Building Tales is moving. As of now, it will be incorporated into my main website, ZoeRobinson.com. The reason for this is simply that I can better control the way the stories are presented, keep them all sorted into serials and generally work with them more easily. The plan was always to have the stories linked into my site, it's just that it seems to have taken a while to get this far.
Thanks for your patience with the current storyline, too. I'll get back to working on it now.
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08 February 2010
03 August 2008
How this will work
Before the first part of the first story goes online I thought I'd take this opportunity to explain a little more about how these stories will work.
First of all, I don't intend to spent an awful lot of time editing before posting. I'll endeavour to spell and grammar check the stories but I won't be going over them time and time again to perfect every word, sentence and so forth. I'll try to make things read okay but the general idea is to get the stories down on screen as quickly as I can, so I can move on to the next part of the story. To this end, the majority of what you read will be a first draft. If I compile the stories into one long page once they're finished, I'll edit then and make everything work nicely; but for the original posts, things will be pretty much how they come out when I first write them.
Second of all, while the original premise was to tell a story in seven parts, this is clearly not going to work for all stories. In fact, it's likely to severely limit what kind of stories I can tell and it would run the risk of encouraging formulaic storytelling. I'm therefore dropping that premise right away. Stories will be told in as many parts as are needed to tell them.
Thirdly, don't count on posts at weekends. I'll endeavour to meet a Monday to Friday posting schedule, with the weekend left for me to try to get ahead of myself a little, and also to work on other projects. I'll aim for a posting time of Midnight (UK time), so each new post is ready for you to read in the morning, or evening if you're in the right time zone.
Comments are welcome, of course, and I will try to answer all questions put to me but I'm not going to tell you what happens next or reveal any plot points in answers. For those you'll just have to wait an see.
I hope you enjoy the stories.
First of all, I don't intend to spent an awful lot of time editing before posting. I'll endeavour to spell and grammar check the stories but I won't be going over them time and time again to perfect every word, sentence and so forth. I'll try to make things read okay but the general idea is to get the stories down on screen as quickly as I can, so I can move on to the next part of the story. To this end, the majority of what you read will be a first draft. If I compile the stories into one long page once they're finished, I'll edit then and make everything work nicely; but for the original posts, things will be pretty much how they come out when I first write them.
Second of all, while the original premise was to tell a story in seven parts, this is clearly not going to work for all stories. In fact, it's likely to severely limit what kind of stories I can tell and it would run the risk of encouraging formulaic storytelling. I'm therefore dropping that premise right away. Stories will be told in as many parts as are needed to tell them.
Thirdly, don't count on posts at weekends. I'll endeavour to meet a Monday to Friday posting schedule, with the weekend left for me to try to get ahead of myself a little, and also to work on other projects. I'll aim for a posting time of Midnight (UK time), so each new post is ready for you to read in the morning, or evening if you're in the right time zone.
Comments are welcome, of course, and I will try to answer all questions put to me but I'm not going to tell you what happens next or reveal any plot points in answers. For those you'll just have to wait an see.
I hope you enjoy the stories.
29 July 2008
What, when and why
This blog is intended as a showcase for serialised storytelling. The idea is that I will write and publish a portion of a story every day, building up a full story as I go along. It's a test of endurance and creativity as well as a source of entertainment.
I intend to write mainly in the science-fiction, fantasy, contemporary and horror genres; possibly including elements of each genre in each story or perhaps taking inspiration from some of these genres when creating new stories. I'm hoping that you'll find something in each story that you will enjoy.
I'm putting together the first story at the moment, with the intention of getting a few days ahead of myself before starting, so I have a little 'wiggle room' in case of personal and/or family problems causing me to be unable to post on a particular day.
The idea is to begin publishing the stories on Monday 04 August 2008. If this changes (it shouldn't) I'll let you know.
I intend to write mainly in the science-fiction, fantasy, contemporary and horror genres; possibly including elements of each genre in each story or perhaps taking inspiration from some of these genres when creating new stories. I'm hoping that you'll find something in each story that you will enjoy.
I'm putting together the first story at the moment, with the intention of getting a few days ahead of myself before starting, so I have a little 'wiggle room' in case of personal and/or family problems causing me to be unable to post on a particular day.
The idea is to begin publishing the stories on Monday 04 August 2008. If this changes (it shouldn't) I'll let you know.
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