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CD Round Robin story
My installment of the round robin story that is being serialized in the Cemetery Dance Weekly newsletter appeared today. The story is as-yet untitled and I have no idea whatsoever where it is going.
Other contributors include:
Ray Garton
Tom Piccirilli
Brian Keene
Gary A. Braunbeck
Tim Lebbon
Al Sarrantonio
Thomas F. Monteleone
Joe Hill
John Skipp
Dominick Cancilla
With more to follow. By a strange happenstance, my installment, which fits between Sarrantonio and Monteleone, got skipped when they sent it out...but apparently no one noticed! I guess everyone's waiting for the entire story to be out before they read it.
Author: DTUK
Is this a type of story, Bev, where contributors each write something as to its continuation?
Author: Bev Vincent
Exactly right. We each wrote something on the order of 600-1000 words. Ray Garton kicked things off and we each went on from there. I think CD plans to issue the entire story as a chapbook when it's done. I pity the poor writer who has to tie this puppy up at the end!
Author: DTUK
Interesting idea. How did you find the idea of continuing your own segment from another writer's? Easy, hard? is there a central theme that was followed or do you all just go in whatever direction your interest lies?
Author: Bev Vincent
Well, we're all published horror writers, so we had that commonality and Gary's set-up really set the tone. It really didn't take me very long to pick up the thread of the story--I was glad to be early in the list of contributors rather than later because I had less material to remain consistent with. There's always the temptation to mess with whoever comes after by throwing in some real zinger from left field, but I resisted! And I really had no idea of how even I wanted the story to go after I wrote my part so I didn't feel any ownership toward the story and look forward to seeing how it ultimately all comes out.
Author: DTUK
Yes, I can understand the temptation to really throw something into the field as it were to get the next writer thinking. I think it's more of a collective interest in seeing how the story develops, rather than a binary interest on the part of the writer.
With this kind of story, does someone decide who starts and who finishes the story to keep it within a workable set of goalposts? This concept of writing looks very much fun
Author: Bev Vincent
I was thinking more of something like a land mine that would have the next person thinking: how the hell am I going to get around that?
Brian Freeman solicited the authors and he knows the order that everyone gets to go and who will wrap it up. I'm not sure if he'll be telling the later on authors how close they are to the end, though. I expect he will, though, so writers can start wrapping up threads rather than unraveling new ones.
Author: CRinVA
I have been cutting and pasting to a word file since CD starting putting these out. I did read the first three but then stopped and decided to read it all at once when it was complete. Thus, I am guilty of not knowing that your submission, chapter 6.5, was missed! ~0
I think I guessed you as the author of an early chapter, back when CD was making a contest of it!
Do you know how many authors are involved in this project?
Author: Bev Vincent
It's possible you might have been chronologically correct if you guessed the week I was supposed to appear, but didn't.
Brian made reference to “a couple of dozen” but I'm not sure how close that is to reality. It could end up being a longish piece.
Author: DTUK
Bob, would you mind as you mentioned saving these bits of story that when they are complete, emailing them to me, would be fun to read them
Author: CRinVA
yep - no problemo matey!
Author: Old Darth
Congrats Bev. I just got on the mailing list and have only gotten the last 2 installments.
Bob - I would like to be on that email list too if you don't mind.
Author: DTUK
Thanks Bob
Author: Bev Vincent
Note: The final part was published in the June 16th issue of the newsletter.
Other contributors include:
Ray Garton
Tom Piccirilli
Brian Keene
Gary A. Braunbeck
Tim Lebbon
Al Sarrantonio
Thomas F. Monteleone
Joe Hill
John Skipp
Dominick Cancilla
With more to follow. By a strange happenstance, my installment, which fits between Sarrantonio and Monteleone, got skipped when they sent it out...but apparently no one noticed! I guess everyone's waiting for the entire story to be out before they read it.
Author: DTUK
Is this a type of story, Bev, where contributors each write something as to its continuation?
Author: Bev Vincent
Exactly right. We each wrote something on the order of 600-1000 words. Ray Garton kicked things off and we each went on from there. I think CD plans to issue the entire story as a chapbook when it's done. I pity the poor writer who has to tie this puppy up at the end!
Author: DTUK
Interesting idea. How did you find the idea of continuing your own segment from another writer's? Easy, hard? is there a central theme that was followed or do you all just go in whatever direction your interest lies?
Author: Bev Vincent
Well, we're all published horror writers, so we had that commonality and Gary's set-up really set the tone. It really didn't take me very long to pick up the thread of the story--I was glad to be early in the list of contributors rather than later because I had less material to remain consistent with. There's always the temptation to mess with whoever comes after by throwing in some real zinger from left field, but I resisted! And I really had no idea of how even I wanted the story to go after I wrote my part so I didn't feel any ownership toward the story and look forward to seeing how it ultimately all comes out.
Author: DTUK
Yes, I can understand the temptation to really throw something into the field as it were to get the next writer thinking. I think it's more of a collective interest in seeing how the story develops, rather than a binary interest on the part of the writer.
With this kind of story, does someone decide who starts and who finishes the story to keep it within a workable set of goalposts? This concept of writing looks very much fun
Author: Bev Vincent
I was thinking more of something like a land mine that would have the next person thinking: how the hell am I going to get around that?
Brian Freeman solicited the authors and he knows the order that everyone gets to go and who will wrap it up. I'm not sure if he'll be telling the later on authors how close they are to the end, though. I expect he will, though, so writers can start wrapping up threads rather than unraveling new ones.
Author: CRinVA
I have been cutting and pasting to a word file since CD starting putting these out. I did read the first three but then stopped and decided to read it all at once when it was complete. Thus, I am guilty of not knowing that your submission, chapter 6.5
, was missed! ~0 I think I guessed you as the author of an early chapter, back when CD was making a contest of it!
Do you know how many authors are involved in this project?
Author: Bev Vincent
Originally posted by CRinVA
I think I guessed you as the author of an early chapter, back when CD was making a contest of it!
Do you know how many authors are involved in this project?
It's possible you might have been chronologically correct if you guessed the week I was supposed to appear, but didn't.
Brian made reference to “a couple of dozen” but I'm not sure how close that is to reality. It could end up being a longish piece.
Author: DTUK
Bob, would you mind as you mentioned saving these bits of story that when they are complete, emailing them to me, would be fun to read them
Author: CRinVA
yep - no problemo matey!
Author: Old Darth
Congrats Bev. I just got on the mailing list and have only gotten the last 2 installments.
Bob - I would like to be on that email list too if you don't mind.
Author: DTUK
Thanks Bob
Author: Bev Vincent
Cemetery Dance magazine editor Robert Morrish is hard at work on a conclusion for the Cemetery Dance Weekly Round Robin story--it's a challenge to tie these types of projects together and we expect his part of the story very soon. Keep watching Weekly for it!
Note: The final part was published in the June 16th issue of the newsletter.
Comments
{That one gave the board censor something to do!}
Back to the topic at hand, this is cool Bev, I hope I can get my hands on it when it's done.
The censor probably blew a fuse and the censor needed upgrading, lol
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