Showing posts with label Dickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dickens. Show all posts

Friday, April 23, 2010

Let's Play a Game...

        Years and years ago, a few of us started a round-robin email story that, admittedly, never went very far. I remember something about a cold, gray seashore, someone walking along it, a boat, a cottage and then a box inside the cottage with a journal inside the box. Maybe a ghost. I think that's about as far as we got.
        We each wrote a paragraph or two and then handed it off to the next person on the email list. Everyone wrote in different voices and styles. A contemporary became a paranormal and, through the diary in the box, an historical.
        Or, I am just recalling it with those rosy-glo hindsight glasses that make things dead (or undead) and buried (or walking the earth when the moon is full) sometimes look a lot better than they ever were.
        I think, but am not 100 percent certain, that the "Pages" Gadget will allow us to do something similar here.  I could create a new tab, call it, oh, say, "Dickens," and everyone could continue the story as comments. 
        Could be good whacky fun.  Or, you know, not.
        Anyone game?
        If so step right up. 
        Above this post you will see the tab. So let's get clickin'.
        In for a penny (as Dickens might say), in for a pixel.

     Or, as Edward Bulwer-Lytton (and Snoopy) might write,  "It was a dark and stormy night......."