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Just for the young person who wrote in, this may be inspiring: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/26/1161749253958.html
Hey Mur –
And now I’ve forgotten what it was!
I thought of something I wanted to comment on as I was listening to the podcast – but stupid me put off coming over and posting it.
Ah well – instead, I’ll just say “Keep up the great work!”
I have had poor experiences with the group story-writing thing. Several people and I were posting contributions to a Lovecraftian story and it was coming along very well. The problem occurred when a few of the writers decided to take the story to a different theme, that of a typical Steven King story. I have no bone against Steven King personally but his stories are often quite different than Lovecraft’s stories. The effect was that a lot of the Lovecraftian writers stopped posting, and because the story was catered under a Lovecraftian fan site, the story died.
For this to work I think there has to be a manager, a DM to use a gaming term, whom would keep some kind of focus. He or she wouldn’t control the content but would guide and protect the story.
JoMo
What was that about an “Instant Cowboy: Just Add Water” story?
I decided to take the challenge and write a story based on that title. Because I couldn’t think of anything right off the bat, I decided to ask a few people for random story elements. Here’s what I got.
* Sex scandals
* Seal hunting
* The old lady had it in for him.
* Rotting fish
* Burning greenhouse
* A large, strange and deep hole that suddenly appeared somewhere.
* A monkey that
err… I screwed up the link. Let’s try this again..
URL (in case it’s just not linking right):
http://www.gnorb.net/writing/20070903/instant-cowboy-just-add-water/#story