Category: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction

The Diaryies of ???

An idea from Hypatia:

“Could we do something where we’re collectively writing the diary of some person, but we don’t plan anything about the person. They could be a historical figure or an ordinary teenager or an adult or a cow or a hot pink bunny. We’d just write entry after entry without consulting at all and see how the story went, with each person adding elements to the character.”

Writing Challenge: Theme with Variations, Round 2

A new round by popular request. The idea is to start with an image and each person writes about it as s/he sees it, in the writer’s choice of style. See the original thread for clarification and inspiration.

The current prompt: a scarecrow in an abandoned field
Previous: chopstick drawing

The idea is to start with an image and each person writes about it as s/he sees it, in the writer’s choice of style. See the original thread for clarification and inspiration.

Current prompt: someone or something on the border between wilderness and civilization

Previous prompts:
a dog lying in the street




Next up:

Role-Playing Writing, v. 2007.2, Part 1 [Settling the Planet]

Alice launched the first RPW thread in May 2007, describing it as follows:

Everyone makes up one character (made up, mind you!) and we decide on plot, time, etc. just like usual. Then we start. It would be in the form of letters or e-mails, and we would say at the top of our post who the letter was to.

Everyone would have to read all of the posts, though, to prevent conflicting plot twists, but their character wouldn’t know about whatever the letter said unless it was addressed to them.

Get it?
If not, then phooey. That was hard to explain.

Even though the original one is still going on, we’re starting a new Role-Playing Writing thread from scratch so that newcomers and latecomers can participate. Have fun!

MuseBlog NaNoNovels

The dust has settled, the word count is in, and MuseBlog is a winner!

If you’d like other MBers to read your finished (or unfinished) oeuvre, email it to gapa @ musefanpage.com (delete the spaces). We’ll post it here.

NOTE: Please use an easily identifiable subject line in your emails so we don’t mistake them for spam!

The dust has settled, the word count is in, and MuseBlog is a winner! Congratulatory pies to all!

If you’d like other MBers to read your finished (or unfinished) oeuvre, email it to gapa @ musefanpage.com (delete the spaces). We’ll post it here.

NOTE: Please use an easily identifiable subject line in your emails so we don’t mistake them for spam!

The novels are set up as individual Google documents, so click the link to view them.

Prarilius Canix Flamehenge

Cinnamon Moon Sunset in Niomahn

Kiki the Great Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie

Purple Panda: Muse Academy

::DandelionsAreWildflowers:: About Me Being Celli

Ebeth [title?]

Beavo the Online Stalker Spy Magic: Handle with Care

RRR SMAS-TT*, Part 1

*Round Robin ‘Riting Sans Magic And Space-Time Travel

Just in time for the post-NaNo season, a brand new RRR. Suggested by Prarilius Canix, who pointed out “that the two sci-fi RRRs we had both had space travel, and the innumerable fantasy RRRs all had magic. I think it’s time to pull a Monty Python and say ‘And now for something completely different.’ I think that the writers on the blog (including me) might enjoy a challenge.”

NaNoWriMo* 2007, Part 2

Week Two Begins. Continued from Part 1.

*National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have not yet been swept up in the madness.

Week Two Begins. Continued from Part 1.

*National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have not yet been swept up in the madness.

MuseBlog Participants (official or unofficial):

100% Cotton
2,3-dimethylPENTane (The Golden People)
Alice (West of West)
Axa
Beavo the Online Stalker (Magic: Handle With Care)
curious and questioning (Alter Egos and How to Enjoy High School) (A Self Called Nowhere)
:DAW: ( About me being Celli)
Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender (science fiction)
Ebeth
Fortune Cell
Glassboro (The Lord Groundhog)
/gradster(1)/ (Mixed-up-patched-together-pile-o’-words…)
greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (Full Blooded Moon)
Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas
Hafiz
Jadestone
jammin j (absolutely no idea)
Kiki the Great (Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie)
kricket
Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange
lifewithoutanipod
Lizzie
MontgomeryGurl (How to Defeat a Grandolean)
oxlin widdershins
philosophical bunny
Prarilius Canix (Fourhenge)
Purple Panda (Muse Academy)
purplefinch (the evil R. Coontz and his Link Gnome minions)
Red-tailed HAWK (Prairie Passings)
Supergeek and the Deathly Hallows
Sweet Melpomene (fantasy)
Synthrael (Kitty Cadawell and the Curse of the Shadowslayers)
Taiwan Hippo Fan
the man for aeiou (Monster’s Land)
TNÖ (the Excelsior/Earth thing)
Unintended Pun
Vendaval
Lady Bunniful (Eccentricities of Red)

NaNo Tips and Tricks

So that useful advice won’t get lost, here’s a place you can share your favorite tips and tricks or ask for specific help such as: How do you increase your word count? Keep your characters straight? Come up with names? How do you prepare yourself to withstand the dreaded Second Week Slog?

For general comments, word count announcements, or anything else NaNo-related, proceed to NaNoWriMo 2007, Part 2.

NaNoWriMo* 2007, Part 1

Impatient Eager writers have been brainstorming on the NaNoBraSto thread. The moment you’ve been waiting for arrives at November 1, 12:01 AM by your local clocks, just in time to take advantage of the Halloween sugar buzz.

*National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have not yet been swept up in the madness.

Impatient Eager writers have been brainstorming on the NaNoBraSto thread. The moment you’ve been waiting for arrives at November 1, 12:01 AM by your local clocks, just in time to take advantage of the Halloween sugar buzz.
Continue reading “NaNoWriMo* 2007, Part 1”