Feels a little like treading water until the other characters arrive – which I suppose is what it is. Lambone and Beretta will need to get scurrying across town to arrive in the next half hour!
yes this exercise is very exciting, but the authors are not organized. The threads are getting disconnected and as such I have to wait… One other problem is that no one is authoring Maryanne, the antagonist.
I enjoy this Noir theme, and I have a climax in mind, but I cannot predict what others will write. When every gets to the Topaz, the action may be hard to stitch together. We shall see.
I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing a few more authors taking roles and, yes, Maryanne would be a key one.
As much as I appreciate Ficly, it does have a few deficiencies. It allows non-linear story telling but provides no means to coordinate separate threads. I’ll have to think about how that might be best addressed.
I think that the struggle to keep the whole thing from flying apart adds to the fun. The general lack of organisation is probably because this sort of multi-handed thing hasn’t really been tried before, as far as I am aware. Uncharted territory, and therefore rather refreshing. (If I’m wrong about this then I’m sure some other more long-standing Ficly member will correct me).
As far as I know there has been no multiple-author multiple-thread collaboration work before. One or the other, yes, but not both at once (mostly because of a lack of active authors at any one time).
Forward, brave authors! Now is the time for making history!
i do see that when posting sequels, more than one can be added from a particular story. I think that August 2nd, with Nick Baretta being the first and main character, we should put all sequels in line with that thread.
This can be done by copy/paste of the disjointed threads into the main. This will also fix the timeline issue.
JonB 
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August 2nd 
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