Organizational Post VIHello, everyone!
Reminders- The RP for this site-wide can be found: here.
- As stated here, if you want to do more than one character, you're welcome to. Just let us know when you're adding a new character by submitting a character bio in this thread.
- Also, as stated around here, if as an author you need to drop out, just leave a post in the thread letting us know you're dropping out and what you'd like us to do with your character. (If you get busy over the course of this story and you just want to leave temporarily or you need to leave at the moment but you would like the opportunity to hope back in later, just let us know that too.) And if you're an author who would like to pick up the character of an author that dropped out, be sure to ask the author for permission and let us know if any changes have been decided.
Anywho! All writers should have received a message from
Maleficent. about submitting your first chapters. I just want to take a moment to clear some stuff up.
So what we're working on right now in the RP is the first chapter of the story. The following chapter - where you'll be submitting individual chapters - will be each character telling the group how they came to be in the home (so a bit of their back-story). At the end of the first chapter (the first portion of the RP), one of the therapists will ask members of the group something like
Who would like to share what brought them here? and then the next chapter will be someone's individual character's story. So the next chapter can begin something like,
Abby sat up straight and volunteered. "I guess I can go first..." and then she shares her story.
To reiterate, it'll look something like this.
Chapter 1
"So who would like to share what brought them here? What about you, Rollin? Perhaps sharing your story will temporarily keep your mind off food?"
Chapter 2
Rollin huffed and slumped forward. "Well, I guess it's worth a shot." [[And then that narrative begins.]]
* Sorry I'm picking on Rollin. XD
Some things to remember about these first chapters- At the start we stated that chapters should be around 500 words, so that's a good place to aim for. (No worries, though, if you go over or under. It's not a hard and fast rule. Just make sure you keep it within one chapter.)
- If you're working on more than one character, remember that you'll need to submit one of these first chapters for each character you've got.
- Remember to PM your chapters to Maleficent. once you're done and she'll send them over to get edited.
Some questions for you all.- Are character chapters being written in 1st person or 3rd?
- Do you want to break up these character intro chapters with brief returns to group scenes? (For example, if Rollin tells his story, the next chapter will be the group reacting to it and then moving on to someone else.)
- For crediting individual chapters, I was thinking that we'd just add the author's info to the author's note of their individual chapter - like: Written by User Just something really simple. And maybe in the first chapter, we should add which character is whose?
- Is it okay for authors to add romance to the story? (Wouldn't be required for everyone but if someone wants to add that for their character would that be okay?)
If you've got any questions, suggestion, ect. just post and let us know. If I left anything important out, let me know.