Talk:Their first date is a trip to the blacksmiths

Hi! Good to see you here:)

Very nice additoon to the thread:)

and now I'm waiting to see drunk Faramir:)

-Minx 11 March 2006 18:17 (GMT)

Thank you :)

I'd been trying to write it for ages and getting no where.

I'm now looking forward to a drunk Faramir as well... especially as he seems to have an attraction to the lovely Aragorn (even if he wont admit it) ;)

-Laurelote 11 March 2006 18:51 (GMT)

Nice new segment. Sort of like kid in a candy store... I think Faramir should make him work for it. (Okay, I know, that means I should write a segment here.)

-Bell Witch 11 March 2006 22:24 (GMT)

I must confess I know both angles I would like this story to go, but since I can't follow my own chapter...

<passes pen and paper to Bell Witch> ;)

-Laurelote 12 March 2006 10:03 (GMT)

Oh, this is great...I hoped someone would continue on from there!

-Lexin 12 March 2006 21:45 (GMT)

For Laurelote:

I don't know how you want it to go, but am working on the non-drunken angle. I blame you.

-Bell Witch 13 March 2006 18:24 (GMT)

Lexin: I'm glad you like it. :)

Bell Witch: If you stick with your "I think Faramir should make him work for it." comment I'm sure it'll be great. Blame me all you want, I can't wait! :)

-Laurelote 13 March 2006 19:39 (GMT)

Laurelote wrote:

I must confess I know both angles I would like this story to go, but since I can't follow my own chapter...

Well, of course you can, as soon as a week passes and no one else has posted or claimed the chapter.
But if we all agree we'd be better of without that rule, we can also drop it altogether. It was put in place initially so one author wouldn't run away with a thread and alienate others, but now that the story has grown a bit and there are plenty of threads to choose from, maybe that sort of protection isn't necessary anymore.

-Iris 13 March 2006 20:48 (GMT)

Although knowing where I would like the story to go from my chapter, I would much rather have other people write it because and see what they think. I think that is much more interesting and otherwise I would probably just focus constantly on the one area of the story.

I like the current rule, but maybe it could be changed to something like - You cannot write more than 2 (or 3?) chapters in a row. This would stop people getting too carried away on one area of the story, and allow for situations where if you have a really great idea you can write it all down without having a single long chapter (Like Minx did for the sea monster bit The prophesy is that Faramir will do something else for Thorongil/Aragorn

And you could still fix a time limit in after that... What do you think?

-Laurelote 14 March 2006 09:15 (GMT)

I dunno, maybe that's overcomplicating things. The option of breaking into Long Chapters pretty much comes down to your suggestion. Just think of one long chapter as two chapters in a row by the same author, posted at the same time. That would also leave one option in the middle for another author, and that one week time cap on posting the next chapter for the original author.

I even wonder how much effect a time limit has with the pace the story has at the moment - I mean, by now it would be an uncharacteristic explosion of postings if both options of a chapter would be snapped up within a week.

-Iris 14 March 2006 17:13 (GMT)

Well maybe scrap the idea altogether and let authors write what they want... But leave it as a polite request for them not to take over an area too much... as you say, the story is quite big now with many angles so it wouldn't matter quite as much.

You could always give the author a friendly warning if you think they are taking over and put the rules back into place.

At the moment though, I think a week is pointless, but if you make the limit too long then you're in danger of slowing down the story even more.

-Laurelote 15 March 2006 08:28 (GMT)