Fantasy in miniature.

[alexandraerin]

More Tribe coming up tonight, but I wanted to take a moment to share my plans for it, longer term.

I just registered the domain name "fantasyinminiature.com"... Tribe's subtitle, which I've been in love with since I came up with, and which I think has much broader and deeper potential than just Tribe. I subtitled Tribe that because it was a poetic summation for the microchapter approach. But in some respects, stapling Tribe--one great idea--to the "fantasy in miniature" concept--another great idea--ended up wasting the potential of both.

I'm not going to break up the coupling, but I think it's time they opened up to seeing other partners.

To cut through the metaphor, fantasyinminiature.com is going to be a flash fiction site, which will include dribbles and drabbles of short-short fiction from me. I frequently have ideas for little bits of fantasy or horror but I don't always write them, usually because I'm not sure what to do with them. I know a few sites that are happy to take them, but... well, I'm much more comfortable working by myself. The need to actually send it off somewhere is one thing that makes me drop the habit of writing flash fiction almost as quickly as I acquire it. I might try something with licensing terms, whereby the stand alone stories on the site can be reprinted with attribution (and a link/URL) freely, but I don't want to expend precious spoons pursuing venues for 300-600 word stories.

Yeah, it may be time to give Creative Commons a try.

I might experiment with podcasts, too. Stories that short seem like a good place to start.

Tribe? It will be hosted on this domain, as a separate and distinct feed, but with all updates listed on the front page. 3 Seas may end up there, too. That honestly just occurred to me, but it's always had a bite sized page size. The old domains will redirect to the new URLs for convenience.

Hmmm. I started this post to explain my plans and I find them evolving as I go. I should think out loud on my Livejournal more often.

Comments

[ephant.livejournal.com]

You've probably already thought of this, but I think it would be nifty if the advertising had a different layout than on the MU site. I know that Tribe is one of my favourites and one of the reasons I advertise on your site - but just due to the placement of the smaller ads there's pretty much no chance of someone seeing it from a tribe update. Perfect for MU when the text is going to go down that far (and further).

I don't mind for me. I think people clicking on my ads is hilarious, but I am guessing some other people advertise to actually... advertise. Rather than because they think it's funny.

So yeah, something to think about on the new site, if you haven't already, and if you are going to use a different layout/scheme thing for that site.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Tribe always sounded to me like a name for all a multiple personality person's personalities.

But, Yay! It's back(ish)

[moofable.livejournal.com]

Podcasts will go well with your voice.