h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah a demo piece could be about anything. I just thought we could kill 2 birds with one stone and get some cool ideas for the story itself out of this. We aren't going to be starting to write it until after the details are sorted out. Actually Flake, since this is your baby in a way, I would suggest that you set the goal for a story and we build around that. (A bit of benign dictatorship never hurt anyone)

I guess so. I'm easy, I'll go along with anything.

Have fun at wedding.

similpost!

Actually, it was If the universe is infinite, then I'm "a" centre's idea. I wish I could take the credit. But I do agree that if the exercise helped the novel in some way it would be better. Either way I'm happy.

May have another volunteer just about to register for hootoo from my old writing group

Excellent, point them in the direction of this thread. Right, I'm off too.

Hi, edinnick here. I'm a a friend of Kiltedjedi from the good-old days back in Scotland. NE'way, he told me about this co-writing-story idea, it sounds like fun. Kilted-Jedi said he'd let me know what to do next, of course, if I'm allowed to join, that'd be cool. I will hope to come back here to keep updated myself on further developments.
Cheers.
cya

nice to see you Nick


Glad you volunteered

Welcome, Nick!

Had any thoughts about the exercise KJ?

How about 2 words

No Carrier?

Even if the exercise isn't explicitly linked to the main novel we still might get some ideas/characters from it.

Anyway, you wanna go with 2 words then?

What does 'no carrier' mean?

TEchnically no carrier means no signal from a communications device such as a modem. I just thought it'd be quite good to have something that could be interpreted in many ways. (Also I think we may be surprised and get soem things we can use for the main story frm this excercise here)

Ah! I thought it may have had something to do with pigeons!

Yea, 'No Carrier' sounds good to me.

There's about 10 of us that want to write now so if we all write a 1000 word story that is someway connected to the words 'No Carrier' then that's 10,000 words of ideas and characters.

Should the stories have to be centred around 'no carrier' or shall the rules be 'as long as you mention them somewhere'?

I wouldn't even make the rules that hard and fast. Perhaps just write whatever that phrase puts into your head. We want to see roughly where people will end up and what sort of stories thaey like to write.


Would it be an idea to start off a new guide entry about this and then drop the link to this convo? we could then post all the stories in there?

Good idea and good idea.

It might be a good idea to make the word limit flexible to 10 or 20% either way.

'No Carrier' is fine with me. What sort of deadline would be appropriate? I have a uni deadline this week so I can't write anything that isn't for that till next weekend, but I'll looking forward to writing something that isn't set in 1908.

Should the first real time convo wait till after the stories are in so we can talk about the various styles and ideas generated, maybe leave it a week after they're all collected togeter to give us a chance to read them all?

Well since Unc is also going to be away, (as well as myself) then 3 weeks seems a reasonable sort of deadline.

If there are no objections I'll set up a book project page linked to Mental meanderings.

Good idea, and I'll link it to here

ok first draft is up at A1072234

Good work KJ!

cheers Flake Thought I'd put a deadline up of 28/06/03(incidentally London meet day), that should give all of us already signed up enough time, and those that haven't yet will have to do it within the 3 weeks