The Fringe of Madness
Upon this page a story shall unfold. Not a clean and shiny story, not a dull and common story, but a rather strange and wonderful story and that means… Well, I am done stealing The Hobbit’s hobnails, so let’s get down to business. I shall write a new short (or long) chapter every now and then (more if there is enough interest) and hope for your truly inflammatory… I mean enthusiastic comments and contributions. May the stories begin.
Another important note – Please post your criticism and spellchecking messages directly to the individual chapter entries. As soon as there is more chapters (probably when there are about 5-10) I will create a page for book 1, that will have the story as far as it has progressed with cleaned up chapters and everything else in place. You don’t need to worry about “dirtying” the chapters with your criticism and corrections (posted because there were comments with concern about this).
–MadBen
Fringe Dictionary (shall grow over time)
inconvenience store – This is where you go if you don’t like somebody and need tools to deal with the matter. Afterwards you leave rather quickly if you value your kidneys.
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Fringe Jobs (yes, you may indeed work for free – isn’t it splendid?)
proofreaders – Wanted! Preferably alive. If you like the story and feel like helping me out regularly or occasionally, please let me know in a comment on this page.
People who help out a lot might get special gifts. Returning them is forbidden. Especially if they are radioactive. You might even get to name a character, that will get snuffed in cruel and unusual ways.
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Special thanks to:
The Jaded – Thanks for lots of constructive criticism, proofreading and ideas for improvement. I hope you will keep it up, because it is really helpful! For users that like scifi stories I also recommend the blog:
http://escapingtheroutine.blogspot.com/
I’d be more than happy to help with the occasional proof-read if said help is still needed, shoot me an email or message me by other means and I’ll do what I can.
Thanks for the offer, I appreciate it. Would it be alright to post a comment with corrections for those entries that need them along with other criticism you could think of?
Also, I took a look at your blog and read the topmost story about those two space cowboys trying to salvage what turns out to be an alien spaceship – it’s a pity that it’s a short story without more details to come, because I really enjoyed it. I shall be on the lookout for more stories there when i have the time.
–MadBen
I’ll do that, if you can delete them. I’d hate to go leaving permanent “this needs fixing” messages all over your shiny new blog.
The entire blog entry part of the site is meant for the purpose of criticism and correction, so you don’t need to worry in the least about posting on the individual entries. As soon as there is a certain amount of chapters published, I will begin putting them together into a separate page for book 1, to which I will link on the main page. After the message I got from you with very helpful criticism and details of spelling mistakes I will make sure to mention you at the head of that page and will also include a link to your blog.