collective storytelling: A Moment of Weakness

this month, the London-based magazine Litro initiated a group writing experiment: they invited authors to write a collective story, one tweet at a time: "We had no idea how the experiment would turn out," Litrostory editor Emily Cleaver said. "Could a story written this way work? Would it come out as nonsense, or the whole thing fizzle out in a day?"

now the story is complete, and Litro put the tweets together on a page. it's a wild ride, but it is in fact a story.   i joined the experiment, too, with two tweets, the first is the first line of the fourth paragraph, (inspired by Zen or the Art of Motorcycle and Twitterstory Maintenance), the second is one of the ocean-kneeling moments - and was there a third? funny, i am not sure.

anyway, the whole story is up now here, it starts with:
"It was a moment of weakness. Nothing more..."

read & enjoy ~

& a screenshot from the story in process:

 

#litrostory, or: writing with strangers

today "#litrostory" started: a collective twitter fiction experiment

the idea: to create a story that is told on Twitter by as many writers as possible. i came across the announcement yesterday by chance, and got curious: how would the story start, and how would it develop? so i clicked into #litrostory today a couple of times

the screenshot above is the story after the first hours, my own tweet included. i didn't know anyone up to that point, and so good to see that my own tweet was followed by one from Chris, from the 30-in-30 project in Janaury.

and here i was, thinking this is 1-day-thing, and now i just checked the Litro website with the note on it: this is an ongoing project: "You can see the compiled story as it goes along on the Litro site – we will be updating a page with the story as it stands daily."

links:

• more about the project: listrostory info page
• the story as it develops on twitter: #litrostory