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Post by mbt66 on Dec 6, 2015 13:41:17 GMT
One of the advantages of this forum compared to the official Big Finish forum is that we should be able to post our story ideas without fear of a BF moderator telling us off.
Over in a TV Doctor Who thread called "If you were show runner on Doctor Who" christmastrenzalore has put together some great story ideas. His story has already given me ideas that I would like to share with him and others and think that a forum for story development would be fun.
So please Divergent Universe could we have a writers room?
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Post by jasonward on Dec 6, 2015 13:47:07 GMT
The rule of thumb we use to judge if a sub forum is justified is then number of posts a topic gets. If people start posting stories ideas and writings I'm sure we can accommodate a space for those posts.
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Post by glutamodo on Dec 6, 2015 14:06:36 GMT
Yeah, over and over we've worked to eliminate and combine boards and sub-boards that have not shown a purpose. We are always open for change though and if there's enough traffic to necessitate such a board we will provide it.
Regarding the topic of story ideas though, I have to say that myself, personally, think that posting such things falls somewhere between wishful thinking and fan-fic... and even if it's the greatest idea in the multiverse, most writers won't touch it... out of fear of "ownership" claims. I've had a couple of such story ideas I've let run loose in my cranium over the years but I let them stay there.
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Post by Tony Jones on Dec 6, 2015 15:35:41 GMT
I was going to put out a poll for would be writers. I don't want to write fanfic, but it has a place. I'd like somewhere writers could share encouragement, plug things and maybe share drafts for feedback. Not sure how many would be up for it. My thoughts would be sub boards for fanfic and other fiction.
And don't expect and BF voices in the fan fic area as they don't want any claims of copyright infringement.
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Post by Tony Jones on Dec 6, 2015 15:36:58 GMT
We could try a writers' room for a few weeks, and if it fails to gather pace fold it back into community. Or it could be a set of subboards under community
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Dec 6, 2015 17:56:48 GMT
We could remove the empty big finish writers forum
And just have a general writers one
And sub forums and threads go in there?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 1:23:10 GMT
Yeah, over and over we've worked to eliminate and combine boards and sub-boards that have not shown a purpose. We are always open for change though and if there's enough traffic to necessitate such a board we will provide it. Regarding the topic of story ideas though, I have to say that myself, personally, think that posting such things falls somewhere between wishful thinking and fan-fic... and even if it's the greatest idea in the multiverse, most writers won't touch it... out of fear of "ownership" claims. I've had a couple of such story ideas I've let run loose in my cranium over the years but I let them stay there. It depends how vague they are. John Dorney's upcoming You Are the Doctor sounds quite a bit like a very, very vague concept where I pitched a Find-Your-Fate episode, I floated around the old Big Finish forums. It'll make me clap my hands like an idiot if he managed to wrap his own story around that. We could remove the empty big finish writers forum And just have a general writers one And sub forums and threads go in there? Sounds reasonable. I'm no expert on administration (in fact, I'm not even a novice), but all it would require is a name change surely? It'd be lovely to see what people can come up with out of their own heads. |
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Post by Tony Jones on Dec 7, 2015 17:28:41 GMT
I've put a poll up if you want to vote
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