My stories on Ficlets.com
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robotech_masterTime for me to stump for readership (and, hopefully, writership) on ficlets.com, an interactive writing site of which I've gotten quite fond.
Ficlets is a round-robin-writing site where you write stories 1024 characters at a time. (If you consider a "word" to be five characters, plus an extra for a space, that works out to approximately 170 words, or 1.7 drabbles.)
All you need to log into ficlets is either an AIM account (Ficlets.com is part of the AOL network so it's able to authorize based on AIM ID/password) or an OpenID account, from GetOpenID.com or some other provider. It's all completely free and easy.
The theory is that you'll write a chunk, then someone else will, and someone else will after that. Stories can branch, too; if you don't like the way someone else took the tale, you can take it in your own direction. In actual practice, a lot of people just use it as a notebook to whack out their own single-writer stories. And so most of the time I end up having to write my own sequels because nobody else is bothering. This leads to a vicious cycle as people assume that I don't want someone else to interrupt me with their attempts at continuation. This saddens me, because a lot of the fun of ficlets is the collaboration process.
So, I'm going to list a few of the stories I've written. I hope that, even if you're not interested in continuing them, you'll at least go and read and rate them. The more traffic they get, the more likely they are to pop up on the "Most Popular" or "Most Active" ficlets displays on the front page, which means more ficleters will see them.
One of my favorite interactive stories, which I steadfastly refuse to continue myself because I've had so much fun splitting it with other people, starts with this one:
Other stories I've written and didn't link here can be found from my Ficlets.com author page
Anyway, hope you'll find it interesting enough to check it out, and maybe kick in a K of writing here and there. I've had fun writing the stuff, so I hope you'll have fun reading it.
Ficlets is a round-robin-writing site where you write stories 1024 characters at a time. (If you consider a "word" to be five characters, plus an extra for a space, that works out to approximately 170 words, or 1.7 drabbles.)
All you need to log into ficlets is either an AIM account (Ficlets.com is part of the AOL network so it's able to authorize based on AIM ID/password) or an OpenID account, from GetOpenID.com or some other provider. It's all completely free and easy.
The theory is that you'll write a chunk, then someone else will, and someone else will after that. Stories can branch, too; if you don't like the way someone else took the tale, you can take it in your own direction. In actual practice, a lot of people just use it as a notebook to whack out their own single-writer stories. And so most of the time I end up having to write my own sequels because nobody else is bothering. This leads to a vicious cycle as people assume that I don't want someone else to interrupt me with their attempts at continuation. This saddens me, because a lot of the fun of ficlets is the collaboration process.
So, I'm going to list a few of the stories I've written. I hope that, even if you're not interested in continuing them, you'll at least go and read and rate them. The more traffic they get, the more likely they are to pop up on the "Most Popular" or "Most Active" ficlets displays on the front page, which means more ficleters will see them.
One of my favorite interactive stories, which I steadfastly refuse to continue myself because I've had so much fun splitting it with other people, starts with this one:
- Trapped in the Desert
- Solar Arrival (a branch of Trapped in the Desert)
- A Clean Getaway (continuation of Solar Arrival that was split off due to a technical fault)
- Aegis Library (short one looking at the ethics of the setting)
- Marauded! (one of the stories I'm currently continuing)
- Car Talk (a response to a "ficlet challenge;" requires login to view)
- Kiss and Ride
Other stories that have been written for a while, some of them actually started by other people and continued from there: - The Firefox (features an OS-tan image that's a bit PG-13ish, may not be safe for work)
- The Birthday Race (an interesting tale that soon went in directions its original creator had never anticipated)
- Terrarium (involves unicorns, though funny thing is I'm not the one who introduced them)
- A Temple for a Goddess (actually, the first entry was Not Quite Rapunzel, but I went ahead and wrote a prequel to it afterward)
- Girl Meets Car (another offshoot of the same challenge that spawned "Car Talk" above, this one started in the most innocent of ways: I was amused by the first post, so I made a sequel with a different angle on it. Then
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liralen replied, and I replied again, and I think has gone places neither of us expected so far. :)
This was my first story in a transforming robots universe of my own creation, adding a dash of Captain Power and some other interesting elements. Currently it's stuck at a cliffhanger. Could someone please continue it for me? :)
And here's a couple I've had some collaboration with
liralen on.Other stories I've written and didn't link here can be found from my Ficlets.com author page
Anyway, hope you'll find it interesting enough to check it out, and maybe kick in a K of writing here and there. I've had fun writing the stuff, so I hope you'll have fun reading it.
