One of the things our group likes to do, but doesn't do often enough, is called a Round-Owl. It is essentially a round-robin writing exercise. The rules are simple. Everyone starts writing a story. After a preset amount of time, everyone passes their paper to the next person. That next person continues the story and then passes it on. This continues until everyone has written a part of each story. The last person in the round finishes the story in any way that they can.
Our first NaNoPrepMo session was a basics type session. We went over rules, basic tools to use, our plans for NaNoWriMo this year, and opened the floor to questions. Most of this information can either be found in the NaNo-site's FAQ (for rules and information) or our forum's calendar (for set plans). We followed that with a Round-Owl. Nine of our members participated, thus producing nine short stories. Each participant agreed to allow the stories to be posted to this blog. Each burst of writing lasted for only five minutes.
The next nine posts will be those short stories. They were all written quickly, with little to no forethought or editing. Each story is here with all spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes intact. These were also written by hand, and so there are places where question marks indicate uncertainty about what was written. Any comments to clarify those areas would be appreciated.
Our first NaNoPrepMo session was a basics type session. We went over rules, basic tools to use, our plans for NaNoWriMo this year, and opened the floor to questions. Most of this information can either be found in the NaNo-site's FAQ (for rules and information) or our forum's calendar (for set plans). We followed that with a Round-Owl. Nine of our members participated, thus producing nine short stories. Each participant agreed to allow the stories to be posted to this blog. Each burst of writing lasted for only five minutes.
The next nine posts will be those short stories. They were all written quickly, with little to no forethought or editing. Each story is here with all spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes intact. These were also written by hand, and so there are places where question marks indicate uncertainty about what was written. Any comments to clarify those areas would be appreciated.