Proposed New Community
Sep. 17th, 2004 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentI mentioned this the other day, and I think I'm going to go ahead with it. I know Geneva's interested, but I thought I'd just outline my plan in case anyone else was ...
Working name:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
short_story_log (better suggestions gratefully accepted)
Purpose: a home for thoughts and notes on short stories.
Scope: any author, any genre; stories from yesterday or ten years ago.
Rationale: I want to (a) write at least briefly about most of the short stories that I read and (b) put those writings somewhere other than here. I want to write about the stories as I read them, one at a time, so somewhere like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
instant_fanzine also seems inappropriate.
Why a community rather than a normal journal: Other people may wish to do the same, unlikely as that seems. I have this vague notion of getting half-a-dozen people posting regularly, and managing to cover a good chunk of the new short fiction as it is published. I suspect, however, that this is fantasy.
How it would work: I'd make one post per story (be it a 5,000 word essay or a 5-line summary), then possibly a summary/overview post every time I finish a book/magazine. This is pretty much what I'm currently doing for Trujillo, although I suspect most of the posts I make will be much less detailed--As much as anything, this will be somewhere for me to put rough notes on stories. I see reviews of complete collections/anthologies going elsewhere, I think, although I'm willing to be convinced they should go here as well.
Unless anyone knows of and can suggest a better home for this sort of writing, I'll probably create the community in a couple of days.
Working name:
short_story_log (better suggestions gratefully accepted)Purpose: a home for thoughts and notes on short stories.
Scope: any author, any genre; stories from yesterday or ten years ago.
Rationale: I want to (a) write at least briefly about most of the short stories that I read and (b) put those writings somewhere other than here. I want to write about the stories as I read them, one at a time, so somewhere like
instant_fanzine also seems inappropriate.Why a community rather than a normal journal: Other people may wish to do the same, unlikely as that seems. I have this vague notion of getting half-a-dozen people posting regularly, and managing to cover a good chunk of the new short fiction as it is published. I suspect, however, that this is fantasy.
How it would work: I'd make one post per story (be it a 5,000 word essay or a 5-line summary), then possibly a summary/overview post every time I finish a book/magazine. This is pretty much what I'm currently doing for Trujillo, although I suspect most of the posts I make will be much less detailed--As much as anything, this will be somewhere for me to put rough notes on stories. I see reviews of complete collections/anthologies going elsewhere, I think, although I'm willing to be convinced they should go here as well.
Unless anyone knows of and can suggest a better home for this sort of writing, I'll probably create the community in a couple of days.
