{"id":80,"date":"2010-04-08T07:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-07-02T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T13:37:42","slug":"an-anthology-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"An Anthology Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update #2 (July 1st 2011): This proposal is alive and well as SplinteredLands.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Edit: There has been a lot of discussion of this idea in the comments, so please read them as well as the main post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I’ve been mulling the idea of doing a ‘shared world’ anthology of short fiction, of fantasy or science fiction. This is an idea that has been used before, most notably by Robert Lynn Asprin for Thieves’ World, and I’m wondering how many people out there would be interested in something of this sort. It’s an idea that has caught my attention recently, and I’m throwing it out there to see if it catches anyone else’s.<\/p>\n

The first step, if there are enough interested authors, is pick the story type, setting and the language style (Gaelic-style names would be an example), and spend some time world building, creating an encyclopedia that can be handed around to the interested parties. I’m leaving this deliberately open-ended because I want to see what comes back in the way of ideas, and I don’t want to restrict them.<\/p>\n

On the idea of the first short stories, I would recommend nothing more than 5-10,000 words, as a rough test of the system, and not too stressful to write either. Of course, there’s some work to do before writing the stories happen.<\/p>\n

Thoughts on the proposal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update #2 (July 1st 2011): This proposal is alive and well as SplinteredLands.com Edit: There has been a lot of discussion of this idea in the comments, so please read them as well as the main post. 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