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writing monk now

Awesome Thucy... look forward to reading it.

we have somewhat of a problem - france basically cleaned house once joan of arc showed up.

she entered the scene 20 years before the wars end and from there on out the french just won battle after battle.

its a lot less convincing that the monk would want to save her just to save her. i'm trying to come up with a reason he would...

maybe we should drop joan of arc and have him go back to agincourt or something else? i dunno. or make him.. english? its too bad - the "i love joan of arc" story arc would have been great

anyway you can think to salvage it?

Perhaps he had a divine vision that France was to rule England again one day and Joan of Arc was to lead them. Was England already Protestant at that time? Perhaps his vision was 'sent by God' to save the 'heretics' and bring them back into the Catholic church by saving Saint Joan

Bumping back up

Bumping to get about the filth

*above

Have we made a "cliff notes" for the story? Are we going to do that after all the character profiles?

I feel we could end up with a really bad story if we don't have any guide to adhere to.

Yes, that's the idea.

I've had very little opportunity to read much of this thread, but I'm going to set up the google doc today for the charcter profiles.

Awesome... Just don't put up the Roman profile yet, it's going to be changing on Monday evening.

awww damn i was really into the idea that we wouldnt know the ending until one of us wrote it.

i mean, i was under the impression also that when you submit one its under review and can be rejected if it fucks up the story too much too though

Well yes, Thucy, you are right. We're not going to know the ending completely... what I understand Abge to be referring to is a general outline.

Let me rephrase that... a general timeline of major events that should occur so as to keep everyone on the same idea. The story itself should unfold as we write it or else there is no purpose in doing it as a collaboration.

Here's the link to the google doc as it stands right now, anyone can veiw and add comments, but no one but me can edit until I specifically add them.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTktpiFvtWPjNiiJhOmPmNGxZooUWD_jzoxC0p13Swc/edit?hl=en_US

The name Canden Burquet was changed to Julius Schwartz... that's why it seems to be missing one I believe. Other than that, looks good so far.

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but, i mean, if you know the outline you kind of already know the plot points. i was thinking maybe we would just set up their problem and everything and then say "go"

I'd like to think of it as a road map that we're going to make. We're not necessarily going to say which highways to use, just that in our trip from Los Angeles to New York, we definitely want to make a stop in Denver, Houston and Chicago. However we get to each place will be played out by each writer in his portion.

That's a really boring second half of your roadtrip.

Houston to Chicago? Chicago to New York?

Just shoot me.

Hahahaha, you KNOW what I meant!

I never said you HAD to go straight to New York from Chicago... if you decided to fly to Paris and then take a cruise through the Artic Ocean and then down to New York... that's your perogative as a writer. Just that EVENTUALLY we need to arrive in New York. Do you see where I'm going with this or have I convoluted the idea too much?

Don't mind Thucy, he seems to be slowly going insane.

no i see what you mean i just dont like the idea of knowing the story ends in new york.. if you follow me.

for instance i dont want to decide in advance who dies... or whether the goal is achieved, or whatever

@Thucy

If we want to do this with no guide, I think we all need to be wiling to carefully think about what we write and carefully read what other's have done.

@Abge

That IS a requirement for sure... you have to read what has been done and stay the course logically OR build in good reasons why things change the way they do. I don't mind if we do it without a guide that demonstrates the entire trip... As long as we all know where the next major stop is along the way. The stop after that can be decided once we get there.

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