Collaborative Story Idea

[mythtrav16]

I'll confess that I never watched "Quantum Leap" or "Sliders", but my understanding of those shows is basically that in every episode, the lead characters suddenly find themselves transported to a random time and place, and quickly have to figure out how to get by in the foreign culture they find themselves in, until their next transition,

So what about an open story thread in this vein? You have one or more characters who, for some reason, teleport from situation to situation.

Every author who is interested in the story gets to write one chapter, then it is somebody else's turn. The settings can be anything for here and now in the real world, to the caveman days, to a scene from the Star Trek or Lord Of The Rings universe. The only rules are:

1. The main characters can't be killed off.
2. The story must end with the main character(s) transitioning off to a new setting, but with no details about what it is (that's for the following author to decide)

Seeing as this is Literotica, the story would have to be sexually themed, so perhaps the trigger for the transition is the main character having an orgasm? Or perhaps when he/she falls into a post-coital slumber, he/she always wakes up somewhere else.

Of course the main problem with this idea would be keeping a canon thread for the story, otherwise you'd wind up with a bunch of authors writing stories that might well conflict with each other, or sever relevent plot threads, and no way of knowing what order they are supposed to go in.

So perhaps there would need to be procedure for passing the torch. The next author in the chain is picked by the most recent published author in the chain. The prospective authors who want to write the next chapter apply to him, be it through PMs or whatever, and he picks one. Then when the next chapter is uploaded, the current author posts a link to the next "official" chapter as a comment to his own chapter, so readers can follow the proper thread.

 

[loquere]

I'll confess that I never watched "Quantum Leap" or "Sliders", but my understanding of those shows is basically that in every episode, the lead characters suddenly find themselves transported to a random time and place, and quickly have to figure out how to get by in the foreign culture they find themselves in, until their next transition,

So what about an open story thread in this vein? You have one or more characters who, for some reason, teleport from situation to situation.

Every author who is interested in the story gets to write one chapter, then it is somebody else's turn. The settings can be anything for here and now in the real world, to the caveman days, to a scene from the Star Trek or Lord Of The Rings universe. The only rules are:

1. The main characters can't be killed off.
2. The story must end with the main character(s) transitioning off to a new setting, but with no details about what it is (that's for the following author to decide)

Seeing as this is Literotica, the story would have to be sexually themed, so perhaps the trigger for the transition is the main character having an orgasm? Or perhaps when he/she falls into a post-coital slumber, he/she always wakes up somewhere else.

Of course the main problem with this idea would be keeping a canon thread for the story, otherwise you'd wind up with a bunch of authors writing stories that might well conflict with each other, or sever relevent plot threads, and no way of knowing what order they are supposed to go in.

So perhaps there would need to be procedure for passing the torch. The next author in the chain is picked by the most recent published author in the chain. The prospective authors who want to write the next chapter apply to him, be it through PMs or whatever, and he picks one. Then when the next chapter is uploaded, the current author posts a link to the next "official" chapter as a comment to his own chapter, so readers can follow the proper thread.

Great idea. I love it.

 

[TheLustWriter]

sounds fun, as soon as I get a submission approved, I wouldn't mind taking a stab at it.

 

[aaron23062]

I was in a round robin writing circle once. We had a list of writers in advance, in a set sequence, so everybody knew where to snail mail the papers when they'd finished their bit. It was back in the day, 1981, there was no internet, and I had an electric typewriter from Sears. One guy didn't type and his handwriting was almost as bad as mine. I'll try to remember some of our rules.

No fair creating seven new characters and have them run off in seven directions. Bring in more characters, sure, but continue to follow the main character.

Minimum length was four double-spaced typed pages. 1000 words, right?

The Seed Writer originated the story with initial settings, main and secondary characters, but did NOT have a bible to follow outlining subsequent plot for the following writers. Everybody could take it wherever, but...

No fair making someone else's contribution a dream sequence and thus disregard previous plot points!

It seems like we had other rules but that doesn't matter. Setting rules for this game is the critical thing. Agreeing on the mechanics of transition is important. Quantum Leap was time travel within the life span of the main character solely to avoid sending him back to Ancient Rome or wherever. He lept into the place of someone alive in that time. Everybody saw him as that person, not himself, so he had to behave as that person. He had a friend back in the Present Day who interacted as a hologram only he could see and hear.

Sliders is a dimension shift story. Every decision results in a new universe, parallel to our own, which exists just as much as ours. The group slid between universes, sometimes solving a problem, other times just trying to survive in an alternate reality until the remote-control counter hit zero and they could slide out to the next dimension. They couldn't slide out early, and if they missed the countdown, they'd be stuck wherever they were. Depending on how far back in history the universe split off from ours, they'd face more- or less-weird situations.

If we can define the methodology; time jumps, dimension shifts, soul exchanges, what have you, then I'd be interested in trying, too!