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- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Kristin Darken
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So, there's a lot of reading to be done... you might need that beer.
Either way... welcome!
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Arcanist Lupus
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Or a little over twice the Wheel of Time series.Kristin Darken wrote: And when we talk about 'hefty', we're talking over 9 million words in 'just' the canon content (between 90-100 novels worth).
I don't know why I find this statistic so funny, but I do.
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy." - Spider Robinson
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Kristin Darken wrote: You might want to reclaim your beer and settle in a bit more comfortably before you dive in too far. The WU has been in motion since 2004 and we've accumulated a bit of material in the interim. In addition to the two Generations of canon stories, there is also a pretty hefty library of 'other' stuff by our authors, and then there is the all the non-canon stuff - ranging from fan fic microscenes to fully realized stories in what we're now calling our WhatIF collection (Whateley Independent Fiction). And when we talk about 'hefty', we're talking over 9 million words in 'just' the canon content (between 90-100 novels worth).
So, there's a lot of reading to be done... you might need that beer.
Either way... welcome!
Yiks I knew gen1 was pretty deep, but wowza! And if i wanted to write a fan-fiction would it be better to post bits of it in the fabrication lab or just publish it under WhatIf?
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Which makes the explosion of stories being written to the Fabrication Lab since we opened up WhatIF rather ironic
- E M Pisek
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Ebola wrote: Hello my name is Ebola I found this site after reading some of the Whateley Fan-Fiction over on Fictionmania, and I thought I would register here and start reading the other stories around that I may have missed. I enjoy the idea of the shared universe, but I really have no idea on where to begin on Gen1, the only things that I really have been following have been Gen2 stories.
Well enjoy the site as was said, catch up with the stories. Figure out the clues and win a prize when the duck drops down. Oh and don't get sick on us. We have a few that can catch a cold just by spelling it....
What is - was. What was - is.
- Kristin Darken
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- elrodw
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Kristin Darken wrote:
Ebola wrote: Yiks I knew gen1 was pretty deep, but wowza! And if i wanted to write a fan-fiction would it be better to post bits of it in the fabrication lab or just publish it under WhatIf?
Yep, as Neo and Phoenix said; that's entirely up to you. The main difference right now is who your target audience is. If you are feeling more like workshopping and practicing your writing using a Whateley subject, you might want to stick to the Fab Lab. But if you want readers? Give the WhatIF process a shot.
Having been through it myself, I would very strongly suggest that you read a couple of dozen stories - and I'm not talking about all from one author. A bit of Fey, a bit of Toni, a bit of Ayla, a bit of Loophole, and so on. Vary which authors you read, as well. You'll get a much better feel for the quirks of the universe that way as opposed to reading one or two and then starting to write. It's a very pleasant way of doing research in the subject
Never give up, Never surrender! Captain Peter Quincy Taggert
- Kristin Darken
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