I agree with @deirdyweirdy, that's perhaps the funniest tragic tale I've ever read. "Let's move to the country where chickens don't have to fight for a living" is still making me laugh, even as I cut and paste it into this comment. I mean, I guess at least the chickens were bound for happier lives, even if the couple wasn't 🤣.
Side note: I'm curious, how did the husband (is that the right word for him, btw, husband? Or is he more like a "male wife"? I know it's not pc to say such things in the current environment, but it's hard to tell who's the boy and who's the girl here, which is also quite entertaining) happen to have a glass eye?
It makes me want to do chain fiction. Do people still do that here?
When you've answered my questions, I'll answer yours.
It's a freewrite! I dunno, they didn't tell me!
What is chain fiction?
🤣 ok fair enough. I'm still waiting for my characters to tell me a bunch of stuff too.
Chain fiction...I think that's what it's called. It's where one person starts a story, the next person picks it up from there, and so on, until you have a whole (usually really weird) story from beginning to end.
BTW I suspect that some of your questions might be answered in EP 4. But maybe not. It depends on how much JK and JPJ are willing to divulge.
I'm game. Let's just do it. My freewrites often are snippets of a longer untold story. I used to host wewrite contests with those, but contests proved to be a bit too much work, for too little return, for me. The continuations were cool to read though, how people go into radically different worlds was very interesting.
Agreed, we should just do it. We need to rope in a few more participants, tho. Any ideas?
check out the continuation I just wrote per request (begged for actually) by @buckaroobaby. It's mostly a wrapped up story at this point. You've rejoined us at an especially good time, freewritehouse is hopping! Perhaps @deirdyweirdy, @trucklife-family, @riverflows, @felt.buzz, @carolkean, @itsostylish, @deeanndmathews would be interested. How does it work? Does the first author tag someone to finish it, or do we just see who responds? Do the subsequent stories have to be freewrites?
Oh I L.O.V.E that idea! Finishing other stories could be entertaining ..... or embarressing. I guess it depends which side of the story you're holding the pen
I dunno. I guess we get to make up the rules! I propose we keep it in freewrite for this first try. I think we need a hashtag for it (#chainfiction? #exquisitecorpse?), and somebody should do a post that lists the episodes in order as they come out. I'm not sure how to choose the order of who goes when, tho. This can get very confusing if not handled properly. Any suggestions? When we're ready, I'd be happy to do a post inviting and tagging participants, unless someone else wants to do it.
The old tag was #we-write ... someone starts it, authors have a week to finish it ... BUT then, there is a possibility of #chainfiction ... but the challenge then becomes that we end up writing a big "Choose Your Own Adventure" story ... two different episodes X lead to people writing different follow-ups, and suddenly, you have two alternative universes... or more ... BUT, hey, #tree-write is possible too ... just accept the tree format, and ask people to mark whose previous entry they are responding to!
I like that idea. It could blossum nicely.
I would be up for this too, if it happens please tag me as I might miss it otherwise. Thanks for thinking of me @owasco xxxxxx
OK I will try to remember to tag folks, if they don't mind!