"Tell Me More!" Challenge Guidelines

The idea comes from James Patterson; tell a friend the idea for a book and how they respond says how much the idea grabs them. Post your idea and let people respond. Post in "The Forge", with one idea per topic. Title the topic:

"Tell Me More" Challenge -- <bookname>

Possible responses are:

"Tell me more!" The idea grabs them.
"Can you expand on ..." Something confusing prevents the grab.
"Not feeling it." This one needs a lot of work.

Honest feedback is precious; give your Holy Worlds brothers and sisters a thoughtful, honest, and encouraging response

Fantastic idea. I love it. Going to see if I can't get some stuff posted this week.

Stickied this rules post. Let's do this thing!

Maybe there should be an entire subforum for it? To keep things neater? (It took me a minute to notice this sticky above all the posts - I was reading them going, "what exactly is the challenge?" *head-scratch*)

If the challenge continues to gain popularity, yes, we can consider a subforum for it.

Is popularity determined by posts or responses to posts? Because if it's posts, I can help it along a little bit...

I thought figuring it out was part of the challenge?

Honing the blurbs helps me clarify my thoughts and see blind spots I missed. I like what my characters are doing but others need more detail to enjoy the stories as much as I do.

I more so meant posting other "Tell Me More" Challenges for my own stories (I have this terrible problem of starting a story and then deciding that I need another before it...and another and another and another. Poor Teyn. She's going to have to wait a long time.)

But I can pick at your posted challenges too, if you want.

I WANT!!!!! Please?

*bows*

Let me try to round up Eadryl, Savlyn, and Teyn (*cough cough* Gwenlyn)...

*laughs* I just don't like to start subforums willy-nilly, because it gets cluttered. If we see multiple authors (you can't do it by yourself, sorry ) posting frequently, and it starts cluttering the main forum, we'll herd the cats into their own category.

I can get Gumpy, Dumpy, and Flumpy commenting. We seldom agree though.

*mutters something about fetching DoodleWriter*

So if I'm understanding right, the challenge is more about seeing if our story ideas are interesting and honing them than in the blurbs themselves (though sometimes honing the blurb does the same job)?

That is correct. The goal is to get the reader's knee-jerk reaction to your blurb. If they were in the bookstore and read that blurb on the back cover of a book, what would their reaction be? Read it, shelve it, maybe with more information? In the process you are able to refine your blurb as well as get a sense of how engaging your story concept is.