☡Secret Shutin Santa Signup 19 ☡ Post Story Requests Here

[Mad Alice]

The SSSS19 is officially launched. Let's make your "stay at home" time writing time
Please post your story requests in this thread and you will be matched to your Santa story recipient .

The Rules
1. All stories written are to be at least 500 words as a minimum. Otherwise there is no constraint to length and they can be as long a literary journey as your muse wishes to take you.

2. If you wish to get your story, you must write a story.

3. Should your muse prove fickle and abandon you partway through your magnum opus, feel free to deliver whatever story crumbs you have managed to pry away from that wee dosty minger before she skived off.

4. Guessing paragraphs can be handed in before the full work.

5. Voting for what story was written by whom will begin as soon as enough samples are turned in.

6. ALL ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE. There are no hard cutoffs. Just get your request in and participate in your fashion. This is a workshop thread so all skill levels are welcome.

I hope you all have had your thinking caps on and come up with your story premise request, because it's finally time to get those requests posted.

The quicker the requests are in the more writing time there will be..

I am thinking mid August for a start to story collection, if that's a comfortable enough time line. If everyone is done sooner we can start the guessing sooner. If you need more time there can be a motion made for any necessary extensions or trimming down of time in mid July.

 

[Joshua Jones]

I'd love to participate.

For my story, I'll give two options. First, for those seeking a more conventional option, I'd like a "punk" genre (cyberpunk, steampunk, etc.) with some throwbacks to detective noir.

For those seeking a greater challenge, I'd like a space opera with a *truly* non-human protagonist. In other words, not a character who is in all respects human in motivation, morality, etc. but has, say, tentacles. I'm looking for an non-human that looks, acts, thinks, and is motivated in completely non-human ways, or in response to situations which are completely alien to humanity. Oh, and please avoid having an alien reflecting on "those strange humans"... I feel like that's been done before...

I look forward to being pushed to develop as a writer!

 

[Mad Alice]

Ping list.
@sarap001
@Phyrebrat
@Joshua Jones
@sinister42
@TheDustyZebra
@Daysman
@The Big Peat
@Elckerlyc
@Victoria Silverwolf
@johnnyjet
@chrispenycate
@Kharn

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Okay, sign me up.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Better leave me out.

 

[Mad Alice]

Okay, sign me up.

Certainly. Just add a story request now.

 

[johnnyjet]

Thanks for taking charge, @Mad Alice!

I would like a story that has something very large and something very small in it.

 

[Mad Alice]

Better leave me out.

You could put in a request @TheDustyZebra and we can see if we have an extra story person. After all you are only one quite small zebra. I'm sure there's room enough.
Or I could draw you a picture of something if you don't really want a story.
Would you like a picture maybe?

 

[Kharn]

I would like a story of an alternate timeline. For an even greater challenge, throw in multiple timeline shifts (real or invented) and make us guess which one is the true breakaway from reality.

 

[Mad Alice]

Thanks for taking charge, @Mad Alice!

I would like a story that has something very large and something very small in it.

Something very large and very small (and not the same something, or we could just give you a tardis). Check.

 

[Mad Alice]

I would like a story of an alternate timeline. For an even greater challenge, throw in multiple timeline shifts (real or invented) and make us guess which one is the true breakaway from reality.

Timey whymyness abounds.
Perhaps we should be reserving the tardis for your story.

 

[Land Under Wave]

I'm new here--how does this work, exactly?

 

[Kharn]

I'm new here--how does this work, exactly?

Sounds like if you want to participate, you request a story idea. @Mad Alice will then randomly assign requested stories to other people. Stories must be minimum 500 words, due in August it sounds like. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, but you get the idea. Like secret Santa, but with stories.

 

[Land Under Wave]

Sounds like if you want to participate, you request a story idea. @Mad Alice will then randomly assign requested stories to other people. Stories must be minimum 500 words, due in August it sounds like. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, but you get the idea. Like secret Santa, but with stories.

Oh, that sounds fun.... Anyone can hop in, right?

 

[Trollheart]

Tentatively, I'll throw my battered old trilby into the ring for this. Let's see, request hmm? A story from the perspective of an animal maybe?

 

[Land Under Wave]

Guess I'll go dig around in my magic idea tub...! But what are 'guessing paragraphs'?

 

[Trollheart]

I'm going to assume (I may be wrong of course) that they're ideas not fully formed? Sort of drafts? No?

 

[Land Under Wave]

Huh. Hard to tell, reading back. Perhaps we're all supposed to compare stories and guess who wrote what?

Or...perhaps they're 'guessing paragraphs' because we have to guess what the phrase means in the first place! Recursion!

 

[Kharn]

I'm going to assume (I may be wrong of course) that they're ideas not fully formed? Sort of drafts? No?

Maybe sneak peeks? I'm not sure but I'm kinda excited. Either tonight or tomorrow night I'll have to dig my muse out of storage and begin the revival process. Fortunately, she hasn't been down too long, I don't think...

 

[Land Under Wave]

Cold storage, then?

My muse is incredibly busy bringing a little order to two different magical worlds right now, but I'm sure she won't mind a change of scene!