Is anything in this thread salvageable?These stories become illogical by page two. Or one.
Personally, I've found very few of the "sentences" in this story to be salvageable. As an English major, it's been especially horrific.
I don't mean to insult anyone here, of course... I think people did the best they could, but I believe the inevitable slide into incomprehensibility is a flaw inherent to the "one word story" format. Myself, I think it would be best to stick with a "five words at a time story" in the future. Maybe ten words... something along those lines. As long as it's more than one or two.
Personally, I've found very few of the "sentences" in this story to be salvageable. As an English major, it's been especially horrific.
I don't mean to insult anyone here, of course... I think people did the best they could, but I believe the inevitable slide into incomprehensibility is a flaw inherent to the "one word story" format. Myself, I think it would be best to stick with a "five words at a time story" in the future. Maybe ten words... something along those lines. As long as it's more than one or two.
Actually..when read..the story comes off like a crazy dream that makes no since..THATS what was so fun about it. Once you start allowing more words, the story becomes tangible..and suffers for it..IMO..
Rob
Personally, I've found very few of the "sentences" in this story to be salvageable. As an English major, it's been especially horrific.
I don't mean to insult anyone here, of course... I think people did the best they could, but I believe the inevitable slide into incomprehensibility is a flaw inherent to the "one word story" format. Myself, I think it would be best to stick with a "five words at a time story" in the future. Maybe ten words... something along those lines. As long as it's more than one or two.
Actually..when read..the story comes off like a crazy dream that makes no since..THATS what was so fun about it. Once you start allowing more words, the story becomes tangible..and suffers for it..IMO..
Rob
Fair enough... I can certainly see how it would appeal to someone in a zany way like that. I personally think too much nonsense gets tiresome pretty quickly, but to each his own.
Believe me, I can appreciate the one-word story thing (to a point), and I can definitely appreciate the fact that others love it for precisely the same reasons that I think it gets old quickly (i.e. the story turning into madcap nonsense). I think there are always plenty of opportunities to be creative, in any format. I just personally prefer other kinds of this online storytelling-in-the-round... where there's more consistency and the humour makes more sense.
Back to the story, dammit!
Entire timelines and fleets of ships depend on what we write NEXT!
