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ChrisBeckett

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July 31st, 2008 9:26 PM

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ELEPHANT WORDS

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I've mentioned the Elephant Words site here before. it's a place where six writers create a new story, poem, written piece, based upon a new image that is uploaded every Sunday. the trick is that the writers are on a rotating schedule so that a new piece is on the site every day. So, writer 1 must create a new story within a rough 24 hour window in order to have a new piece on Monday, writer 2 creates a story for Tuesday, and so on until 6 puts up his (there's yet to be a female in the fold) piece on Saturday. Then everyone shifts, and writer 1 now posts the new image for Sunday and everyone moves up one space, allowing the "bearer of the image" to have nearly six days to conceive a new piece. And so on.

Well, with the first anniversary of the site a few of the regular writers have decided to walk away or take some time off to recharge their batteries. This means there are a bunch of new writers taking a whack at this crazy experiment and I'm lucky enough to be on for the next six weeks.

The new season actually began this past Sunday with a new image from regular contributor Andrew Cheverton. And, since I spent much of the first five to six months throwing my own contributions up in the public forum, Nick Papaconstantinou - who came up with the idea - pegged me to be writer 1 and have the first 24 hour window.

You can check out the image here and my piece can be found here.

Check it out and let me know what you think. I was going for a particular feel with the story and would love to have a chance to really revise it so that it feels more balanced, in my opinion, but for a 24 hour window, I'm pretty happy with it.

chris

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