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The Rules to Line Story (these are subject to change)

1) One line per writer. Use your words wisely. However, if you feel that one line can’t convey what you need to say, then try and narrow it down to no more than two.

2) Read. Do not add a line in the story if you haven’t read the previous lines. ( Continuity and consistency)

3) Wait. If you add a line, then wait for someone else to add a line before you add another. If you add one line and then immediately add another you are guiding the story.

4) If you feel the story needs some guiding from the direction it’s going. Fight the feeling. That doesn’t mean that by adding a character, scene, or dialogue you are in violation of this rule.

5) There will be times when the story stalls. When that happens, which we hope isn’t often; one of the administrators will get it started back on track, not a writer. ( If an administrator is not around then PM them)

6) If a writer adds more than one line, (see 1st rule) that’s an infraction and we will delete the line. Period.

7) If we find that someone is continuing to ignore the rules, they will be asked politely, not to participate.

Our plan for Line Story has always been for the group to originate a story and it will remain that way with the help of all our wonderful writers.

Thank you.

For those wondering what this is, we over at Speculative Fiction Authors group started a game of sorts where we try to develop a story line by line.

It works like this, one person writes a line of a story in a thread and the next person writes the next line of the story. You can write however you think the next line might go. We continued adding lines until we had a story, or until the weekend is over, whichever comes first.

These are the stories we develop over the course of a weekend.