What is the TFP Plotto Machine? (Writers wanted)

Baraka .... just occurs to me ... content might be NSFW or NS my mum. Where could I post it? Members plaground? TE?

 

No ... I wasn't thinking of photos. Just the content of the story. So ... you saying that I'd just post the actual text in a more private area, and put a link to it in the Plotto submission thread?

 

I think I've been explaining myself badly. I'm asking what to do if I want it to be private away from the general public ... if I want to write something that for whatever reason I don't want anybody seeing my stuff except regular TFP members.
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Thing is, there's stuff I would never share in a public forum. Now if need be, I can keep it vanilla, but it'd be nice to have the choice not to.

 

Thanks.

OK. Vanilla unless strong creative need drives me toward darker flavours, in which case I'll put it in my blog. Then also will do a vanilla-ized version for the main thread - I'm appreciating your point about putting submissions in a shared space for comparison.

Best wishes

 

Hi ... I found this I don't know if you've seen it ...... an instruction booklet by William Wallace Cook, giving extra hints about using the plot generator

Unlocking the Plotto Plot Generator

 

I have mine ready but don't want to be the first virgin to the altar. It's been through 3 pretty extensive rewrites and if I screw with it any more I'm afraid I'll write out anything I still like about it. A bad habit of mine. Is anyone else close to finishing and ready to post? Let me know and we can hold hands as we jump into the pool together.

 

I jumped.

 

Almost, will finish this weekend.

 

I'll add one. I think I'll call it "Elk".

 

Mine's up. Not sure if I mixed in enough of the occult, but I tried. I'm actually half way through another which is more occultish. I might post it too, unless that's against the rules.

 

Just joined Scribophile. Can't wait for the opportunity to spend a hunk 'o time there. 1st short story I read made me realize just what an amateur I am. Hopefully, the site will aid in my improvement as a writer.

 

the outputs in response to the outputs were very interesting, comrades.
i enjoyed reading them.
nicely played.

i am wondering if folk are open to the possibility of lines being lifted from their pieces and twisted in subsequent pieces? i have found it to be an interesting game to play in the past with a group of folk, and it has the perverse effect of tying together at some level the quite disparate pieces folk are doing. plus it adds another set of potential twists into the game.

the idea would be that we can lift a sentence or two from one or more stories from the previous week and do something else with them. they can be rearranged or scrambled---but they would need to function in a basically different way from the initial context (so, say, a sentence about an elk in one context might refer to a painting of an elk on the wall of an apartment in another).

 

Sounds good to me.

 

Interesting idea. I guess any kind of recognisable "echo" from the previous week's stories would work? It would be an interesting twist to try and include something from every story posted, for sure.

Sometimes it's the constraints that drive the innovation and creativity!