[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Once the sorting-out process is completed, it would be helpful to make a post referencing to a revised [edited] post #1 in this thread, where all the adjusted information is gathered in one place for easy reference.

This is only a suggestion.

Good suggestion. After everything is sorted out, the first post will be updated, and the old one "archived" in a spoiler tag.

Originally Posted by Graham

Makes sense to me. It looks like Katsunami may already be editing post #1, and occasional posts referencing back to that would be helpful.

I'm guessing that this thread will continue with occasional posts reporting progress, and perhaps calling for more authors if we need them.

Graham

I think that would be a good idea, because with the lenght of stories and number of (possible) authors we have now, we're not reaching 200 pages.

Originally Posted by Graham

Instead of commenting within the document folders, how would people feel about my setting up a private Google Community?

It strikes me that this would be an ideal use for Google+, and would allow commenting with automatic notifications and conversational messaging.

I was going to say 'as well as' using the folders, but I think we should keep the comments all in one place.

Advantages: quicker, less formal response process, notifications.

Disadvantages: perhaps harder to keep track of things, informality may lead to hasty responses to the detriment of the review process.

Graham

I normally don't use social media, but as I will be writing stories under a pseudonym, I don't mind setting up social media for that "person". Actually, I intend to.

Are you proposing a Google+ Circle that is private to the authors of the anthology, so we can chat and post messages, and only use dropbox to store the stories in progress? If so, I'm fine with that, but maybe there's another way.

We could use this thread (the one we're in now) for organisational purposes, and create another with regard to the writing and editing. It's possible to tell an author:

"I saw you doing X, around the passage where Y happens..."

Then it could be discussed, giving people who are following the thread a tiny glimpse into the story (a name, a location...), and a glimpse of the writing and editing process as well, without spoiling the entire story. It might be interesting.

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

It's in the mobileread library - The Case Of The Golden Coprolite. Or look up the thread. It's way too tight to edit in to a shorted version. (I call it a micro novel. Michael Moorcock did several, I found out later.)

Maybe 20,000 with Concordance...
(I never did a word count.)

Hm... I wouldn't mind 10K words or maybe even 12K split over two stories, but 20K is a quarter of the anthology's minimum size. I think that this is too long.

However, as we don't yet know how many people will be participating, it could be that the number of stories per person, and the number of available words is increased.

I wouldn't discard these larger stories just yet.

If we manage to find 10 or more people and/or agree on more words per author, it could be that the anthology becomes 400-500 pages. In that case, I wouldn't mind having one very large short story in there somewhere.