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Currently Active Untethered Tales
Note: Nancy hasn't sent an addition to either of these Tales for a long time. I think that maybe she lost interest in the project. I might be willing to consider additions by someone else.
| Cocktail Weenies |
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by Nancy and Sam
Most recent addition, Saturday, September 25, 2004
| Ham Hocks and Turnip Greens |
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by Sam and Nancy
Most recent addition, Friday, September 10, 2004
Concluded Untethered Tales
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| Star Trek N |
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by James and Sam
Friday, September 10, 2004
Some Guidelines for Writing Untethered Tales
An untethered tale is written by at least two authors, taking turns, and with a minimum of consultation between them. There shouldn't be any consultation at all concerning the intended direction of the plot. Indeed, that can be somewhat of a contest between the authors as each author tries to steer the action in a particular direction. Such consultation as happens should be limited to resolving actual inconsistencies and conflicts that can easily creep into the story as the authors vie for control of the action.
An author can go back and rewrite one of his previous portions of the story, so long as such changes don't invalidate any subsequent part of the story already added by another author.
If an author writes a portion of the story that is invalid by reason of an actual conflict with a previous portion of the story, then generally the burden should be on the latter author to make the necessary changes to bring his subsequent part of the story into logical consistency with the previous part of the story. However, if the previous part of the story was ambiguous or difficult to understand, then there might be a burden upon the author of that previous part of the story to clarify it.
It's customary that the names of the authors appear in the byline in the same order as their first portions appear in the story. It's also customary for each author to have a specific text color. Each author's name in the byline and text in the story appear in that author's text color.
I'll be adding to these guidelines from time to time, as I think of new things that make the untethered tales work better.