ALT.SF4M

  Chain Marriages

   • Farrell McGovern
     10/02/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     Kevin Sterner wrote:

     > That would defeat the purpose. The point of a chain novel is to write

     > fiction, while concealing one's own lack of talent by burying it in a

     > deep pile of the incompetence of others. In the end it stinks, of

     > course, but then everyone can say "well, we were just goofing around."

     > If you write on your own, then you set yourself up to share Joan

     > Collins's fate.

     I've seen chain stories (not marriages,that's for alt.polyamory), that

     were attempted by groups of competent writers...Back when I was in a

     writers group here in Ottawa called Cypherpunks (we predated the PGP

     types by about 5 years), we tried one...it was very funny, since we of

     course tried to kill off each other charactors, and keep our own

     alive...it became much like an episode of Coyote VS the Roadrunner. Was

     kind a funny to read, anvils would drop out of the sky, to be stopped by

     cocktail umbrellas, that sort of thing.

     ttyl

     Farrell