Organizing the EVE fiction blog community (again)

I’ve always preferred a free media option similar to my own http://eveinline.blogspot.com/

You open up a blogger account to any would be authors and let them publish on it freely. You could take it one step further and and section it, all pretty easy to do.

I intended once to do this with EvE Inline but as is the way with me I ran out of time and promptly forgot Still, the site is there and the mechanics are easy to implement.

I must admit a blog pack never really interests me as I always feel its a chore to be fair and read everything.

I’ve always preferred a free media option similar to my own http://eveinline.blogspot.com/

You open up a blogger account to any would be authors and let them publish on it freely. You could take it one step further and and section it, all pretty easy to do.

I intended once to do this with EvE Inline but as is the way with me I ran out of time and promptly forgot Still, the site is there and the mechanics are easy to implement.

I must admit a blog pack never really interests me as I always feel its a chore to be fair and read everything.

I wouldn’t want to publish my fiction on someone else’s site, and I think a lot of other authors wouldn’t either (absent some other compensatory arrangement).

I’d like to see us find a way to help our readers find other fiction posts, and for us authors to exchange information and tips. Are there other goals we should pursue?

I wouldn’t want to publish my fiction on someone else’s site, and I think a lot of other authors wouldn’t either (absent some other compensatory arrangement).

I’d like to see us find a way to help our readers find other fiction posts, and for us authors to exchange information and tips. Are there other goals we should pursue?

Erh. Damnit, you’re making me think.

I already do a fair bit of in-game collaboration. Prior to Musings, my EVE fiction was almost one hundred percent ‘fictionalized’ game logs, spliced together with transitional bits. (If you’d like to see an example of such, look at Sabi’s blog: The Wages of Death).

Not only do I do collaboration, I really enjoy collaboration. I don’t like my brain at times: when it works in the absence of external voices, things inside it can get pretty damn weird.

So why don’t I collaborate with other EVE fiction bloggers? Simple reason, really — we aren’t often anywhere near each other’s in-game sandboxes. I’m pretty sure if we played together in-game, I’d be collaborating with them, assuming they weren’t able to wriggle free and run off screaming into the night.

And at this point in writing this, I completely blanked on useful suggestions and wandered off to read blogs. Then boom, an idea hit me when I was reading Mynxee’s last Life in Low Sec post about her and Sapphire Mote’s stroll through a Fed Navy station in Vitrauze.

When I was a kid, I enjoyed the hell out of the original Thieves’ World series. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the short version: there was a city called Sanctuary, and a number of fantasy authors wrote short stories and novellas based there. They used each other’s mythos, settings, and occasionally characters.

One of the appealing things about in-game places like the Last Gate, the Skyhook, La Maison, et cetera, et cetera, is that it enables characters from all sorts of backgrounds to interact with one another within a relatively fixed environment. Not that I’d want to reproduce one of those places in blog form (though doing that for The Skyhook would make it damn easy for the Ghost Festival crew to hook stories to the setting), but it might not be a terrible idea to implement a Blog Carnival-like thing with a common setting, oh, for example, Jita IV-IV?

The frame post for the Blog Carnival could almost write itself: “This week in Jita IV-IV…”

Erh. Damnit, you’re making me think.

I already do a fair bit of in-game collaboration. Prior to Musings, my EVE fiction was almost one hundred percent ‘fictionalized’ game logs, spliced together with transitional bits. (If you’d like to see an example of such, look at Sabi’s blog: The Wages of Death).

Not only do I do collaboration, I really enjoy collaboration. I don’t like my brain at times: when it works in the absence of external voices, things inside it can get pretty damn weird.

So why don’t I collaborate with other EVE fiction bloggers? Simple reason, really — we aren’t often anywhere near each other’s in-game sandboxes. I’m pretty sure if we played together in-game, I’d be collaborating with them, assuming they weren’t able to wriggle free and run off screaming into the night.

And at this point in writing this, I completely blanked on useful suggestions and wandered off to read blogs. Then boom, an idea hit me when I was reading Mynxee’s last Life in Low Sec post about her and Sapphire Mote’s stroll through a Fed Navy station in Vitrauze.

When I was a kid, I enjoyed the hell out of the original Thieves’ World series. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the short version: there was a city called Sanctuary, and a number of fantasy authors wrote short stories and novellas based there. They used each other’s mythos, settings, and occasionally characters.

One of the appealing things about in-game places like the Last Gate, the Skyhook, La Maison, et cetera, et cetera, is that it enables characters from all sorts of backgrounds to interact with one another within a relatively fixed environment. Not that I’d want to reproduce one of those places in blog form (though doing that for The Skyhook would make it damn easy for the Ghost Festival crew to hook stories to the setting), but it might not be a terrible idea to implement a Blog Carnival-like thing with a common setting, oh, for example, Jita IV-IV?

The frame post for the Blog Carnival could almost write itself: “This week in Jita IV-IV…”

Yeah, I didn’t think we should organize large-scale collaborations on specific pieces (though that would be a cool project) so much as finding ways to point people to other, similar authors and of course participating together in “blog events,” so to speak.

Yeah, I didn’t think we should organize large-scale collaborations on specific pieces (though that would be a cool project) so much as finding ways to point people to other, similar authors and of course participating together in “blog events,” so to speak.

I personally can’t sacrifice the time to follow the blogs that are narrative. If you made a fiction-centric blog pack, would it upset anyone if we pulled the fiction blogs out of Kinux’s blog pack?

And in that vein, why not talk to the Capsuleer crew, and get them to set up a button dedicated to the Chronicles and the fiction blog pack?

I personally can’t sacrifice the time to follow the blogs that are narrative. If you made a fiction-centric blog pack, would it upset anyone if we pulled the fiction blogs out of Kinux’s blog pack?

And in that vein, why not talk to the Capsuleer crew, and get them to set up a button dedicated to the Chronicles and the fiction blog pack?

I don’t think we have very many blogs in CK’s pack that focus exclusively on narrative. Some are like mine: fiction interspersed with “normal” posts.

I don’t think we have very many blogs in CK’s pack that focus exclusively on narrative. Some are like mine: fiction interspersed with “normal” posts.

I’m definitely all for this. I had a similar sort of idea a short while ago. I had thought that every month or every two months we could have a series of fiction short stories around a particular topic or moment in eve. see my post here: http://evemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-fan-fiction-short-story-writing-blogfest/ (which I think sparked chainer’s twitter (http://datacore.discoveringeve.net/?p=325) sort of like CK’s blog banter except for fiction writers.

there are a few people interested so far and I’m hoping that we’ll have our first set out at the end of the month.

I don’t mind who does it but I think it should be done definately. perhaps there could be a different host each month?

I’m definitely all for this. I had a similar sort of idea a short while ago. I had thought that every month or every two months we could have a series of fiction short stories around a particular topic or moment in eve. see my post here: http://evemonkey.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-fan-fiction-short-story-writing-blogfest/ (which I think sparked chainer’s twitter (http://datacore.discoveringeve.net/?p=325) sort of like CK’s blog banter except for fiction writers.

there are a few people interested so far and I’m hoping that we’ll have our first set out at the end of the month.

I don’t mind who does it but I think it should be done definately. perhaps there could be a different host each month?

I agree, Akura, it should move around. That’s why it’s a carnival, in fact, heh. See http://rift.chromebits.net/2009/10/09/request-for-eve-fiction-submissions/ for more…

I agree, Akura, it should move around. That’s why it’s a carnival, in fact, heh. See http://rift.chromebits.net/2009/10/09/request-for-eve-fiction-submissions/ for more…

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