THE B3TAN WRITTEN GRAPHIC NOVEL IDEA

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THE B3TA Graphic/Written Novel IDEA

first off there are no set rules for any of the following, if anyone has a better way of doing this by all means suggest it - and let me be clear this is not my project, it is overseen and managed by everyone who contributes - (but we might need a quality control panel?)

I'm getting loads of feedback and good ideas on this - at the moment it's all in my inbox - so I thought the next step was to set up this place, as a way of letting everyone gather in a forum to discuss ideas:

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THE WHAT:
This is for a B3ta Graphic/written novel where each of us submits 1 page each - even those B3tans who can't illustrate can just submit a page of text or dialogue - the only criteria is that each page creates a narrative flow from the one previous - 1 page could even consist of just 1 panel - much like in the spirit of the joke book.

The end result is a graphic/written book with completely unpredictable storyline illustrated and written by a wonderfully diverse group of creative individuals

THE HOW:

I messaged Rob about this idea, to give him the rights over this project, which is only fair, but he said he had no problem, for anyone who's interested in doing this, to do it on our own even though we're using his site

the tricky part - I suggest we employ a queueing system - have a site/storage area where the pages are submitted. Here the last page submitted is picked up and a lock put on the pickup area until that person submits their continuation page and so on...

THE WHAT THEN:
when the story reaches a certain number of pages (96?) we publish (lots of ways we can do this and i'm open to ideas and feedback). If we keep submitting pages we just simply run on into other volumes - maybe 4 per year?

I'm guessing from the responses I've had so far we will never be short of enthusiasm, talent or contributions.

Even if only B3tans and their friends/family/gimps buy the book it will still shift a fair amount of copies

even if we don't publish we could have a downloadable PDF version of each book volume, at the very least - guaranteed


If anyone has ideas on this or a better way of doing any of the above by all means let us know

THE WHY:
Just for the fun of it

I doubt this will make any of us any money but as most of us are doing creative stuff on B3ta for free anyway, I doubt this will stop any of us from chipping in on the project .

The NOW WHAT:

STEP 1

first step is getting a storage site set up and the locking system in place
(The Goat www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com, Thu 8 Feb 2007, 12:00, Reply)