THE PITFALLS OF WRITING FIXATIONS

Experiments in Creativity: Part 3.

When 99.9% simply won’t do.

Hey folks, just a quick note about this month’s Experiment in Creativity.

It’s Part Three, so this one is all about the threes.

To bring the team up to 3, Ann James and myself has been joined by Debdutta Pal, the same team responsible for our recent exquisite corpse adventures.

We’ve taken a similar approach this time, however the five minute or ten minute time limits were considered insufficiently reverent to the number three. Time for a new timeless limit.

This time, each writer has to write 333 words, take as long as you like.

This brings the total word count to 999 words. As the illustrator of this project it seemed that this defied the laws of nuclear physics which states that a picture is worth a thousand words.

This was resolved by allowing the instigator of each episode to add a single word at the end of each episode. This would also allow the second writer to start the second episode and so forth.

The first instalment is in the can, awaiting an illustration.

Stay tuned!

You can read the previous experiments here: