Credo.
The idea here is to have a dumping ground for the snippets of writing that usually get left on the cutting room floor. Eventually (hopefully) there will be several regular posters, each of whom will contibute brief bits of his or her own writing.
But not pieces of larger stories or ongoing works, oh no. That's not what this is about. What you'll find here are all the things we wouldn't otherwise use. The things we usually think of once and then forget about or bury in a notebook or usb key. So don't expect any piece to be followed up or continued. No two posts will have anything to do with one another.
And sure, maybe posting here will bring the inspiration or encouragement to take a few beginnings and find them some endings, but if so those larger works will have to live on somewhere else. The Bored at Work Journal is all about the unfinished.
Guidelines for posting:
1. You do not talk about fight club. (sorry, had to get that joke out of the way)
1. Naturally, all posts should be the original work of the poster.
2. Posts should be short-ish in length, anywhere from just a few words to several paragraphs. A reader should be able to finish your post within a few minutes, and beyond that there's no specific length requirement.
3. No exerpts from larger works. The BaWJ is dedicated to unfinished pieces. If you want expand one of your posts into a larger work, you are free to, every post is considered copyrighted to it's author. If you do expand a post and host the larger work somewhere else, you may add a link to it on your original posting.
Note: This is not to say that your posts can't have "endings" of a sort. A very quick story with a conclusion is ok, since it's an "unexpanded" kind of "unfinished." The important part is that your posts, as they are, should not be complete enough to be published in a volume.
4. No continuations. You cannot follow up one snippet with another snippet of the same story. No two posts should have anything to do with one another.
5. I know I've referred the posts as "stories," but a lot of other things are acceptable. Quick observations, cunning wordplay, strange thoughts you had while you were half alseep, all these are fine. The Journal should not become a soapbox or a forum for debate, but don't be worried if your point of view makes it's way into your fiction. I don't intend to edit or remove anything that's posted.
6. Keep to the spirit of the Journal. It should be an eccentric, eclectic, and often bizarre grouping. A collective stream-of-conscious. Plus some other impressive-sounding stuff.
7. Each submission should have a title, which will be given by one of the other contributors. Put it in bold at the top of the post.
The idea here is to have a dumping ground for the snippets of writing that usually get left on the cutting room floor. Eventually (hopefully) there will be several regular posters, each of whom will contibute brief bits of his or her own writing.
But not pieces of larger stories or ongoing works, oh no. That's not what this is about. What you'll find here are all the things we wouldn't otherwise use. The things we usually think of once and then forget about or bury in a notebook or usb key. So don't expect any piece to be followed up or continued. No two posts will have anything to do with one another.
And sure, maybe posting here will bring the inspiration or encouragement to take a few beginnings and find them some endings, but if so those larger works will have to live on somewhere else. The Bored at Work Journal is all about the unfinished.
Guidelines for posting:
1. You do not talk about fight club. (sorry, had to get that joke out of the way)
1. Naturally, all posts should be the original work of the poster.
2. Posts should be short-ish in length, anywhere from just a few words to several paragraphs. A reader should be able to finish your post within a few minutes, and beyond that there's no specific length requirement.
3. No exerpts from larger works. The BaWJ is dedicated to unfinished pieces. If you want expand one of your posts into a larger work, you are free to, every post is considered copyrighted to it's author. If you do expand a post and host the larger work somewhere else, you may add a link to it on your original posting.
Note: This is not to say that your posts can't have "endings" of a sort. A very quick story with a conclusion is ok, since it's an "unexpanded" kind of "unfinished." The important part is that your posts, as they are, should not be complete enough to be published in a volume.
4. No continuations. You cannot follow up one snippet with another snippet of the same story. No two posts should have anything to do with one another.
5. I know I've referred the posts as "stories," but a lot of other things are acceptable. Quick observations, cunning wordplay, strange thoughts you had while you were half alseep, all these are fine. The Journal should not become a soapbox or a forum for debate, but don't be worried if your point of view makes it's way into your fiction. I don't intend to edit or remove anything that's posted.
6. Keep to the spirit of the Journal. It should be an eccentric, eclectic, and often bizarre grouping. A collective stream-of-conscious. Plus some other impressive-sounding stuff.
7. Each submission should have a title, which will be given by one of the other contributors. Put it in bold at the top of the post.
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