In a blog by Joanne Meier http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/33402 accessed through Reading Rockets, is a post about an online reading writing promotion event run through the Centre for the Book at the US Library of Congress.
It is like a game of what we call "consequences" where installments of a story are continued by the next person... and what a collection of authors is taking part in this collaboration : Jon Scieszka has started it off, followed by Katherine Paterson and to come luminaries such as MT Anderson, Natalie Babbitt, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), Shannon Hale, Susan Cooper, Kate Di Camillo, Calef Brown, Nikki Grimes, Steven Kellog, Linda Sue Park,Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Timothy Basil Ering, Gregory Maguire, Chris Van Dusen, Megan McDonald, James Ransome...
Here is part of Joanne Meier's post...
"Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.
Our "Exquisite Corpse Adventure" works this way: Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, has written the first episode, which is "pieced together out of so many parts that it is not possible to describe them all here, so go ahead and just start reading!" He has passed it on to a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who must eventually bring the story to an end.
Every two weeks, there will be a new episode and a new illustration. The story will conclude a year from now. To get bi-weekly updates with new Exquisite Corpse Adventure chapters, click on the subscribe link at the top of the page. "This story starts with a train rushing through the night...." No one knows where or how it will end!
http://read.gov/exquisite-corpse/
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