(Aug 8, 2019 11:03 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]If I understood QQ right in a later amending, there can be multiple alternative storylines going on here which don't have to be integrated with each other, like I tried to do in that one attempt the other day in a purist sense. So don't worry about any different routes that SS or I were taking interfering with your own version.
That's not to wholly dismiss a grand concept being conceived at the end that might be used to assimilate or tie all the approaches together without revising them severely, but it would surely take some extraordinary imaginative effort to pull that off.
If this "Franken Literature" experiment is ever tried again, what might be done is stipulate that each contributor only supply a passage until after everyone else has donated once during a cycle, or set a time limit of sorts (once a day or half a day?). That way it's more constrained to a single storyline developing rather than gradually branching off into the "many parallel worlds". But of course, that could also make it tediously slow in emerging... depending.
hee hee... well ... I got lost about after the tenth subplot...
Normally a typical 400 page novel would have about 4 or so major subplots.... but what we have here is probably a 30000 page encyclopedia which will probably need a wiki to decipher...
But this is all really cool I might add. I love how the members have demonstrated their creativity, collective connected-ness, intuitive collaborations and humor.
A "get to know you all" thread, perhaps.
- The reason for the no rules, no right or wrong principle is to allow creative freedom that is restrained only by the author and not any one else. This allows for usually better writing, or so I have found from experience...but it also leads to sometimes rather bewildering inputs... ( chuckle) a form of collective "brainstorming".
- The reasons for sci fi genre with a limitless galactic colonization/migration theme were many, but really it is about allowing maximum flexibility, and imagination.
- The only staring guide was the title (INFESTATION) and the initial Lake setting...introducing Jarad and his yet to be named partner.
This was my first thread to this forum, some of the members I know , some I don't. There is no way I was going to tell any one how they should creatively restrain themselves...any attempt at control would fail IMO.
But so far it has been a great success, even if it appears to have produced a complex labyrinth of great ideas and concepts.
As to putting it together in a sensible way, I am not all that confident it is possible with out arbitrarily excluding or heavily modifying someone else's ideas, potentially alienating that poster.
So I wont do that, not with my first thread topic... maybe the next one... hee hee.
Maybe INFESTATION can relate to ideas and concepts as well?
The newly released "Another Life" on NETFLIX is amazing for it's diversity of ideas.... a sort of TV series thrown together just to show of the ideas but not decent writing or much else... lol
As Peter Hamilton, ( famous British Sci Fi Author) wrote on social media "Copper pipes in the FTL drive engine room with the Captain using an adjustable mechanics wrench was hilarious" or something to that effect...
...and it was and still is offering similar implausibilities...even after watching chapter 8 of the first season.
CC
Quote:Go for it. One good idea can pursued and completed. Just don't get bogged down by hundreds of others screaming for attention and undertaking at the same time, as would be the case with me.
ahh
"The essence of writers block is not about the lack of ideas. It is typically the overwhelming number of ideas that all beg for immediate attention.." ~can't remember who
sorry still trying to work out how this forum software is set up.... interesting posting format...
Interestingly a neighbor few doors down is an author....should have consulted him first. 
