Anyone up for experimental collaboration?

It occurred to me that having seen the list of
people who seconded the original newsgroup
request there are very few of them taking any
kind of active interest in it these days.

Whereas those who are making the effort to
stick around seem to be genuinely capable
of writing--and the purpose of the group is to
elicit good original writing.

So I wondered if anyone remembers the old
party game where you fold some paper in 3
and different people draw different parts of
outlandish figures.

As such I wondered if anyone was up for a
bit of fun in terms of collaborative narratives;
kind of a variation on the "Just a Minute"
game where people speak until the bell
sounds, and then the next person carries
on, only with however many people as can be
bothered to collaborate.

I'm going to suggest a single narrative in
the first instance, if someone wishes to
start the ball rolling with, say, an opening
1500-2000 words. And if we do start it'd
be nice, perhaps, to have an idea of who's
up for it. With maybe 3-5 people it could
be quite a laugh.

But with the charter as it stands it seems
there's almost a Kafkaesque council of
willing critics to post feedback to work
but without any of them having made too
much effort to show any writing ability in
this forum.

I was just thinking that maybe if a bunch
of us actually started doing some writing
then some of the aspirinbg bards out in
cyberland might be more forthcoming with
their homework for us to mark, so to speak.

G DAEB

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