A story creating game, if you will.

[xObserveRx]

Okay, so I just read the thread by Mal about getting a creative writing/arts forum going, and I gotta say that's a pretty sweet idea. I'd love a spot to go for criticism and ideas about my work, and others' works as well.

So on the topic of writing, I propose this idea, you know, to get the wheels rolling.

Why not get as many people who want to together, and write a story. There would be stipulations though. Here's what I suggest:

- The story, no matter how many people are writing it, must always flow together well, and move forward. This means that no one can just add in "And then X jumps off a cliff and dies. The end"

- Only one person can write at a time. This means that once we get a number of people together, we'll assign a certain order in which people are allowed to add to the story. I believe this will keep you thinking ahead, and more openly about what could possibly happen next. So if we had four people writing for it, it would look something like this:

Person 1 adds 2 paragraphs
Person 2 Adds 6 paragraphs
Person 3 Adds 3 paragraphs
Person 4 adds 11 paragraphs
Person 1 adds 7 paragraphs
etc...

Which brings me to my next point.

- Each person must add AT LEAST TWO PARAGRAPHS. Writing any less than this would be pointless. I know two paragraphs seems like a small amount, but the reason I say this, is so that we can keep this thing moving along nicely. Nothing is worse than having to wait more than a day for the other writers to get their stuff together.

- Lastly, to keep everyone at least SOMEWHAT thinking alike, I suggest we have themes/topics to help keep us on track. I think this will at least give everyone some ideas of where to go with the story, and will help everyone understand where the other writers are coming from. I think we should have a list of five to seven topics, and the story shouldn't really consist of more than three or four of them.

So there you have it, my little writing game. I think this could be a wonderful opportunity to see some of the different writing styles and talents of the ffr goers, as well as be a ton of fun. Also, I do think there should be a few moderators of this game who volunteer to edit each submission for grammar and spelling, just so that anyone who wishes to read it, can make sense of it. I know there are a lot of people out there with amazing ideas, and not so amazing spelling or grammer. This game shouldn't be limited to those who know how to spell or use grammar correctly. Anyways, Once we have a few people willing to get on it, We can decide on some themes.

Just a quick thought on the theme selection...

I think each of the people writing should choose both a "time/place/job/personality" and something they think would be a good theme, to think of this, think about something you'd see as the title of an essay.

Some good examples would be:

The Dreamscape
The Moral Majority
Silent Treatment
Elementary Education

Some bad examples are:

Tom Brokaw
The bar down the street
Waitress

Understand?

The themes/topics can be taken any way the author sees fit. Nothing wrong with keeping the possibilities open, right?

So yeah, that's it. Hopefully some people will want in on this adventure.