Open-World Fiction: questions answered (hopefully)
Choose your next main character.
These are the people who volunteered for the first round:
If you need to back out, let me know, Brent Robbins is our first alternative.
Slack
If you are a paid subscriber to either Literary Salon or Bookmotion, I’ll send you an invite to the members Slack where we are building discussion groups for the various Literary Salon projects. You do not need to be a paid subscriber to participate in Open World. Information will be shared in posts like this, and the DMs are open. If you want a paid membership but your financial situation makes that impossible, DM me, and I’ll set something up for you.
If you’re interested in becoming a paid subscriber, though, I’m running a special:
World Building
First-round authors have it easy. Follow the rules but write what you want. Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️ will be compiling Franklin lore for future writers to follow. We have a Frankling Worldanvil Bible being built!
Answers to Your Questions
E.M.R asked about the intent to publish all in one day and whether this should be spread over a few days. That’s absolutely worth heavy consideration, but here’s my thinking:
There will be 32 stories in a round, but each path through the phase is only 5 stories deep. When we publish, I want a reader to be able to complete a path in one sitting. They can then start over and choose a different path however many times they wish.
Mary J Hunt asked about the names listed, and yes, these are the authors for the first round. Mary that includes you. If your name is listed above and you can’t participate in this first round, please let me know.
S M Garratt asked about timelines for writing. I don’t yet have deadlines for anyone, but we do need this published this summer, so those deadlines will have to go out before too long. I leave for vacation at the end of this month, and I want the dates set before then. In the meantime, we’re nailing down the concept and making sure that the original volunteers are still interested.
Haly will be in charge of worldbuilding and will be in charge of highlighting any problems that arise. (Reading with notes.) Alert: Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️
Jenean McBrearty also asked about the list of names, which are the writers for the first round. It’s possible we’ll have people drop out, but we’ll also need writers for round two (the next 32 stories to be set in the fall). The voting I talked about will be done by the 16 writers.
—Thaddeus Thomas
I'm game. Will read the rules now.
Excited about this!