As crazy ideas go, this must rank as one of the craziest, if not THE craziest. I once wrote a short story (5 lines in length) and then decided to stretch it for a week and ended up with 7 stories. My friend Natasha (Twitter handle @nuts2406) followed it with 7 stories by her with contrasting titles. She thrives on working within some constraints. I had discussed this in my previous blog. One thing led to another, and soon we were contemplating about writing a poem with each one writing alternate lines. We discarded the poem format as we are not poets. We can’t write prose also, but we were certain that prose is easier than a poem.
And so, after some
pre-agreements (we shall not walk into the temptation of doing a one-up on the
other, etc..) we started this experiment on the 3rd of Feb. We did not
know, then, that it would last a month, total up 21k words, drive each one of
us completely insane, if we had been living in the same locality we would have
probably gone and killed the other.
We started, and initially we
were lost, we had to delete and rewrite few of the first tweets, but sooner
than any of us imagined, we fell into a rhythm. It is strange to find another
person whose thinking is so much like yours, the tastes similar and the appetite
for adventure equal.
It was only after nearly the
70% of the story was done, we discussed on how to proceed and end. Even after
that, we had our flashes of brilliant ideas, and the story changed courses
multiple times. It was heading towards a timid end, when one of our regular
readers was dismayed and we decided to bring in the twist, and that made all
the difference.
Usually the author (in this
case the authors) writes the story. In this incident, we are guilty of only
starting it, then the story wrote itself and playing to the gallery made it
even more interesting.
We enjoyed it thoroughly. In
fact, when it ended, we suddenly felt empty.
Hope you enjoy reading it.
The following threader app
gives you a seamless read – you do not have to navigate the labyrinth called
Twitter.
https://threader.app/conversation/1356893296954658818/8G4RZzEtGS
