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gabriel
Love and ferrets and pretending to be a writer.

2004-01-31 8:15 AM
Letter game, anyone?

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The ferrets are: eagerly waiting for Gregg and Maui to get back from their walk so that can get out and trash the apartment.

Weather: January

Reading: Singularity Sky, Charles Stross

Listening to in the car: Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler

Below is part of an email I got from my friend, Karina. She mentioned the letter game in her journal and I asked what it was. It sounds like a lot of fun to me. I'd like to play it in my journal with someone. We could make it like regualar letters, or like email, or some of both. Unless we choose a time period that has no email. You know, we could put email into a time period that didn't have it; add a bit of an alternative universe effect. Here's what Karina wrote about the letter game:

Oooh, the letter game is fun. The theory's pretty simple, actually. Person One makes up a character and writes a letter to Person Two as that character. Person Two develops a character from that letter and writes back. The two characters continue writing and exchanging letters, and bit by bit a story forms. Of course, it's a game, so there's no pressure to have a publishable story as a product, but if you do end up with one it's a bonus.

The pressure is really on Person One, who has to come up with not only a character, but also the name of the second character, the setting, the date, the basics of the situation, etc., which can make the letter game difficult to start if no one wants to take that leap. But it's fantastically fun, especially because as you start out you have no idea who your characters are or what's going to happen to them or what sneaky things your writing partner is coming up with. And the characters have to be apart for at least the most important parts of the story because everything must be told in letter form.

The letter game that I'm playing right now is a bit more complicated, as we've made it a three person letter game, and my character has some (as-yet undecided) past history with another character and so hates him rather strongly and yet has to work with him. It's highly entertaining. :)

Does that sound like fun or what? Any number of my dear reaeders are writers. Writers who like to get distracted and stuff. The person who starts it, and I'd be happy to accept that little burden, could name the person they are writing to something androgynous, so that the other person would be able to choose their own sex, and the sex of some other character Person 1 mentions.

I know Karina's too busy getting that next degree, can't start anything new till May, but Bob? Jed? Franci? John? What say?

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