So to keep our efforts going with something light and fun, I propose we try the collab writing technique but on bb. One small paragraph each at a time. Check back often and add to the posting. I'll get it started. I'm sure you'll be making it challenging for me? 

We should be able to make light edits to each other's work, just to make the story consistent.


Declare all universal variables here:

Storylines are in these four colors


X's work will be bolded
A's work will normal

Char man1=Anderson
Char man2= Mr. Shultz
Char woman1= Ms. Cortez
Char woman2=Alice
Char woman3=Claire
Char boy1=Caleb
Char pet1=Mario
Setting place1=Toronto

I see where this is going. I propose some rules: max 4 parallel story lines, they'll likely all come together in the end but for now 4 should be max. we cannot continue our own piece, therefore once all four are started I cannot go back to Anderson right away. 



( i. )


( ii. )


( iii. )


( iv. )


( v. )


( vi. )


( vii. )


( viii. )


( ix. )


( x. )


( xi. )


( xii. ) 


Start a new thread once these are completed.

( business as usual, then )

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made some quick edits, may do some more.
but yes, I am so proud of us! :D

here is a little poetry for shits and giggles, inspired by 'the libertine' which I have to write a report on. I think it started well, but soon it just dissolved into pseudo old english.

-X

( Read more (write more?)... )

random stuff is fun (and hopefully not too hard to follow)

~A

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( and the newsprint lied )

 inspired by your piece, so of course, not as good. imitations never are. well it's pretty different really...

and the tense changes likely stretched my writing ability, i apologize ahead of time, but i'm very tired, lol...

X~

( madeleines )

so ironically enough, after writing that whole entry legitimizing non-sense, I'm going to post a short story-piece-thing that I wrote last year but didn't bother to come back to till now. It's odd and short and kind of mythological but since I haven't made a post in a while, here you are anyway:

~A

( X's Thoughts )
 

( 'What is your name, child?' )

I really want to keep the writing going and to keep it low-key and low-stress for both of us. I think a possible solution could be proposed. Or at least, I think I'll try it because I am getting kind of frustrated trying to think inside the box in order to continue my stories (and that is not helping the creativity any). So I propose that whenever we get a spare moment or have some ridiculous source of inspiration, we can jot down and share some blurbs here. they don't have to have any sequence or logic or whatever (if they do, then great) but this is more for the sake of killing the inner critic and just keeping ourselves going. it can be fiction, nonfiction, personal, observational, partly nonsense, whatever the hell, and explanations are optional. we'll keep em under lj cuts as usual, and well..let's just see how this goes. this is all very experimental and may backfire massively but yeah, I'm willing to take a chance. the one thing we'll probably have to work out is the comment/review system since I don't know if it'd be wise to have these pieces edited as chunks of stories, the way we've been doing with the others so far. whenever you get a moment, any input/suggestions will be muchly appreciated, dear co-journal-using friend of mine! & hopefully this will help us both contribute more often and who knows, it may even be secretly therapeutic.

long story short: think of it as poets corner...on crack? ooh there should be a witty new tag along those lines for that. crack corner? or, yeah...i'll try to work on that

(also, this is not to say that we can't keep posting stuff the way we've been doing because those stories are also important and awesome and need to be told!)

~A

 Thought I'd get back to the world of Paris and Vienna. I think this piece is cute, and ripe with verb tense issues too likely. Planning follow ups of actual festivities.

Cheers,

X~

oh crap. sorry, i kinda commented in your entry instead of starting a new cut. gah! this goes to show how out of practice i am with reading your entries. hm.m..i wonder whose fault that is

( Giant Ferris Wheel )

well it's only kind of an epilogue since I still have to explain all that other stuff. written ages ago and probably more fun for me to write than you to read, but have fun nonetheless, and I am off to fly in 2 hours.

~A


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( the following Thursday... )

 

 

 

( X's Thoughts )

 

good god, it's been over a month. anyway, this is a short and sort of half-assed conclusion to graveyard adventures (though more will follow, just outside the graveyards) because although it could have become monstrously long, I need to tame this beast somehow. Also, there is a somewhat-irrelevant epilogue which I quite possibly like a lot more than the other pieces of this.

Also, I wrote a bunch of new random stuff today after reading a stellar piece of fiction and getting inspired and thinking about the role of personal choice and how it factors into a lot of the things that we struggle with. anyway, that will be coming in the near future as well.

anyway, here you go. *grumble* let's not forget that this is a collaborative writing journal, okay? =P

~A

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( X's Thoughts )

 

( you can hear your heart talk )

so yeah, I figured I'd finally post this. I've been struggling with it for like...seven months now? but that's probably making it sound like a ~supersignificant~ piece though it's really not climactic at all. Just little plot-like details that might come up later.

Anyway, more graveyard adventures. This whole story-arc will be wrapped up soon (it wasn't meant to have even nearly as many parts as it does now but I guess it keeps me writing so yeah). Also, the POV switches somewhere along the way here...I tried to fix it but it didn't work out any other way. Hopefully that doesn't take away from everything else...

~A


( X's Thoughts )

 

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( you have gone and dreamt them dry )

so I've discovered my problem. It's not that I don't have ideas, its that I am completely lacking the attention span required to sit down and put them into words. Anyway, I found a rough version of an old piece on my computer and though I'd pretty much abandoned the idea of doing anything else relating to this story, rereading it made me miss it and so I fixed it up a bit and maybe there will be more, who knows? (I sure don't)

I guess this can be the 'and so it begins' part of the story or something?

~A

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( but we don't know why and we don't know how )

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( X's Thoughts )

Geez it's been a month + eh? This better not be the new trend.

Anywho, here it is, the long awaited. You'd think i'd write something better having taken a month.

X~

( 2 years )

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( A's thoughts )

feels like a year since I posted or something. nothing epic or significant, just a random piece from story #3 which gets abandoned on and off (I'm starting to think it can only really be written in the warmer seasons)...sort of inspired by the random study break pizza runs we'd made from Robarts at 3 a.m. and me missing the city in general now that I'm back in suburbia for good

~A

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( Pizza Boy )

( X's Thoughts )

Lol, so I was thinking about this topic a bit on the go train and decided to dump my thoughts onto paper. Let me know if this is tedious to read, or complete BS, or illogical. In my head I had it pretty well thought through, so ask questions if they are any.

and i couldn't let it go a whole month without a post.

sigh so keep in mind I just wrote this up with little to no editing.

( why we fail at women )

Cheers,

X~

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haha, this got sorta long...

 

 

( A's thoughts )

 

 

writing about writer's block is always fun. Hah, I don't know when this is set...probably somewhere near the end of the series...yeah, I still have 2 ongoing pieces to finish >_<

~A

( X's thoughts )

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( Today, Marina is sitting outside )

okay this was a long time coming mostly because i never bothered to finish it properly. actually the ending section i left out because i just couldn't make it work. maybe i'll post that as a separate. any who, hope this piece keeps BB alive a little longer.

oh and the not using of 'starbuicks' is in case this ever does get published, it would be terrible if i were to be sued.

hope i haven't forgotten how to write...

X~

( Coffee House Blues... )

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( A's thoughts )

so yeah, this is totally not graveyard adventures (not even remotely linked to the plot of AS at all) but wonderfully relevant to the happenings in real life somehow. also, I just wanted to write, and who cares if it makes sense, right?

~A

( seems like death loved you back )( X's Thoughts )

I've been wondering for a long time how I would approach this piece. Sorry for taking so long to post. And okay, this piece may have been initially inspired by HIMYM.

oh, lol, I may have found myself an equivalent to your MCAT prep class guy. Mine is the 'new girl with the unplaceable accent'

~X

( Introductions )

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( A's thoughts )

more G.A. (part 3c)

yeah, I'm totally flooding, and don't worry, I don't expect you read it till next week or whatever but I think posting just lets me move the hell on from a piece and work on other stuff, so yeah...

If all goes well, I think there are 2 more pieces of graveyard adventures, and yeah, you're right, I really should string it together with b&w though they do take place a while apart (...I think this one comes after, as weird as it may sound)

</end rant>

~A

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( I would keep myself (I would find a way) )

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( X's Thoughts )