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Million Pound Story

Hello

We,re just posting here to shout about our online collaborative project web site Million Pound Story.

The Million Pound Story is an online collaborative writing project which is open to the entire global online writing community. The concept is very simple - we are offering contributors the opportunity to take part in a unique writing project which, if successful, will be turned into an interactive DVD with a profit share to all those who contribute to the story. The Story is to be developed though a series of votes and submissions.

We see a 12 online story development process be for we get to the story editing and final DVD production. At this stage we just want people to vote for the Genre of the story here at the following link:

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/latest_polls.shtml

If nothing else come and cast you vote and give us a little support. You can find more info on the site about what we hope to achieve and how on the site.

http://www.millionpoundstory.com

Cheers All

Million Pound Story call for submissions

The Genre Vote

The voting for Phase 1 has now finished with Fantasy being chosen for the Genre of the online story. Thank you to all who took part in this our opening vote in the project. To see the results of the genre vote visit http://www.millionpoundstory.com/last_polls.shtml The next stage of the project now begins with a call for submissions for the loose story outline.

The Loose Story Outline phase gives every one the chance to create a loose framework for the main story. This is meant to be a guide and not 100% ridged framework but is there to facilitate some structure to what could be a rather unstructured process and offer contributing writers a starting point to the story.

The Outline will define the Timeframe, basic information on the Characters, World & Environment and a loose definition of what the story is about. This phase of the project is open for submissions and will be put to a popular vote to decide which submission will be chosen to be the story outline.

A point to remember is that although the genre has been chosen, Fantasy in this case the story is not yet written and can contain many other elements like for example comedy, suspense, action, mystery etc. The story outline is not something that should be seen as limiting the story, rather more of a rough map of what might be with some starting points in there as inspiration.

To find out more information on the this next phase of the project visit: http://www.millionpoundstory.com/the_story.html

To make a submission for this next part of the project you can email your story outline to: story@millionpoundstory.com

I hope that you take the opportunity to submit a loose story outline to the project and really get things moving into this next phase. Your submissions can be as long or as short as you wish and also remember to include some details about your self and what you have done, web links, email etc. It is up to you what you want to be published on the site but all who contribute will have a page linking from the writers page on our site http://www.millionpoundstory.com/writers.html Feel free to use this to promote your other works and projects.

Forums

As we move into this next phase of the project we will be making more use of the site forum to discuss the submissions and the direction that the project is taking. We hope you take the opportunity to open a topic here and post some of your thoughts as well.

That about wraps it up for this our first Million Pound Story update the first of many. We hope you are inspired to take part and submit for phase 2 of the project as well as taking part in the forums.

Sounds like a neat idea. I'll go check it out. But is it animation related? I'm not trying to be obnoxious--just curious.

Animation related?

Sounds like a neat idea. I'll go check it out. But is it animation related? I'm not trying to be obnoxious--just curious.

Yes the end product will have animated content in it. I know its a bit strange at the moment as we are in the online story development phase. I am posting here as at this stage every one can contribute to in the development process of the story and the current vote on the genre is something I hope everyone has a preference as to what it should be.

As one who is an 3D animator I know that if your working on that personal short animated film we all seem to have in us you go thought that story development stage which is why I posted here and though that the post has some relevance. I hope you see my reasons for this post and that it is not just spam. Anyway thanks for your feed back and support cheers.

Loose Story Outline

Phase 2 of the Million Pound Story is now under way with the first Loose Story Outline submissions being posted. This is where things start to get interesting with the first steps in the story development taking place.

The submission phase is open to anyone who wishes to contribute to the project. If you wish to submit a story outline you can do so be email us on the address below:

story@millionpoundstory.com

Take a look at the post so far and see the contributors details that have been posted on the site as well.

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/story_outlines.html

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/writers.html

Last 10 Days to vote!

Its the last 10 days before we close the genre poll and begin the next stage of the story. If you have not voted yet for what you would like the genre to be cast your now at the link below:

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/latest_polls.shtml

The next stage is the submission of rough story outlines which is where things start to get interesting. We see the project as being a mix of live action and animated content. There will be some discussion of this on our project forum in the next few weeks:

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/forum.html

thanks to all who have voted and I hope you keep dropping back to see how the project develops.

Great! I've cast my vote.

Best wishes,
Pooryorik

I've cast mine too. Any word on a winner yet?

MPS Problem sorted, lets vote guys

Hello everyone:)

Last week was pretty busy . We noticed in the early part of last week an error in the poling system. Oh well an unfortunate server problem put our scripts up side down. So what was the problem? Well we did have quite few people subscribing for the newsletter and voting at same time but if the subscription was recorded, the voting system did not record anything. However we manage in the end to sort out the problem and now everything is working well. You still have a bit of time to choose the genre, I have to remind you that on the 10th of April the voting for the genre is going to be close, so cast you vote now!

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/latest_polls.shtml

Latest on the votes

At the moment Comedy is in the lead. We are looking to close this first poll around April the 10th. We hope to get more people to vote and make the out come of the vote more interesting and relevant. After that its about voting for the timeframe and we open up submissions for people to write a brief story outline as a loose framework for the story.

If anyone wants to cast a vote for the genre see the link below:

http://www.millionpoundstory.com/latest_polls.shtml