Use the comments section to share your thoughts, ideas, and musings on the story.
What do you like about this project? What do you dislike?
Most writers are control freaks -- we have a distinct idea of where we want a story to go, and it makes us feel unsettled when someone else takes it in a different direction! Have you noticed this element of the Community Storytelling Experiment?
Thoughts thoughts thoughts!
Let's have it...
A postscript:
Read a free (awesome!) story on the Eat To Stay Alive page
Read a small sample of The Great Lenore
Read my recent interview on The Inspiration Collective if you're feeling especially adventurous!
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If the person who posted the first contribution to the story had not posted anonymously, I would email them and say:
ReplyDelete"That was a beautiful first addition to the story! I especially loved sentences two and three...and I'm thrilled with the direction you've guided the story in already. Great job, deciding that Eric and Jimmy are father and son."
Awesome.
Democracy - I got shivers when I read your contribution! That might be because I have a fan blowing on me right now, but...it's also because I love it when these stories start to take shape! "Gangly, pale boy from Baltimore" - love it!
ReplyDeleteIt's 6:55 A.M. on the East Coast, we're about 10 additions into the story, and...yeah. We've kind of lost the idea of "The Happiest Story Alive." I'm going to try to get it back on the road to happiness!
ReplyDeleteHi - i'm new to this blog/community story but i love the idea. I used to do it when i first discover chat rooms in the late 90s. But could someone tell me how to post my contributions so that it shows? I tried yesterday but it never got posted.
ReplyDeleteThanks
Paulette (diversgurl on twitter)
Too bad there were less contributors this time around. Maybe leaving it for a longer period would help?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I missed this one...I came across it when I would have been first, and I didn't feel up to that great responsibility. Here's what I think about the story this time:
ReplyDeleteI think it was harder to do this story because you insisted that it had to be "happy." But happiness can't exist in a vacuum: it's a yin and yang. If there's no conflict, no tragedy, no sorrow or evil, how do you really know when there is sweetness and good? I think the entries came out disjointed because everyone was individually trying to create context for the happiness. Because that context couldn't be overt, there were ultimately variations in its content that led to the lack of connection between posts.
This was a fascinating, almost pataphysical writing experiment. I learned a ton! Thank you!