litfan10
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Okay, I had an idea that I want to throw out to other writers to see who might be up to try this out.
Back in the eighties, Robert Aspirin edited a book series comprised of novels and short story collections called Thieves' World in which he and a couple of other writers created a world, gave it a history and established some primary characters. They then cut lose, each writing their own stuff sharing the characters and settings. It was great.
I would love to see us create a normal town with a bunch of standard locations and populate it with a bunch of horny characters and then just have fun writing stories using them.
I would be willing to come up with a general sense of the town (map), some location names and make a list of places and open it up to whoever wants to stake claims. For example maybe some writer would love to give life to a pizza shop (love them delivery carriers!) and it becomes the pizza shop and characters all participating writers use when that comes up in their stories when in the mood to write a story in the town.
This thread would maintain the names, places and details that we would share to keep the continuity.
What do you think?
Established locations:
Keep in mind - towns can have multiples of the same type of business! Competition can be healthy and fun
Suggested names for town - Hornoville (Handley Page); Hornith (Litfan10)
Potential town descriptions in posts: 13, 14, and 30
Name/type of place/characters/Post numbers with information/founding writer
Shear Pleasure/ beauty shop/Kitty Wells proprietor, Margaret, Amy, Ty staff/4,6, 38/ Emerald Kitten
Choicest Pearls/ Chinese restaurant/Mr. Fu, Lin Fu/20/ Litfan10
Loosen Up! / Physical Therapy (office and mobile) / (metrosexual) Bob Krackel, Proprietor/15,18/Tx Tall Tales
TBA/Office Building/Darren, security guard (Tiffany girlfriend)/10/Stella Omega
TBA/Drive-in Theatre/TBA/10/Stella Omega
Knight Mart/small grocery store/Cassie Knight Proprietor, Mac the butcher, Jayne Boyd clerk/21/JeffLeigh
Sheer Fun/ women's nightwear/ Mrs. Minter (3 daughters)/30/ Handley Page (would turn over to another writer)
Write Place/expensive techie work in an old office building/ Fred Place proprietor/30/ Handley Page
Back in the eighties, Robert Aspirin edited a book series comprised of novels and short story collections called Thieves' World in which he and a couple of other writers created a world, gave it a history and established some primary characters. They then cut lose, each writing their own stuff sharing the characters and settings. It was great.
I would love to see us create a normal town with a bunch of standard locations and populate it with a bunch of horny characters and then just have fun writing stories using them.
I would be willing to come up with a general sense of the town (map), some location names and make a list of places and open it up to whoever wants to stake claims. For example maybe some writer would love to give life to a pizza shop (love them delivery carriers!) and it becomes the pizza shop and characters all participating writers use when that comes up in their stories when in the mood to write a story in the town.
This thread would maintain the names, places and details that we would share to keep the continuity.
What do you think?
Established locations:
Keep in mind - towns can have multiples of the same type of business! Competition can be healthy and fun
Suggested names for town - Hornoville (Handley Page); Hornith (Litfan10)
Potential town descriptions in posts: 13, 14, and 30
Name/type of place/characters/Post numbers with information/founding writer
Shear Pleasure/ beauty shop/Kitty Wells proprietor, Margaret, Amy, Ty staff/4,6, 38/ Emerald Kitten
Choicest Pearls/ Chinese restaurant/Mr. Fu, Lin Fu/20/ Litfan10
Loosen Up! / Physical Therapy (office and mobile) / (metrosexual) Bob Krackel, Proprietor/15,18/Tx Tall Tales
TBA/Office Building/Darren, security guard (Tiffany girlfriend)/10/Stella Omega
TBA/Drive-in Theatre/TBA/10/Stella Omega
Knight Mart/small grocery store/Cassie Knight Proprietor, Mac the butcher, Jayne Boyd clerk/21/JeffLeigh
Sheer Fun/ women's nightwear/ Mrs. Minter (3 daughters)/30/ Handley Page (would turn over to another writer)
Write Place/expensive techie work in an old office building/ Fred Place proprietor/30/ Handley Page
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