How does it work?
This project is driven purely by the fabulate community. Our story will be written one page at a time,
based on submissions from our authors, which are then reviewed and selected for publication by our
reviewers. Authors are quite welcome to be reviewers, likewise you can be involved purely as a reviewer,
without ever making a submission.
Submissions are limited to 500 words, but beyond that, there is only one restriction - the book has to
make sense when read as a whole, so please read and keep up-to-date with the book before submitting.
The 500 words do not have to end with a full stop - they can end mid-sentence, new characters can be
introduced and locations changed. The whole point of the project is to see where our collective minds take us.
As this is a brand new website, uptake at the beginning will probably be slow, but please don't be discouraged
by this, we will be doing all we can to introduce the concept and the site to as many people as possible, again
the Fabulate community can help with this by passing on the information to friends or sharing details with the
wider internet community - your help with this would be very much appreciated.
There are still certain aspects to the site which are yet to be decided, for instance, should we limit the
number of submissions each person can make for a particular page? Do we stop submissions after a certain
number have been made? At present, the idea is just to let the site run it's course and make judgement calls as
required, when the community grows sufficiently for these questions to become a real concern, we will think
about changing the system. If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to contact us - again,
this project is all about the Fabulate community and your input is valued at every level.
Hopefully, at the end of this project, we will have a book the whole community can feel proud of. Assuming
we get to that stage, we will look at putting the book into publication and would like to thank successful
contributors by sharing any profits we make from selling the finished book. For a great number of fledgling
authors/writers out there, this project may well be their first chance at publication, an opportunity to
see their name in a published book, and perhaps provide the confidence for them to continue writing and creating
their own works.
Please see the FAQs and our terms for further details.
Fabulate.co.uk is run by a small group of individuals who share an interest in fiction
and in the prospect of collaborative projects based on the internet. Fabulate has received no
funding for this project, all costs are covered out of the groups own pockets.
If you would like to support the project and help us keep it alive, your
donation would be very much appreciated.