Ouroboros

^ Oh my days it's incredible. :shock:
Just... wow, Rubes :tehe:

yeah, posting order might be a good idea. :think:
I think I'd like to read other people's chapters before I do my own. I know everyone has different styles, but I'm scared of spoiling the second chapter if I do it wrong. :shifty

that's amazing, Ruby :yah

and I know it's artistic nudity, really, not meant to be 'explicit' in that sense, but still >_> we have to take that into consideration.

And I agree with the taking time to have several chapters written before posting them.

^blur the nipples. Srsly. :lmfao
RUBY OMFG.
THAT IS AMAZING.

It's totally setting a mood for the story.
And omfg your theme too :XD

Hmm I agree about having some kind of posting order...
but how?

I'm sure a few of us already have a few ideas about theirs [me one of them :tehe:] but we have to tie it in and stuff.

I sort of have some ideas but... not...really. D:

Also, Rubes, I love it. ;D I love the clouds. It makes it dreamy. :weird

The banner is amazing. :cheese:
I like the birdies.

I agree that we need at least an approximative posting order, a bit of pressure on people to write isn't all that bad. :shifty
But there's no actual pressure to write right now, only if I were you I would because might lose your ideas with time, and yeah, though people who think they have the time and the ideas crystallized enough could offer to go before other people who only have a vague idea about their chapters. The story itself sounds like it doesn't require much collaboration, although I think it's a bit the contrary because it's such a complicated structure and because the best way to get inspiration for a story is to talk about it.

I'll tell you a bit about where I got with my chapters, maybe you'll find it useful because the main character is "supposedly" the writer of the story, or you might not. He's this old wretched man, living in a small Vila by the Mediterranean, he's a retired high school teacher and he feels like he's a bit better than most people and that he didn't end up being a great writer because of the zeitgeist. He's also lonely so he starts reading stories about obscure mythologies and flatters himself by making up all kinds of mental games and puzzles.
That's all. :/
I'm scared that it will sound too intellectual-sy boring for a first chapter.

Sorry I'm a loser and haven't been here! :cheese:
The banner looks incredible. :]]]]]

I'd like to go later in the posting order, if possible. My writing style is kind of... I don't know. What I'm getting at is basically what Sam said. I don't want to ruin anything. So. :']

^NOT LOSER :x

TBH, I don't have any ideas :shifty Well, I do have a floating one, which I'm itching to write, but I think I'm just gonna go with the flow. :con: (besides, my idea actually needs more time and research . . . and thinking, cause I wanted to write it since . . . forever).

And I don't really think so, Andy :think: I think it'll be quite interesting I'd like to read something like that. -likes stories about old lonely men- :shifty

- ugh. messed up.

:cheese:
You two, stop being ridiculous.
If I thought you could ruin the story I wouldn't have approached you about it in the first place. :/

Thank you for the enthusiasm Fatma. (:
Generally speaking, I don't want to rush anybody to write, because generally speaking I'm quite a nice person, but I don't want the story to die either.

Welcome :tehe:
And it won't die :con: -secretly hooks IV- :shifty

And how will this work? Interlocked pre-decided ideas, or the same thing, but just spontaneous (somewhat like a prompt)?

Explain "interlocked pre-decided ideas" to me a little.
:shifty

Each author decides the idea of her chapter, and discusses it with the author writing the chapter following hers and they . . . 'fit' their chapter ideas together. (could be only the dream ideas or the reality ones . . . well, either way, it's kinda both, right? since the dream /is/ the reality :shifty)

^ I was thinking it'd go something like that. I haven't got any ideas yet because the reality of my chapter has to fit with the dream that preceeds it - am I correct?

That does make sense, and now we're faced with the problem of setting up a posting order again.

I was thinking about this yesterday as I was taking a walk, it would be interesting if each of us mentioned a snake at one point in the story. Nothing too obviously or important in the course of the chapter, but a recurrent symbol/image in all of them.

Edit: And I've found a quote from Borges that sounds like this:
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."

^We can put that in the summary?
Can we do a posting order that's like... really random? Like, put Liz near the end 'coz she said so, but for everyone else... like, make Andy pick out of a hat :XD So we have no control over who precedes us, so we really have to channel creativity in connecting our chapter with theirs.

^suggestion bug XD

^ i adore that idea isa :tehe: although knowing my luck i'll end up like second and have a panic attack and die :file: I love the snake idea too, i was trying to incorporate one into the banner but it kind of failed

Hopefully the interlinking will help me get some form of idea for my chapter

I did pick out of a hat, and the order turned out to be:
1)Andy
2)Megan
3)Alice
4)Sam
5)Isa
6)Ruby
7)Liz
8 )Fatma
I hope it works for everybody, but we can still change places if we really have to.

It's okay if the snake's not in the banner, it's more mysterious this way. Especially if we assume that at least a few of the readers don't know what the Ouroboros is before reading the story. Yes, we could put that in the summary, I just should figure out from which of his short stories the quote is first. And I've borrowed a novel called "The Serpent" from the library, it's fantastic-mythology-psychoanalysis-related and I need to read it these days.

kafka.:

I did pick out of a hat, and the order turned out to be:
1)Andy
2)Megan
3)Alice
4)Sam
5)Isa
6)Ruby
7)Liz
8 )Fatma
I hope it works for everybody, but we can still change places if we really have to.

It's okay if the snake's not in the banner, it's more mysterious this way. Especially if we assume that at least a few of the readers don't know what the Ouroboros is before reading the story. Yes, we could put that in the summary, I just should figure out from which of his short stories the quote is first. And I've borrowed a novel called "The Serpent" from the library, it's fantastic-mythology-psychoanalysis-related and I need to read it these days.

Sounds like a lovely inspiration-thing :tehe:

WOOT! SMACK IN THE MIDDLE :lmfao

Btw, is there a set format?
Like, all in first person, or all in third, etc. etc.?

I think not, because I want the chapters to be different and some people work better in first others better in third. I'm indecisive, I don't want to limit anybody too much and at the same time I can't write what I have in mind in first because I want the narrator to softly mock the character a bit, so I'm writing in third omniscient and peeking into the thoughts of the character. So, I don't know, how do you dream? Do you narrate your dreams to yourself as you dream or do you just dream it?

YES LAST -fist in air-

Ahem. . . :shifty