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These are the people who volunteered for the first round:

E.M.R

Pablo Báez

Bradley Trapp

H. A. Titus

Hamish Kavanagh

Tabitha Pearson

J. Fishwick

Renni Grier

Jeffrey Salem

Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️

S M Garratt

MillennialSaint

Mary J Hunt

Rhys Hickmott

Nuno Pinto

Mercedes de Santiago

If you need to back out, let me know,

Brent Robbins
is our first alternative.

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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:

Specials

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.

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I'm game. Will read the rules now.

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Excited about this!

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