August 8, 2008 8:36 PM GMT
Welcome
to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative
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IMAGINARIES
Imaginaries, formerly the mouthful "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Co-operative", is a global writers' co-operative for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and whatever else happens to slip through the cracks; we work together to improve each-other's writing by sharing works, ideas, news, and criticism. Membership is open to anyone interested in participating in this process. To learn more, see the FAQ, or just poke around for a bit.
MOST RECENT CRUCIBLE ENTRIES
| Exeron a new begining (by Valdark Silver ) | |||
| Scifi | - | 3081 words | 21-Jul-08 |
| Portraits (by Spencer) | |||
| Fantasy | PG | 388 words | 21-Jul-08 |
| Monster (by Adam Lowe) | |||
| Scifi | R | 8300 words | 14-Jul-08 |
RECENT CHALLENGES (must be a member)
| Weird Tales spam challenge | |
| Write a flash-fiction story--under 500 words--based on a spam you've received. http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2008/07/26/weird-tales-writing-contest/ | |
| Water Micro Challenge | |
| 500 words somehow related to "water". | |
| Air Micro Challenge | |
| 500 words somehow related to "air". | |
RECENT POLLS (must be a member)
| 4th Quarter Challenge Theme | |
| Arrange your favorite Challenge themes in the spaces below for the 4th quarter of 2006. | |
| 3rd Quarter Challenge 2006 | |
| Vote for your favorite theme for the 3rd Quarter Challenge for 2006. Get your votes in by the end of Sunday, August 13. Let's make the story up to 5,000 words and have it due by Sept. 31, 2006 | |
| Challenge Poll 2006.1 | |
| Pickachallenge. | |
NEWS
Current and not-so-current happenings
- August 16, 2006
In an effort to show that this place is fairly active, despite the static homepage... I made the homepage less static. Now you'll hardly notice the news happenings because of the "most recent crucible entries", "recent polls", and "recent challenges" above it.
Also I added some quicklinks and explanation from the crucible page, AND and AND added an atom feed for the crucible so folks can see what stuff comes in!
- Feb 19, 2006 to
Mar 1, 2006MAR 8, 2006STILL OPEN! 2005 RSA Voting -- DEADLINE EXTENDED INDEFINITELY
Send your votes to allanmcdonald [AT] mac [DOT] com in the form of:
- Top three crucible entries
- Top three challenge entries
In both cases include the story and the author. It would help when sending to put "RSA Awards" in the subject so my mail filter will catch it.
- Dec 16, 2005
- We're not dead yet! There's a constant undercurrent of postings and crittings, and the odd spurt of discussion. Now, with Wiki! We're testing out using a MediaWiki to work on some shared worlds, including the old Co-op world. There are currently two challenges outstanding (entries due Jan4 and Feb5, respectively), and four items in the crucible. Have at!
- May 1, 2005
- Site is on a new server. Was down for maybe two hours. Mail may still be quirky--about to test that (as of 4:30pm Pacific time)
- Feb 3, 2005
- The site's been seeing some activity. It's nice. Still a lot of work to do. But I posted Lesleigh's "First Line" workshop thing, and there's a "Double Story" challenge going on.
- October 19, 2004
- NEW SITE LIVE. Mailing lists are up. If you have an old account, the process to upgrading to a new account is to try to log in and then follow the instructions from there (you should be given special instructions). TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement crit system, add 'bounce' testing to mailing lists, add bounce mail to addresses trying to post that are not members, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions.
- September 6, 2004
- I still need to wrap this "news" stuff. And decide what exactly's going to go in it. For now, TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement vote resolution system, implement crit system, implement mailing lists, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions. Deem the new site good enough and move it over, retiring the old site.
- April 9, 2003
- begin redesign based on pasi's info and thoughts and whatnot. TODO: finalize look, better spider, maybe do UML modeling and feature list and all that good stuff, figure out the methodology for dynamically changing the locationbar. dynamically change "section" bar? or add to it when in deeper areas? links to members on front page should be links to their member info. ascertain strategy for moving old code. figure out what goes in newsbox and how that's archived... don't forget voting booth... rsa nominations... rewrite of faqs (once again)... linking to legacy areas (once again.......)... find somewhere or somewhy to put in a calendar? suggestions board?
- 2003
- Site redeveloped in jsp (yeah, I know...)
- 2000
- Site redeveloped in jsp, then php
- 1999
- Renamed "Imaginaries"
- 1998
- Kaolin Fire was duped into taking over. ;) Site migrated from AOL to cgi on transbay. site actually written in c!
- 1996
- The "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative" was founded back in 1996 or so by one Mark Bonica. Site developed in pure html.
© 1996 - 2008 imaginaries and respective authors. all works displayed are considered "works in progress".