Okay so there has been a lot of conversation regarding threads...what type are allowed outside of the main thread, how many....that sort of thing. I know that everyone has a way that they like to do things. I've done the large group GM thing on another site for years and over the years I learned a few things. Problem being...not much of that is worth anything here because group games seem to be done a completely different way here. I will apologize in advance if it seemed like I was waffling between different methods. It was more that I wanted everyone to be comfortable and was trying to figure out how to accomplish that.<br/><br/>It seems I won't be able to do that.<br/><br/>So we are moving to 'Plan B'. This is a group story. This is a collaboration of writers coming up with a story together. Because of that, letting too many other threads exist takes away from the main part of the story. I don't mind the odd conversation between characters here or there...but I do think we need to concentrate on the main thread for now.<br/><br/>There has been the suggestion that the story will 'bog down' too much. I don't think that's the case. I think the people that want to post will post. I think the people that lose interest or don't like how things are working out won't. But as long as the GM is advancing the story every week, I'm not sure the story can 'bog down'.<br/><br/>Does this mean everyone had to be in the same place at the same time ALL the time? Ummm...no. As I've said before, as long as I know where you are, I can manipulate events just fine to get you included.<br/><br/>To forward the story more, I am going to start collaborating with each active writer via pm to pass on my immediate ideas for events surrounding their character to make sure they mesh with what the writer would like to see. Things will start going a bit crazy in Storybrooke now that Emma has arrived.<br/><br/>If any of you find what I've written here is too restrictive for you or just not what you wanted for this group story, I understand completely and will have no hard feelings about you withdrawing from the story. I don't want anyone to stay here that really doesn't want to be here..or feel they have to stay because it might mess things up. I can rework things if I need to.<br/><br/>.....and Ember decided to post a new idea right before I posted this...lol.<br/><br/>I like the idea of chapter threads...but I'd like to wait awhile on that and get more then 'day one AE' before we start that.<br/><br/>