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protodisco

375. The XTC of St. Theresa

Mar 12, 2008 01:35

OK, the first of the serial fiction project. Since it was my idea I get to introduce the title and concept, and if there is any interest we shall continue. The idea was for a vast and complex novel (that I still will consider after, if, this project comes to completion, depending) about a young girl named Theresa, whose life is perpetually ( Read more... )

serial, xtc

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jackshoegazer March 12 2008, 11:20:06 UTC

This definitely has potential. As someone who has written a semi-serialized multi-author novel before, I think this could be very fun.

Int he meantime, if you're interested, a friend of mine who works for a theatre production crew here has asked me to write a 3-page play with a theme of spring/rebirth/change. He said that I could ask other people to write one too and if it's good, he'll produce it. So, if you want to write a quick, 3-page play, I'll send it along to him. I'm going to try to write mine tonight.

protodisco March 13 2008, 07:28:42 UTC

wow, three pages? thats some pithy playwriting. i'll do my best.

jackshoegazer March 14 2008, 00:03:23 UTC

I wrote mine today. I'll post it later after my theatre friend tells me it doesn't suck a big fat cock.

infanttyrone March 12 2008, 16:17:20 UTC

Well don't I feel the ignorant piggy? I am familiar with both titles-- I mean, I've heard of both of them-- but I haven't read either.
That said, sure, I'd love to have a whack at "a young girl named Theresa." You know what I mean.

protodisco March 12 2008, 19:12:52 UTC

Ah, well The Ecstacy of St. Theresa is a sculpture. Very good indeed. You could probably find The Decay of Lying at any bookstore and it's only, like, 70 pages or so.

knick_knack April 7 2008, 03:12:10 UTC

Any progress on this? Also, I had a fairly good idea today: Parallel/Serial Novels.

Basically 6+ people get together and write for 24 hours. Here's the catch... after 12 hours, writer #1 gives his first half to writer #6 and receives writer #2's first half. He then writes his second half over the remaining 12 hours such that it'll mesh with writer #2's opening. Kind of a backwards manner of serialization that could result in an interesting bit of circular literature...

Anyways, I can only see this working if all of the participants are in the same location, so I mainly offer it as a suggestion for something you might want to try in Los Angeles... Currently trying to get something set up in SF.

protodisco April 7 2008, 07:44:10 UTC

i've almost got the first chapter written. it's taken me longer than i originally thought because i'm working pretty much all the time and putting together my grad school application (which requires a fair bit of writing as well).

also i'm a notorious procrastinator/lazy asshole. it's good that you said this though, because it will make me write instead of just forgetting a good idea.