Planet Writer's Group?

[CosmicPal]

I'm going to throw this out there and see what sort of response we get out of this.

I was thinking of getting a Planet Writer's Group going. It is open to any Planeteer with an interest in writing general fiction of any genre. It's that simple.

We could collaborate online using a sharing site such as Google Docs. If you're interested, reply to this thread and/or you may PM me.

[Fat Elvis]

Might want to talk to Misplaced Cheifs Fan. He actually is a writer and has several books published, if I'm not mistaken. I know one or two is based on the Gauntlet univserse.

[cron912]

I would be interested.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by cron912

I would be interested.

Sounds good. I will PM you with the details.

[CaliforniaChief]

I'm published but not for fiction...but I do have an interest in writing fiction. So yeah, I'm interested.

[KcFanInGA]

I would like to get in on this. I have put writing on the backburner, just lost all motivation. But I can write, and do it well, I assure you. Let me know please, I believe I can add to the effort.

[UsualSuspects]

Just wow!

[CosmicPal]

Planet Writer's Group interested members at this time:

Stanley Nickels
cron912
KCFaninGA
CaliforniaChief
Chieficus
badgirl
luv
CosmicPal

If anyone else is interested, please feel free to reply to this thread or PM me directly.

I'll contact all the interested writers. I suppose we will use Google docs as a sharing medium.

Do you guys want this to be a weekly or bi-weekly collaboration?

[Stanley Nickels]

I'm interested. I've never done anything of the sort, but I'm an avid reader, have a degree in journalism, and a pretty good amount "available" time.

I'm down, but might just need some light tutoring.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels

I'm interested. I've never done anything of the sort, but I'm an avid reader, have a degree in journalism, and a pretty good amount "available" time.

I'm down, but might just need some light tutoring.

Great! Glad to have you in the group. I'll PM you with the details.

[CosmicPal]

To the interested Planet Writer's members:

Please PM your email address, so I can send you an invite. I've set up a private online group: http://planetwriters.ning.com/

Thanks,
CP

[patteeu]

Wut are the requiments? Does we haf to right gud to bein the righters grupe?

[Stewie]

This could be good if the stories turn out like this tandem writing assignment:

"The following was actually turned in by two of my English students:
Rebecca - last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted:"


STORY: (first paragraph by Rebecca)

At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.
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Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
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He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth - when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?"she wondered wistfully.
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Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"
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This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent.
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Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have camomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of ****ING TEA??? Oh no, I'm such a air headed bimbo who reads too many Mills &
Boon novels."
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Asshole.
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Bitch.
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[CosmicPal]

For those of you who are interested in the Group, I sent you an invite. Please let me know if you've received your invite.

Also, do not sign up with your ChiefsPlanet username. In order for us to present an unbiased group discussion, it is best not to use your ChiefsPlanet username.

Thx

I'm a hobby writer but not the fiction short story type. I should probably pass but best of luck to each of you.

[Demonpenz]

There once was a man, rich in spirit, but poor in the bank account. He went to aldi's one day to buy some loops of fruit in hopes it would be onsale. He hoped and pray one day he would be able to provide enough money to buy the actual fruit loops to his kids. TUCAN SAM TUCAN SAM his kids would yell in hopes of seeing that beautiful tasty bird that provides a balanced breakfest along with fruity cereral treat. The man got fed up with his kid and went out to the local buss stop and snapped 3 peoples neck steven segal style and took their money and bought his kids some ****ing fruit loops so they would shut up.