosened a bit. The writer may use plot twists as which he/she is comfortable with. We won't make the whole plot in one post, but we'll add more as the writer's POV is caught along with others.
The WoM is mainly another version of the 'AG is a country, the users are characters' type of story. If you write another story of this type, it will be close to the WoM.
Some, but not all the users participating are characters. We won't do a, User 1 writes only about himself while User 2 writes about herself. It's a story with a plot that the writers will writer unbiased with themselves if they're in the book.
Writer and plot director it is.
Thank you!
I won't go into main character. That's to be morphed, formed, and developed, not to just say a name and leave. Genre? Perhaps high fantasy, science fiction, or historical fiction. These are all popular genres, and fit the community nicely. Setting? As with the main character(s), this is not to just be said. It is to be planned, developed, designed.
Main Character will wait until we have a beginning plot down. I should add the plural to character as we will have a bit. The genre should be fantasy. Maybe Skyrim fantasy. Dragons and all that crap. Agreed?
My suggestion? Have somebody, one person, design each of the ideas within certain parameters, and then have the remaining group and agree on what should remain and what should change.
Sounds good. Plot directors, start gathering in everything and bundle it. Got it?
That one person *should* be acmed in my opinion, but that is purely up to him. He's the one who started it, therefore all rights are his.
I'm as much as a participant as everyone else. I'm just here to keep things in charge, maybe write a bit, and keep everything in line. This is a plot director's job. And... should be starting.
Even though it is a community thing, It would be nice to have a certain... idea thread, then a complete thread solely for the final thing.
Would an idea thread annoy the mods? Maybe put it on someone's page? A Google Doc atleast?
Otherwise it would just be acmed's novel with a few writers helping.
Which won't happen. I'm not here to boss around. In fact, I've barley made any suggestions besides adding on to Moon's.
Okay. Now that that's settled, plot directors, can you look through the suggestions and gather the sole basics of the book.
