That’s Round-Robin ‘Riting, with Rules — with luck, a cure for the chaos that swallowed the previous RRR thread. Calo anor na ven!
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That’s Round-Robin ‘Riting, with Rules — with luck, a cure for the chaos that swallowed the previous RRR thread. Calo anor na ven!
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Yay! Post Number 1!
Okay, rules people.
a) No more than 10 charachters
b) no more than 4 settings at a time
c) Charachters must “buddy-up” when they go somewhere. Nobody leaving a place without a friend or enemy…causes to much confusion on where somebody is.
d) stick to a basic plot, which we will decide on later.
e) try not to make things to confusing. Give explanations why someone is here…blah blah blah.
Hate to be bossy, people, but I know how to write a decent book. So does Phoenix. And a lot of you too, so let’s get writing!!
I still say it’s wierd being mean.
And I meant explanations like
Madora had only gone to Chajorn because Hannah and left her. Otherwise, she would have stayed and Grandma’s musty hut that she had lived at all her life.
i’ll stick to free form writing!!
I’m doing both.
weird is spelled e before i for some odd reason.
the way I spell wierd actually lives up to it’s name…WIERD!!! and that’s weird.
The last time I checked alot of great books had more than ten characters! You need minor and supporting characters to make the story understandable. You can’t just have a city with no people!
And if you explain everything the plot line becomes predictable and boring. Little explanations are okay, but they shouldn’t be so direct.
I am probably doing this just because Kricket said that she and Phoenix knew how to write a decent book, but it my nature, ya know.
Good luck with that, mates.
Rules (RRF’s version)
(1) Only one or two main characters. Not five like last time.
(2) Stick to basic plot that you can deviate from VERY SLIGHTLY if you’ve got this great idea or something.
(3) Explanations, but not overtly explicit ones that seem to be added in only because the thread’s rules say you need explanations. After all, life needs some mystery.
(4) Tell someone when they’re possibly breaking a rule.
Good rules? Bad rules? I don’t know. But I think I should have a say, ’cause I’ve done my fair share of book-writing too.
Hmm, well I lost track of the last one rather fast (darn math keeping me off the computer). Chintsu has a point-novels need characters- but I think for what we’re doing, we should have a set number. It get crazy. randomrohanfreak is right: in this case two or three works well.
So, what kind of plot are we doing? I like mine and MongomeryGurl’s fine. Any preferences or other ideas? (Now why do I feel like Mimi?)
What was your plot? HRM?
Okay, new rules.
a) Three main charachters
b) Eight minor charachters
c) 4 settings
d) 1 plot!
e) give artisitic explanations
f)Tell someone if they are breaking the rules
g) try to stay as original as possible.
h) Use REAL WORDS!!! (Phoenix
)
Okay….
let’s vote….
settings
a) a city and a rural area
b) a city and a city
c) a rural area and a rural area
d) a city and suburban area
e) a rural area and a suburban area
f) a suburban area and a suburban area
plot
a) things are astir in ______________________________. Dragons, killers, and blood-thristy creatures are crawling all over the land. Its up to a 1) trio 2) pair 3) a kid/kids/adult/adults discover their source and try to rid their sacred land of it.
Number of pages? __
b) custom plot
Charachters
a) Bhaue—description: a girl who is determined to rid her sacred land of deadly creatures.
b) ——WHO WANTS TO TELL US????
c) ——IT’S YOURS!!!!!
Minor charachters
1) ___________
2)______________
3) __________…………………..
……………………
You can add the minor charachters.
NO MODIFICATIONS EXCEPT FOR CHARACHTERS
Nooooooo! I like dragons! THEY ARE NOT EVIL!
Yay for structured writing! Again, I say to you, I vote for a natural setting. I claim minor Character 2. He’s a lovely cliched little person: But first, is this fantasy?
My votes:
c)
b) A teenage Viking girl living in Greenland sneaks onto Leif Eriksson’s ship, bound for the New World. On the voyage, she is discovered. The crew, not wanting to throw her into the ocean to fend for herself, take her in. When they reach a land Leif christens Vinland, Our Heroine is taken captive by Skraelings (Inuit/faerie crossbreeds) She finds that although she’s lived in Greenland all her life, she speaks and understands Skraeling perfectly. However, an ancient evil is threatening Vinland, and Our Heroine, the crew, and the Skraelings are all going to have to work together to defeat it.
a) Kristin (name not permanent). More description later. What I know about her so far is already in the plot description.
KitKat, don’t you think no modifications is a bit extreme? I humbly accept modifications to my general plot.
Minor characters (my plot):
1) Leif Eriksson. Real dude. Viking explorer who was the first European to reach the Americas. He landed in Newfoundland (which he called Vinland) about 1000 C.E. He was the son of Erik the Red, who sailed from Iceland to Greenland. In this story, he is a 30-something captain, stern but not mean. He wants to prove the rumours of a new land to the west, and welcomes Kristin’s ability to speak with them after he finds her to make a tentative peace. He knows that the Skraelings greatly outnumber him, and doesn’t want all his men killed.
Rules:
1) One. two, or three main characters. Try to stick to one, but he/she can have a companion or mentor if you want.
2) Only settings that make sense in the plot, and not too many. No spaceships in a Viking fantasy!
3) One plot. Try to keep within the boundaries of the set plot, and only use plot devices that are necessary or make sense. No alien abductions in a Viking fantasy!
4) No plagarism. You may NOT have a little short guy with hairy feet set off on a quest to destroy his engagement ring. That belongs in the universe of parody, and I for one do not think parody is what we’re trying to write here. And try not to steal from other threads, like RRR FF. Only characters from relatively distant history (like Leif) or original characters. No teenage scarfaced wizards named Harry Potter. Or, for that matter, Perry Hotter.
5) Check your spelling, even of proper names. No using alternate spellings like efrits/afreets/efriti/Efrits/Efriti. The person who invents a character gets to decide how to spell his/her name. If a character is named Kristin, you can’t call her Cristyn just because you like the way it looks better.
6) No inventing characters just so you can “control” them. This is not a RPG. This is a story, where too many characters get confusing.
7) Tell someone when they’re breaking a rule.
I like randomfreaks plot the best. I thinks efrit is singular and efriti is plural. If this was in Egypt it would probable be afreet for both plural and singular.
sorry just had to do that
ChinTsu,
In Egypt and other Arabic-speaking countries, it’s afrit (afreet) for singular and afarit (afareet) for plural. In both words, the accent is on the last syllable.
–Robert, who has studied Arabic
Yay ChinTsu! Go Vikings! Course, I like KitKat’s idea too, but…
So, which plot shall we use? Will Senor Administrador hate me forever if we don’t agree and I suggest a SECOND RRR w/R thread? And the big one: will he create the thread?
I like my plot. (duh) Modifications or ideas to the general scheme welcome.
Oh. Ya.
Needs to pay attention to that arabic in those Amelia Peobody mysteries. i want to study arabic when i get in colledge. fallafel is yummy………:mrgreen:
Isn’t it interesting how this hasn’t gotten started, while the free-form is moving right along?
That’s because we can’t agree on plot or rules.
yeah. Maybe it should just be freeform, just we learn from past mistakes and try not to make it chaotic.. or we could all join the freeform board. Well you could, I already have.
yeah. Maybe it should just be freeform, just we learn from past mistakes and try not to make it chaotic.. or we could all join the freeform board. Well you could, I already have. nuts! another double post!
What’s the point of the w/R thing, if we make it freeform? Although the freeform one is going pretty well so far. I write half the entries… it’s really annoying, but I have too many ideas. And we still have two different plot ideas. One thread for my idea and one thread for KitKat’s, please, Senor Administrador? Maybe that would help. We could make them freeform but still add the idea of “if someone goes insane, tell ’em.” How’s that sound to you?
WHERE ARE YOU? AM I ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?
Probably not. But nobody’s posted here for two days… I’m scawed…
Did all of you abandon the thread and forget to tell me?
yep! we are just going to make an effort to civilize it.
Don’t mean to criticize, but noticing that you haven’t written anything yet, why agree on a plot at the beginning? Most of the rules i can understand (agree on characters, limit #, blahblahblah) but i dunno. A lot of my writing is start w/an idea and go with it. It’s not necessarily free form, but it’s not so strict and formulated, which i think makes it less interesting.
When you guys start i’ll join in cuz i’m on a random writing rant right now.
so yeah i know i’m a terribly radical free-former (*gasp*) but I think you guys are trying too much to live up to the “w/R” bit. A couple of rules is fine, you don’t need big long lists.
If you guys disagree and hate me for butting in and would like to shout and scream at me, I’ll be somewhere conveniently far far away and very busy, with no time to talk. If anybody would like to compliment me on my wonderful little rant, I’ll be signing virtual autographs later.
Too much talk!!!!
It ’twas a golden age for the Vikings. Discoveries, booty, and new intellligences…everything one could one. And there was one blot.
Frie Axeswiper. A ultimate mysterious soul that wondered here and there. And one day he tottaly disappeared. Things began to happen. The world began to crawl with creatures.
1 second. Be back. *
Okay, i’m back.
(No more Bleau whatever girl)
Chandra, was the young cook of fourteen on the ship. Actually, she was one of the captain’s daughters, but he couldn’t let anyone know. She was one of his Deroka children, children of May, the young girl who he had left back in Greenland. They should never be revealed of their true bloodline. They had agreed that if Chandra was ever asked of her parents, she must say,
“I am of the Gralon line. My father is Neglerr, and my mother is sweedish.”
Neglerr was one of her father’s friends, who had agreed to act like a father, but her father did duties such as providing food and supplies for her. Sometimes, just for protection she carried around a dagger, which she hardly ever needed.
Yet another interesting thing about her was she was in charge of the “Kidick” as her father called it, a large barrel of healing potions, jewels, etc. If she was to even try to break open the barrel to get to it’s content, her father would know and would
“Thrust her off the end of this ship onto the waiting sea.”
But she had no reason to be afraid. The barrell had already opened for some reason, and some human-rat was slowly devouring this as if it hadn’t a taste of magic in it’s whole life time.
Chandra had a taste of magic in her lifetime, more than once. On a viking girl’s twelfth birthday, she is presented by her mother a “gloria” a potion that is capable of almost everything.
but there was still this secret that must never be told.
Phoenix!!!! There was nothing wrong with my writing.
I agree with KitKat. Too much talk. So I’m starting the story. My story, because that plot makes more sense to me.
Kristin Snorrisdatter climbed onto Leif Eriksson’s ship. Just to explore, of course. She’d never been on this ship before, and it looked beautiful. It also looked sturdy enough to last a long trip to an unknown world, which was what the rumour was Leif was looking for. She climbed into a barrel. Inside, there was nothing but an old, dusty sword. Kristin had no idea what it was doing there.
Just then, the lid of the barrel slammed shut. Kristin jumped and hit the top. Strangely, it didn’t open when she hit it. She tried to pry at it with her fingers, but it refused to budge. After fighting with the stubborn wood for what seemed like hours, she fell back, exhausted. Kristin had to face the harsh reality. She was trapped.
To make matters worse, there were cheers and sounds of feet boarding the ship. Then, with a lurch that knocked Kristin’s barrel over, the boat started to move.
Suddenly, Kristin had an idea so simple that she wondered why she hadn’t thought of it before. Picking up the sword, she hacked at the wood. It gavea little, but didn’t break. She tried like that for an hour, but there wasn’t enough room for her to pick up the momentum she needed for the sword to break through the wood.
She was still trapped.
It wasn’t until days later, when Kristin thought that she would die from hunger, thirst, and boredom, that she started to cry. Then soemone opened the barrel.
A young man peered down into the barrel.
“Captain Leif?” he said. “There’s a girl and a sword where the provisions are supposed to be.”
A tall man with a flowing blonde beard came over. “I could kill you, you know. But I won’t. You can cook for us. Start by opening the right barrel, since Sven is obviously incapable of doing so. It’s that one.”
Kristing climbed out and got to work.
Whoops. I wrote mine before I saw KitKat’s.
Never said there was, KitKat!
I mean on the RRR FF.
So, we finished the Era of Two Plots and are now in the Era of Two Starters (That Happen to be Very Different.) What do we do now? Either we have a plot completely saturated with magic (which is fun) or a plot with magic, but less (which is also fun.) I vote less magic because it’s easier to keep control of and not go crazy with.
I like randomrohanfreak’s plot. She is right. A plot with majic should not be saturated so all the rules of the world go out the window.
Oops, I spelled “majic” wrong.
But it’s kinda cool.
“Magic” in whatever story we decide to do should be spelled “majic.” Just to be annnoying and because it looks cool.
I’m going ahead and writing the next instalment in my plot. (Sorry, KitKat. Maybe we can do your plot and/or starter when we finish the current one or if everyone else hates my idea.)
All the barrels on the ship were packed to bursting, as Kristin soon learned. This made her wonder all the more why the one she’d occupied contained only an old sword. The ship was obviously crammed tight as it was. Kristin was barely able to walk around cooking without half-tripping over a member of the crew.
The men were nice enough, though, considering that she’d been an unintentional stowaway. Perhaps it was because they needed someone who could actually cook on the voyage. She’d tasted Bjorn’s cooking, and he was the best out of the crew. That was the night she’d vowed that none of them would ever have to make their meals again. It just surprised her that Bjorn could manage to burn the food without a fire.
It was morning now, and Kristin had finished preparing breakfast. Sven, the first to eat it all, as usual, looked at her.
“This is good,” he said. Then, on a completely different topic, he asked, “Do you know how to use a sword? Where we’re going, there’s no telling who lived there first. It would be good to know how to defend yourself.”
“I know a little, but not much. I know how to stroke and parry and hold a weapon, but I never learned anything else.”
“Do you have a sword?” When Kristin shook her head no, Sven said, “What about that one in the barrel?”
Kristing went to go get it. It was a good weapon. It felt right, somehow, in her hand. The hilt was wrapped with cracking leather and ended with a bronze pommel. The blade seemed to have been hammered with steel and bronze in a braid. It was silver in colour, with a thread in it of bronze that was just beginning to tarnish.
“Looks good. Old, but good. Your lessons start now.” He raised the blade he carried at his side. “Sword is first. Then you can play with the pretty toys.” He gestured toward the axe at his back and the war-hammer Bjorn carried. Then he attacked.
On the other hand, KitKat had a good idea too. Soooo…
Chandra knew that she could get in trouble for the loss of majic in the Kidick, if anyone found out. Actually, if enough healing potions and fair-wind knots were lost, the whole party would be stranded somewhere in the Sea of Wyrms.
Already, they were moving at a slower pace. Wyrms disturbed by their speed before were now peering curiously at the sides of the ship, as if wondering if it was worth the trouble of turning it over to get to the people and majic inside.
For the hundredth time on this voyage, Chandra wondered if bringing along the Kidick was a good idea. After all, Njord, the sea god, didn’t much care for majic in his oceans. But wyrms and krakens were another matter. Njord didn’t like them either, so Chandra’s father had seen fit to bring the Kidick along, as a service to Njord.
But Chandra didn’t know if it was service. Why then, was a creature eating at the majic within? Chandra was unwlling to go to a higher mage like Franir for help, for fear he should think she wasn’t doing her job right.
So she had to expel this evil on her own. If she succeeded, she would have completed her first solo expulsion of a demon. But if she failed, she did not know what would happen without Franir to help her.
NOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!(my favorite quote in Star Wars :mrgreen)
We need one plot!
let’s vote!
Vote for Pedro. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Yes. We need one plot. So– I vote my plot. (big surprise):mrgreen:
And once we get this plot thing squared awy, do you people want a writing order? We could have it be on person’s turn every two days or something. You snooze, you lose. And if somebody new shows up, we work them into the order wherever we are. Sound good?
I vote for randomrohanfreak.
Hmm, seem’s absolutely chaotic in here…and the funny thing is I didnt even do anything yet.
My work here is already done, lol.