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CYOB: What Say You?
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Today I am going to present you with a hypothetical situation. Let’s just pretend for a moment that I am entertaining the idea of starting another (potentially the third) round of the Choose Your Own Blogventure series. If I were going to offer such a thing, I would say that this time around it would be a little different. This time I would have each participant pass the entire story plot, including their own segment, on to the next writer so that each segment would become a (mostly) coherent story line. Also, if I did decide to pull this thing together, I would need to decide whether or not to have a theme. The last story, No Way Home, had a sci-fi twist and it seemed to flow better when the writers had a concrete idea on which to base their stories.
I’ve been pondering the idea of another CYOB for a while now, and had a vague notion I was going to try do it during the summer months when I was relatively free from work-like obligations. Then I had a quiet nervous breakdown, defected to the UK for nearly a month, came back to a job I resented, and now here we are. Nearly October! Suddenly I got an email from out of the blue from Trev, thanking me for the last round of the CYOB that he had randomly found. “Oh yeah,” I thought, “that was fun. I should do that again sometime.” The same week, Jamie twittered that she wanted to do some fiction writing, and where was the next Choose Your Own Blogventure already? It appeared the time had arrived.
Now maybe you’ve been feeling the itch to do some creative writing, or maybe you are thinking “NPW, you one crazy ho, with your ‘hypotheticals’”. Either way, here’s what you’re going to do: you’re going to leave me a comment and let me know what you think, so that my hypothetical can either become reality or one of those things that I nervously laugh off with a “phew, really dodged the bullet on that one!” sigh to punctuate it. You can also help spread the word to see who else may or may not be interested.
Yay or nay?
Are you in or are you out? You know, hypothetically.
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29 Responses to “CYOB: What Say You?”
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I would be interested, but I am a really god awful fiction writer. So..I’ll pass. But it sounds fun! I shall read it for sure.
Holy crap, yes, I’m totally in.
Ooh ooh! Can I play?
I would like to try this.
I would gladly do this. Gladly.
Sure, I’m in.
I would love to read it. Perhaps someday I would venture into participating but for now it sounds like an interesting read. Are fans invited along?
I am OBVIOUSLY in!
I say YES! And can I be in on this one? Please?
Honestly I would probably not participate. I learned when I participated last time that I don’t really like posting fiction on my blog. But I will happily read along!
Hells to the yes, I’m in! You know me. Plus nothing sends readers to my site like a link from you oh Ms. Popular!
Oh and for Theme? In honor of Halloween and the recent fad…something horror supernatural? Fright Night for real? But let’s leave Edward and Bella out of it!
Hypothetically and/or for reals I’m in! So that would be a yes. I’m in. Um, not sure how I can make this clearer but to say I’m totally in.
I’m IN! And I promise that I won’t manage to screw up the publish date this time…
I’m totally in if I’m in town. For. Sure.
xox
woohoo…..another CYOB. the last two were crazy awesome….so write away peeps, I am dying to read the new blog/book…oh you know.
I could use the creative outlet. Do you need any help putting it together again?
In!
count me in.
I want in!
I’m totally in, as long as we don’t wait until January to start. I’ll be a little bit busy then
Awesome idea!
Even though I’m not participating this year, I’m looking forward to reading what everyone else writes.
I! AM! IN! I love CYOB.
I like the idea of a theme, but last time I was part of a thread that totally strayed from the theme (Aaron and the Popemobile, remember?) and it was a lot of fun. I also like it that we only get the segment preceding ours, because it’s so much more random that way.
i’ve been trying to face my fears and do new stuff this year but i think i’ll chicken out yet again. sorry. but i am curious what will come out this time.
I would be down, unless you want more newbies to participate, and then I would gladly step aside and just read along. I was hoping you’d do another.
Okay, weird, I was just thinking about this and wondering if you were going to do it again. And here it is.
I am so in. I missed out on the last two but loved reading them, they were so fantastic. It would be an honor and a privilege to be able to participate. Or, you know, read. Whatever. I’m good.
Oh, you know I am sitting here waving my hand in the air and crying “Pick me! Pick me!”
Hypothetically, if you want the orange cupcakes to eat the zombie, I’m in!
I know I’m a tad late, but I was out of the country when you posted this. I’d be down to participate. Last time was a lot of fun!
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