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Originally Posted by Graham
It's an interesting idea. I've just been testing it against the MR guidelines. It sounds as though any sharing of the stories during the review phase would need to be by PM, though critique in this sub-forum would presumably be fine.
It's difficult to see how the whole project could be discussed here without it being self-promotion, but perhaps that's OK as it's not intended to be an anthology for sale.
Do you think it would be worth a quick PM to the mods to check that the planned process and goal will be acceptable?
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Maybe it would be best to PM one of the mods; I'll do so in a moment.
I think discussion of the stories themselves would need to be done using PM's, otherwise they will be all spoiled for MR members that are following the thread, but I think general discussion on story writing could be done in this thread.
For example, a more experienced author such as Vydor sees someone else doing something which could be considered bad writing, he could raise that as a point to watch out for.
Like: I've seen one of the authors do [XYZ] in his story, which is not a good idea because:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...
It also works the other way around; other participants can be asking advice.
In such a way, no plot points would be given away, and all participants (and lurkers) benefit from this. I certainly would. I wrote a lot of stuff during the last 15 years, but that was all technical material, manuals, and documentation; I never wrote fiction apart from some tryouts.
Indeed, the anthology is not intended to be for sale. It would be... complicated.... to split the royalties of a €2.99 book between 10+ writers, especially if the anthology is published at several places at once. I certainly wouldn't want to do it. My motivation to try something like this is to lower the bar for people to try and write something, having it reviewed and (some sort of) proofread/edited by others, and then
actually get it out there, learning as much as possible in the process.
Therefore, I'd appreciate it if a few of the more experienced authors of this subforum would participate; it would be quite instructive.
As each member will get an EPUB copy of the book, it will have to be taken on good faith that they will keep the anthology posted for free (or "sell" it for $0.00), and leave the stories in there as they were at the time of finalizing the book; otherwise we might end up with 10 different versions of the same book, which is obviously undesirable.