Attention! By reading this post you MAY be starting an adventure you've never seen before of HTTYD FanFiction! You have been warned...
Dawnbreaker fic, community style!
By reading this far you've proved to be worthy to hear about my plan. Shall I continue?
Anyway, this idea for a story hit me a few weeks ago and ever since I've been planning it and how to execute it. This will be extremely hard to do as it has never, EVER been done before of Fanfiction, at least in HTTYD section that is. Anyways, this is the idea:
This story will contain multiple 500-2000 word chapters by VARIOUS authors all around the HTTYD community. Have the authors been decided yet? no, no they haven't. That's why I'm posting this chapter!
The basic idea for this story is that I Personally will write a short prologue for a story and no matter what kind of prologue that is, ALL of the next chapters will be written by DIFFERENT authors.
1) How is it going to work?
2) Will the story be just ridiculously random?
Answers: 1) Easy 2) Most likely
1) For every chapter, the author that will write it, will first read the previous chapters very carefully and consider in which direction he want to take the story. He/she can make the next chapter have drama, romance, deaths, happiness, comfort,( new characters),* anything! As long as it fits in with the chapters that were previously written. Of course I will check each chapter before it is published and added to this Community fic.
* Yes, you can Add OC's in this story BUT you must remember they can really only be used in your own chapter because anyone else of the writers may not want or even know how to write about your OC's
The sending of chapters will be done by DocX OR in some cases, even via a copy-paste from PM's that were sent to me.
Get it already?
2) RAndoMneSs? Yes, it is very likely that some parts of the story will be extremely random and not related by any way BUT as we're all authors on FF, I hope that everyone will do their best in making this a glorious story!
Practical stuff:
So basically if you want to participate in the making of this story and are willing to give it your shot, just send this post a review where you tell that you're eager to do it or just PM me. Once I've got the volunteers, I will randomly give them numbers on which chapter they will be making OR if someone has an idea PRECISELY for the next chapter, I will probably let them to do it.
Chapter length in approximately 500-2000 words BECAUSE this is a community fic and if the chapters would be longer, so would that author's influence on this story and they would get to take this story in their own direction too much. I want to avoid that. I don't want a single author come here and take this too much in a way they'd prefer. This way everyone will have the same amount of influence.
Other thing is that When I PM people to start writing the next chapter (which is when the last one has been published) The author should first ofc read the previous chapter and then start writing it BUT it has to be done withing 3-4 days as it is a community fic and the community must get to enjoy it.
Oh, and also one thing: When you're writing the chapter, you can ALWAYS ask me for help during the writing BUT I also recommend to stay in contact with the person that wrote the last chapter and ask them what that scene really meant of how it went etc.
Now you're probably wondering just WHY should you use your precious time to do such a small 500-2000 word chapters and participate? Well, I'm going to tell you.
First of all, everyone who participates will get a special shoutout by me and also I will Follow and favorite each and everyone that helps me with this. I will also probably try to read and review at least one of their stories.
Not only that but you also get free advertising for your OWN stories! (yes, you're free to make your own author's notes in the chapter you write)
Also, you'll be helping to make the HTTYD community the best and closest community on FF
So why not help? Short chapters, a lot of fun!
In the best case scenario we (yes, we, not just me) will get over 100 chapters with different authors and one EPIC story.
So please tell your friends about this and come give us a hand!
It doesn't matter whether you're new to the site or a highly-skilled and experienced author, just come have fun writing this!
Also, if this story gets some popularity, it would be SO awesome if someone put up a forum for it's writers here on FF
I've already got a few people agree to my idea, you can be the next!
Sincerely:
-Dawnbreaker
P.S. Almost forgot to mention. Because I have to write the prologue, could you all please suggest GENRES for this story and also the MAIN CHARACTERS. Just put them in the review/PM. Something you'd like this story to be (genre-wise as otherwise no-one knows what this will become)
=D
