What is the TFP Plotto Machine? (Writers wanted)

I am good with this.

 

nice.
so when Baraka_Guru spins the wheel and posts another plotto, we can add the constraint as amuses or as helps move the piece along.

 

i was thinking: new plotto, new material but with the option of taking lines from the previous stories and varying them.

 

Yes, an option. But a new plot.

Edit: or a prerequisite, that's fine by me.

 

i think we should go for it. i think folk seem interested in working with lines from the previous stories and likely will. so maybe leave it optional for this round so folk can feel their way into doing it?

 

The option of working with lines from Output #1 stories. Is that a line from all of them or from whichever one(s) we choose to include?

 

i would do whichever works better. the more you use the more interesting the constraint, though.

 

Where are we putting these stories?

 

On the Plotto Output threads in this forum.. we are on Plotto Output #2 now.

 

Poetry --> here's the thread for this go-round.
you'll see the constraints at the top.

The TFP Plotto Output #2 | The TFP

look forward to your move in the game.

enjoy.

 

Over the last couple of weeks, reading everyone else's offerings, I have come to realize that my writing is bunk. Often clumsy and/or forced, it just doesn't stack up against what I've read so far. Ah well. Maybe next week.

 

Hi ... your realization sounds very much like mine about my own work.

"Maybe next week" ... Baraka_Guru helped me past my maybes - got my ass in gear. The NaNoWriMo website confirmed my worst fears ... that what I write may well suck. I went ahead and wrote it anyway (NaNoWriMo Novel = 50000 words = kind-of-yay me). And it did, indeed suck.

And each week, I look at it, and it looks worse and worse and worse and worse. The only consolation is that I am improving critical skills to notice, and thereby have a chance to begin to fix more and more and more and more.

During the last few weeks I have been forcing myself to produce content here and on a writing forum, and the process is making me notice my own microscopic improvement, week by week and sentence by sentence, to compare 'me now' with 'me three weeks ago'. I am no longer only stacking up against Other People, but with my developing self, too; learning to increasingly see differences between us as differences in choice, rather than as evidence of my genetic inferiority.

Also, it occurs to me, that when YOU post your story, I know I'll read it and will have niggly feelings of "I wish I'd thought of that", and "that's deep - I wish I were less shallow"; and if, by any chance you write something that I simply don't understand, it'll just mean that I am uneducated in reading and in living. As you remember all the thoughts and feelings you've had about others' work ... please be assured that I'll likely be having some similar ones about yours.

And ... er .... quite aside from notions of 'quality' ... I'm dang curious to know What Kind Of World you'll share ... I mean, lets look at what Bodkin, Baraka, Jonie, Alistair, FreetoFly, Poetry, Roachboy have done ... just the worlds they've shared. Not the writing quality, just the unexpected boxes they've opened. I do hope you'll write something.

Take care

 

Altermoose. Do you enjoy writing? Would you like to get better at it?

If so, then just do it. Start somewhere and press on. No one here is going to judge your writing skills. We're all with you on the same path.

 

Thanks for the boost, friends. After a brief pity party, I have decided to soldier on. I've just about completed an offering for #2. Should be putting it up sometime tonight. And I shall endeavour to remember that the only way to get better is to actually start doing in the first place.