Thread: Chapter Writing Department

This forum is for the writers to talk amongst themselves in addition to posting their written progress thus far. Here, you all may collectively discuss what chapters you all would like to take on and write up. The basics are critical, but so is originality...keep that in mind.

Editing/Revisions Department: Writers, you are the center point of this project. Everything rises and falls on you. Consult the editing/revisions department and post things that need to be edited or revised. Be it sentences, paragraphs, or an entire chapter. Consult them and use their department for your benefit.

Research Department: Writers, use the research department for your benefit, should you want to research something or want something researched...be it stats, graphs, published experiments and everything in between...this is the proper department to consult for your writing.

Graphic Designs Department: Writers, if you'd like a certain image to coincide with your pages or chapter, feel free to consult the graphic designs department and they will assist you to the best of their abilities. Be very specific with what it is you are wanting.

Organizing Department: The organizing department more-so oversees the progress and organizes finished paragraphs/chapters so that things remain intact and befitting. Writers, should you have any questions on the proper placement of your paragraphs, chapters...consult the organizing department.

Research Department's Directory of Information: This thread directs our Writing Department to highlighted and suggested information that is extracted by our Research Department from sources collected in Kromoh's thread and in The Research Department's own thread. Our writers can use this thread to easily access the information they need for their assignments. DO NOT post general sources here; limit posts to either quoted or selected material from these sources, links to posts with the information, source descriptions, and discussions concerning the placement of material.

Department Leader: Department leader's are supervisors of a certain department. They make sure work is being done and has the authority to tweak, organize, call meetings etc. Staff may consult their department leader and department leader's may consult the Project Leader. Department leader's can hire additional staff members for their department at their discretion. Department leader's, if a staff member is not staying on task or doing what you are asking him/her for the benefit of the department (and ultimately the project) you can recommend them for termination to the Project Leader. Once again, I encourage Department leader's to hire more staff for their departments. To personally hire a new staff member, have them fill out an application and within that application in the additional comments section, have they say that you personally hired them.


The author of this post wrote this cognizant of the fact that staff members work in more than one department.

[Research Department's Directory of Information]

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Chapter Writing Department Staff

Department Leader: Naiya

Naiya (Completed Chapter III), Jeff, adrift, Beeyahoi (Writing Chapter II), Lunantidius (Completed Chapter IV), Walms, spockman, CoLd BlooDed, Banana, doktorj, Andywarski


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Edited by Naiya:

I wanted to put this in the first post where everyone could see it.

Okay, so as far as the writing goes, we'll be starting with the first three chapters. The Introduction will be more collaborative, and I'll make a thread for that in a minute here, so we can put that together. Chapters 2 and 3 have been assigned as follows:

Chapter 2 -- Beeyahoi

Chapter 3 -- Naiya

Thank you guys for being the first, and please get to work ASAP. Post your drafts in the forum here for revision and editing. Thank you.



There are some important things all writers need to know:


WRITERS, PLEASE CHECK IN AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK OR YOU WILL BE IN DANGER OF BEING DROPPED FROM THE PROJECT. All it takes is one post a week saying "hey I'm really busy right now" or whatever if things come up i your life. Or a post of "I'm still working on ____." It goes without saying that the people who post more and are most consistent with writing will have more opportunities to take bigger parts.

1. You will be edited. First will come small fixes in spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. Second will be organization. Third will be major content additions and/or edits (AKA butchering your babies). The better you edit your own work for these things, the less chance they have of major revisions. Please check your work before posting or submitting; it reflects poorly on you if you assume that editors will fix everything and submit something incomprehensible.

2. Even if you are assigned a chapter or a piece, be aware that other people's contributions will be added. I will try to do this in a way that gives separation to each person's writing. One way to do this would be with a collection of short essays for some chapters. In the end, everyone will have their credit, but if you want your name on specific parts of the writing, speak now so I can try to make that happen. If you are fine just having your name on the finished product, that makes it easier. Let me know now.

3. Chapters and pieces will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis until I have a good idea of who comes up with the most writing and good quality work. If you are interested or knowledgeable in certain subjects in dreaming, let me know so I can assign to you things you'll be able to write about. Again, even if you aren't given a chapter you want to do, you can still contribute to it. But also be aware that there will be dry parts and someone needs to write them.

4. If you disappear after having been given something to write, even if you have already written some content, your work will be assigned to someone else. We may or may not use your material--if you drop out of the project and say so, we can keep what you did, but if you never come back, we will probably scrap your work.

5. Please collaborate with the guys i the research team on your given work. When asking them for help, be as specific as possible. Give them the basic rundown of what you want to say in points. Give whatever sources you already want to use. After you finish a draft, I will ask the Research Dept. to go over it to make sure that it is all factual.


If there are certain things you WANT to write about, post it here, the sooner the better. Or PM me. Whoever posts first will get first dibs until I get to know you as writers, and after that work will be assigned based on what you've done previously.