ISBW #73 - Listener Questions
Listener requests for topics!
- Promo: Daughter of the Sun
- Writer Beware
- Preditors and Editors
- Promo: Things are Looking Up
- Pimping other projects, like This Day in Alternate History
July 23, 2007 | Mur Lafferty | Comments 5
About the Author: I am a writer and podcast producer, writing for magazines and RPGs. I am a wanna-be fiction writer with several short fiction, comic scripts, and one novel sale. Playing For Keeps will be out August, '08.
wtw | Jul 24, 2007 | Reply
Just for the young person who wrote in, this may be inspiring: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/26/1161749253958.html
ShadowsEdge | Jul 24, 2007 | Reply
Hey Mur -
And now I’ve forgotten what it was!
I thought of something I wanted to comment on as I was listening to the podcast - but stupid me put off coming over and posting it.
Ah well - instead, I’ll just say “Keep up the great work!”
Nodens | Aug 6, 2007 | Reply
I have had poor experiences with the group story-writing thing. Several people and I were posting contributions to a Lovecraftian story and it was coming along very well. The problem occurred when a few of the writers decided to take the story to a different theme, that of a typical Steven King story. I have no bone against Steven King personally but his stories are often quite different than Lovecraft’s stories. The effect was that a lot of the Lovecraftian writers stopped posting, and because the story was catered under a Lovecraftian fan site, the story died.
For this to work I think there has to be a manager, a DM to use a gaming term, whom would keep some kind of focus. He or she wouldn’t control the content but would guide and protect the story.
JoMo
Gnorb | Sep 3, 2007 | Reply
What was that about an “Instant Cowboy: Just Add Water” story?
I decided to take the challenge and write a story based on that title. Because I couldn’t think of anything right off the bat, I decided to ask a few people for random story elements. Here’s what I got.
* Sex scandals
* Seal hunting
* The old lady had it in for him.
* Rotting fish
* Burning greenhouse
* A large, strange and deep hole that suddenly appeared somewhere.
* A monkey that’s a junkie
* “…and she was hardly aware of what lurked around the corner.”
The story, therefore, includes all these elements, and was put together in about three hours. It’s not exactly what I would call a master work, but it was certainly a fun exercise. Thanks for the idea!
Here’s the story, by the way: Instant Cowboy: Just Add Water. Hope you like it.
Gnorb | Sep 3, 2007 | Reply
err… I screwed up the link. Let’s try this again..
URL (in case it’s just not linking right):
http://www.gnorb.net/writing/20070903/instant-cowboy-just-add-water/#story