Round Robin: Experiment: Flash RR

Sounds good. Well, we can start the story up at anytime, I think that everyone can be caught up by now. I think that the loose ends in the summary, especially the part about Mirabella's sister and meeting up with her needs to be addressed, though. Well, let us forge ahead. :lol
 
Yeah, I just thought there needed to be an end to the conversation between Sam and Al. They conversations between them two don't usually go on for so long with out anybody else there. :p
 
That's why I put one of the rules to increase and encourage longer posts. Personally, 10-15 words didn't seem to be enough. 1-3 sentences of medium to longer length may help move along long conversations, but not allow someone to dominate 1/4 the story in one post.
 
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This is page #95, and in a perfect world the story would restart in #101, which would make this a page full of rules and revisions. So, don't be shy about suggestions, fellow RRers. It would even be cool if Gelfling took a look at all the progress we made!
 
All contributions to the story must be in bold. Ohboy, seeing as us two have been hogging the thread recently do you think we should do one contribution a day so others can have a go? If it is just left bare by other people then maybe e can do more.
 
That is a very good idea. Sadly, when I see that someone else has posted, I feel the need to do even if I did so an hour before. But no, it is not fair to everyone. Tell me if I correctly stated your idea.

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5. Each individual should limit their story contributions to one post per day. This gives others a chance to think of what comes next without being rushed.
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Oh, and you are right. The two of us have done the last 13 posts, over a period of 1.5 days.
 
ohboy said:
That is a very good idea. Sadly, when I see that someone else has posted, I feel the need to do even if I did so an hour before. But no, it is not fair to everyone. Tell me if I correctly stated your idea.

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5. Each individual should limit their story contributions to one post per day. This gives others a chance to think of what comes next without being rushed.
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Yeah, that's right.
 
Sounds good. With a new page a tow, I'll let someone pick up the story, since I was the last one to post a story contribution. Anyways, the screen blacks out in that second of intermission between commericial and television program. So... GO!
 
I really hope that I didn't scare everyone off... I apologize if I started coming on too strong :cry. I guess I'll start. Believe me, I love hearing everyone's posts and I think that everyone that has come is very creative.

As Sam and Al were talking, a strange lady ran up to Sam. "Mirabella!" the woman yelled while running to her.

 
As they stood on the deck, and as Sam watched the drunken Montalvo walk across the deck with his bottle, Al looked at his handlink. "Says here the woman is your other half-sister, and the real sister of one that died. Oh, and good luck taking his bottle away from," Al chuckled.

Don't worry about it, Systemcat. I think I was able to put tie to them together. And I brought the sister back, but in a different context :). There is also a summary on page 4, for quick access. Two actually.
 
"Mirabella, there you are. I have my mother's wedding dress that I want you to try on." Sam looked at the lady, deciding to go with her to gather more information about Montalvo and the death of her half-sister.
 
A little while later, Sam comes out of her room and shows the woman the dress on him.

I reckon this should have quite a fair bit of humour in seeing as Sam has leaped into a woman.
 
Feels good to back :hmm.

"Lookin' good Sam." Sam turned around to see Al looking at him, a goofy grin on his face. "Very funny Al", Sam mumbled.

:lol
 
"I wish there was someway that I could talk you out of this," the woman replied. "Don't you see the way he treats you. The way he treated your half-sister?"
 
The woman started adjusting the straps on the back of Sam's dress, "Better?". She had a look of shock and horror on her face.
"What's wrong?" asked Sam. He had no reply. He turned his head around as there was a mirror behind him and saw that there was two bruises just below his neck as if he'd been strangled.
 
First off, happy 100th post, Crow! :lol

"Oh my... my... Did he do that to you!". Mirabella's half-sister turned Sam around so that they were face to face. "Does he lay his hands on you!?!"
 
Sam's Crow said:
I just thought, Mirabella's other half sister has been in this story for quite a bit of time and we still don't know her name. XD

Your right. Someone could always have Al step in, and give us a bio. Of course, she could be like in the comic strip Dilbert, where no one ever knows the Pointy-Haired Boss's name, and they just call him the Pointy-Haired Boss. You do raise a good point, though. Someone'll have to slide that in.

(Looks at people viewing the post) <hint, hint>
 
Sam's Crow said:
What do you plan on happening at the end of this RR story?

:( To tell you the truth, I do not. I would think of a plot, but since this is a community story, where anyone can post a contribution, it may not go as I would have planned it. I figured that in the short amount of text people have to post, it would take a long time, and at least many pages. But you do raise a good point.
 
Sam's Crow said:
What do you plan on happening at the end of this RR story?

No one person should have a plot line planned out for a Round Robin story. The point of it is that it's a group of people contributing to a story with no idea what the succeeding person is going to contribute and then adjusting and reacting to that. If there's a set plot line, it's lost the intent of a Round Robin. It's just one person dictating their ideas to a group of people with the expectation that they're going to write it.
 
jmoniz said:
No one person should have a plot line planned out for a Round Robin story. The point of it is that it's a group of people contributing to a story with no idea what the succeeding person is going to contribute and then adjusting and reacting to that. If there's a set plot line, it's lost the intent of a Round Robin. It's just one person dictating their ideas to a group of people with the expectation that they're going to write it.
I would agree completely and utterly with that statement. If this thread were to be a government, it would be socialism (theoretical, anyways), in that no one is supposed to have more power than another over the course of the story. However, perhaps such a short amount of typing is losing people. I do find it hard to understand the plot as coherent with 1-3 sentences, and I think that we can't even get a main idea in with that short of length. Having to backtrack certain pages is getting very hard, and I think that this story should be started over on a new thread with longer postings, and not the "flash" ones. Opinons?

For now, though, I'll keep posting here, until I get some feedback.

After the woman helped Sam change back into his original dress, she left, saying that she had to hang it back up.
"Al, who is she?"
"That's Nina Furtavo, your half-sister."
 
The whole point of this Round Robin was to do something out of the norm. To quote the guidelines given in the first post:

This is a sort of modified Round Robin story, where each submission should fall within a range of 5-15 words and they don't necessarily need to be full sentences. (This allows some of the more long-winded of us some wiggle room in our descriptions and entries! ;) )

That was the uniqueness of this Round Robin - that those contributing to it were restricted to using a minimum of words...where a thought or sentence would be stopped before it was completed for the next poster to come along and finish.

Unfortunately, since it seems some of the later contributers neglected to go back to the beginning to read the guidlines that were set out for this RR or even to read what had been added to the story previously, that uniqueness was lost...as was the coherency of the story.

Frankly, I've lost any interest in contributing to this story anymore so I guess my opinion doesn't really count. I would like to say, however, that in the future, if a RR is started, those contributing should take the time to see what kind of guidelines the originator has laid out and adhere to them as opposed to changing them to suit what they want. It would also make sense (and be courteous to those who are already contributing) to read what's been written already and make contributions that would continue the storyline as opposed to veering of in a completely different direction that makes no sense. Yes, it may mean taking time to read something first, but that's exactly what all of the previous contributors have also done...read what's been contributed before adding to it.

I had been enjoying taking part in this right up until it veered so totally off course because of the simple lack of reading what had come before. I wonder if that turned other people off of contributing to it as well.
 
jmoniz said:
The whole point of this Round Robin was to do something out of the norm. To quote the guidelines given in the first post:



That was the uniqueness of this Round Robin - that those contributing to it were restricted to using a minimum of words...where a thought or sentence would be stopped before it was completed for the next poster to come along and finish.

Unfortunately, since it seems some of the later contributers neglected to go back to the beginning to read the guidlines that were set out for this RR or even to read what had been added to the story previously, that uniqueness was lost...as was the coherency of the story.

Frankly, I've lost any interest in contributing to this story anymore so I guess my opinion doesn't really count. I would like to say, however, that in the future, if a RR is started, those contributing should take the time to see what kind of guidelines the originator has laid out and adhere to them as opposed to changing them to suit what they want. It would also make sense (and be courteous to those who are already contributing) to read what's been written already and make contributions that would continue the storyline as opposed to veering of in a completely different direction that makes no sense. Yes, it may mean taking time to read something first, but that's exactly what all of the previous contributors have also done...read what's been contributed before adding to it.

I had been enjoying taking part in this right up until it veered so totally off course because of the simple lack of reading what had come before. I wonder if that turned other people off of contributing to it as well.
(sighs) Your right. I can't believe I've been alienating people here now... Apparantly I ruin things where ever I go. If anybody wants to veer things on course again, I won't do anymore contributing to this story. :banghead I'm done...

Of course, I still stand behind my original statment that it is too hard for me to read one to three sentences and keep understanding the plot! Also, I am aware that I was a "later" contributer, and for that you could have just said my name. I must say, though, I don't appreciate being told all my shortcomings as such. You could have sent this to me in a private message that you think I was going too far, instead of this. (sighs)
 
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