I agree with Elenion, as of today there are 16 potential storylines or concepts, I suggest we set a cut off date to get any final ideas in. Vote and then present those ideas to the writing team. Decide on a head writer and get the first draft underway. You should check out submission #15 by Martin Lancaster. As far as I know Martin is the only professional writer who has offered to help us out and is a strong candidate for the lead writer role. I'm not saying his idea is the best but it gives you an idea of genres that he likes writing in.

@Vitaly I dont think any of the stories presented so far are going to be expanded any further until the authors know what "THE GROUP" thinks of them. Most authors have had plenty of time to expand on their stories if they had further ideas.

I think everyone who has submitted something so far deserves to hear what the group thinks of their ideas. Forget the cash contest idea, I could only see that as slowing things down, lets just move forward as efficiently as possible.

Maybe once the concepts have been thinned out to the top 5 or something, everyone can be free to add ideas for those, but its kind of pointless to add new ideas to concepts that no one wants to pursue.

@Imaginate, @B3Guy: I think there could be a crop of the story concepts now (to about 5 left) and then it's up to the writers to use the favoured main concepts as they see fit whilst developing their story.

@RRRR I agree, we have 16 concepts, create a poll with the number and title. Members should read the [storylines] page once more before they vote as some people have updated there stories.

Any volunteers to create the poll?

I can create the poll again, but perhaps we should allow at least a couple of days in case there is still anyone wanting to work over theirs a bit more. I know I would like to rework mine a bit this weekend. How about a day next week sometime for the editing to close and the poll to open?

Also, we need some way of choosing a writer after that.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev - do you think it would be possible to have a sticky thread for announcements? Like deadlines and such.. (without discussion) "Personal-View community announcements" or something like that..

Like, that there could be a thread for announcements as one of the "important" threads at the top of the topics list.. It could be for other issues aswell, not only this. Easy to find memos for different things..

@Vitaliy these are stickies - never mind just read previous post

Anything that makes things simpler and easier to understand is a good thing. The last three people that I have invited to the project have all commented on how confusing it is to navigate, and come back saying " I still dont understand what the project is about "

An overall project description might be good to feature on 00_main_page and a sticky at the beginning of this thread. Some people dont want to read through the whole thread to figure our major points of what we are trying to do.

Right. Friday it is, then. That will give anyone who might be wanting a chance a bit of time to make changes on their ideas.

@Imaginate

I don't understand that you mean. This is just forum software external to wiki.

My thoughts are negative. As even in this topic activity is minimal.

Are you sure that this topics will be actively used?