Odyssey Into 2012
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Odyssey Into 2012
Preface
She has awakened before a gate she has no memory of opening. She has no name, and no memory of how she came to be here, at the first station of a fateful quest she does not understand but knows she must continue.Who is she?
Only you will bring her to life.
Only you will tell her story in your words and your art.
How can I contribute to the story?
- Only you will bring her to life and guide her on her quest. Only you will tell her story with your own words and your own illustrations. The story has begun -- but only the prologue has been revealed. Deviant artists and writers are now called upon to complete each of the story's eight chapters with their own storytelling and illustrations.
- Every Wednesday and Saturday in December a new original Chapter and a new original Illustration will be chosen from deviants' submissions in the comments section. Take a look at the Chapter Schedule to see when the next chapter will be published.
- The chapter and illustration chosen and published will serve as the foundation for deviant writers and artists to base their submissions for the story's next chapter continuation.
- Each illustration should illuminate what has taken place in the preceding chosen chapter. The first illustration will simply be a portrait of the story's heroine.
- After each published chapter and illustration there will be a "prompt" to suggest what might need to be revealed in the next chapter.
- Each chapter will end with the opening of the next "gate." The (8th) eigth gate will open upon story's end on New Year's Eve — Bringing... what?
- We will also need a title by story's end.
While it's not a contest, I did ask $Heidi and $grieves05
if I could randomly give away Premium Membership subscriptions and deviantWEAR to those that participate and they said yes!
— $techgnotic
Frequently Asked Questions
Your response and participation with the Odyssey into 2012 experiment has been, to say the least, utterly amazing.
A few adjustments need to be made in order to get each new chapter published by midnight of each Saturday and Wednesday.
So it is with a happy heart and bleeding eyeballs that I proclaim the new DEADLINE for each chapter's literature,
artwork (drawings, photographs, et al.) and poetry is 12:00 NOON on each Wednesday and Saturday – twelve hours before
the chosen new chapter is published. I must have enough time to give all submissions their proper consideration.
They deserve it! You can (and should) read for yourself the tremendous creations that have been submitted!
FAQ
- Artwork submissions should reflect the chapter previously published. The chosen artwork will then be published alongside that previous chapter. Yes, any art that illuminates the story is accepted, including photography. Creativity rules! (Ice sculptures are a bit of a problem – you'll have to photograph them.)
- The 300 word limitation does not mean you will be "disqualified" for submitting 320 words! I read all submissions. This is not a "contest" in the sense of rules and tricks determining "winners". It's simply that the whole point of the exercise is to see who can put the "most" into the "least"! So submitting a Dune-length chapter, while possibly brilliant, doesn't serve the purposes of this project. Write what, as the writer, you know is just right. If one less line of text will dilute something that is magic, then – don't delete that line!
- PLEASE don't be shy in offering your ideas, opinions and suggestions on how to make this first experimental "community collaboration" even more successful, even cooler and more outrageous, in future editions. Oh, yes, we will be doing this again! Your feedback on this project has been not only gratifying but absolutely essential in helping me figure out how to do this next year in the most compelling way possible.
- Yes, multiple submissions for a single chapter are acceptable. If you have more than one great idea as to where to take the story, or more than one idea for a chapter's illustration, bring it on!
- There will be a poem chosen to reflect the beginning of our tale, and a poem chosen to reflect the ending. There may be more chosen as we proceed, judging by the amazing submissions so far.
- Yes, we do need A TITLE for this adventure. Submissions will be accepted up to NOON of New Year's Eve (Dec.31) and published with the final chapter at midnight.
- Remember, this creation is not (just) about the most professional, most polished syntax and prose, nor the best command of vocabulary or grammar, nor the cleverest wordplay or most abstruse allusions. All great things, to be sure, but: I'm looking for that evocative, resonant, epiphanous something, expressed in an imagery powerful enough to transcend the limited word-count – the short straight-right Gina Carano knockout punch that ends a fight quicker than a dozen weaker, though visually-pleasing and crowd-wowing, haymakers. Narrative Haikus that spark up the brain, warm up the heart, and make a lasting phytocrystalized imprint on the ghostly artistic soul.
- Just because your chapter wasn't chosen doesn't mean you should stop writing your version of the story! Keep submitting chapters for the ongoing main story, of course. But don't end yours! You might even find a collaborator (or collaborators) among the other deviants submitting chapters. Keep alive the living organism that is taking shape in our minds via these submitted words. The seed is planted. Let a thousand new worlds, I mean words, explode and flourish!
Top Submissions
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Run
by ~Rivenmist
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
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Guys!!!I cant read this??How do I access the story?when i click on the images it gives me a read more text but I can do anything with it?And by click i mean touch im using my galaxy tab,might it be why i cant open it?