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Happy April Fools Day
Happy April Fools' Day!
Lyn Thorne-Alder and I had an idea, a few months back, to experiment with writing each others' stories. What better opportunity than April Fool's Day? We really can't take any credit, however, as we were as hands-off as it is possible to be while still running an event. The hilarity, cleverness and general fantastic ability of people who participated speaks for itself, so without further ado, the master list:
- Craig writes Emerald Heights: Amber Heights
- Alexander H. writes Word Cereal: X-52 SCG
- Cassandra writes Phoenix 2125: The Messenger
- Kiplet writes Zombie Diapers: Me And That Train
- MeiLin writes City of Roses: Poisson (Opening)
- M.E. writes Scryer's Gulch: The End…?
- Karen writes Guts and Sass, An Anti-Epic: The Ship - 3
- Clare writes Philosopher in Arms: Chapter 459
- Shirley M. writes Chatoyant College: Rolling Her Bones
- Isa writes Eclipse Court: An Ancient Ritual
- Lyn writes The Freelancers: Chapter 6
- Ysabet writes Addergoole: (Not live yet.)
- Wyste writes Chaos Fighters: Barracuda
- Robert Rodgers writes Tapestry: Conversations with a Horse
- Derek Jacobs writes Arcadia Snips: In Which a Street Requires Cleaning
- Allan T. writes Terra Fabula: Untitled!
- Gavin writes An Empire at War: Chapter 20
- Jim writes The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin: Insanity
Responses
Posted 8 years ago
That all said, I just about died reading some of these. He's dead, Jim!
http://www.lucyweaver.net/tapestry
Posted 8 years ago
This was great fun. Glad I could participate!
Posted 8 years ago
It was a very fun project. Thanks to Wysteria and Lyn for organizing!
Posted 8 years ago
I had a great time participating and I thank Gavin for his contribution to my story!
Posted 8 years ago
It was fun; I have a particular fondness for playing around in other people's worlds. Thanks to all those who helped make it possible!
Skull
Posted 8 years ago
I had a blast trying to mimic Allan's story (which I love reading too) and then make it funny, I hope I succeeded. I really enjoyed Jim Zoetewey's handling of my story as well, I laughed out loud reading it. Hope everyone else had as much fun as I did, this was great.
Posted 8 years ago
Indeed, i loved torturing characters other than my own, can't wait for next year!
Posted 8 years ago
I've only gotten through half of them so far! Some of them are so funny that I've manages to scare the cat into the other room for hours at a time laughing! Incidentally, one of you might very well owe me a new keyboard for making me spit tea all over it...lol (j/k)
Posted 8 years ago
Whether or not I was funny, I think I managed the highest body count of all the participants. Don't know that that's a good thing, but it amuses me slightly.
Incidentally, Gavin wrote an April Fools post. Around the same time, Robert wrote part of an April Fools post that's become story sized. Assuming he wants to finish it, I'll post it all.
My Blog (Jim's Brain Online)
Posted 8 years ago
I just had so much fun seeing Jim's take on my characters I thought he might like to see someone else play with his toys too. I actually look forward to Robert's, given that it's a whole storyline - mine was just supposed to be a gag like the others. Whether it's actually funny, however, is a totally separate question.
Posted 8 years ago
Hello All -
Fun Fact #1: Amber is my wife's name as well as an excellent opposing color/stone to Emerald.
Fun Fact #2: I've been reading a whole bunch of JA Konrath's blog lately, so of course Frank's drink of choice was a whiskey sour.
Fun Fact #3: In my editing, I missed this: "...she’s practically apart of the family." I believe I may have, inadvertently, had Mildred the maid rip the McKinelle family to shreds instead of making her like a member of it :)
Posted 8 years ago
Too bad I have a misunderstanding about the concept of guest post and ended up rejected last minute. This serves me a good lesson if I am to write a guest post next time.
Posted 8 years ago
Jim, that may be, but I killed the last living human, dooming the human race.
Posted 4 years ago
THREADCHROMANCY! man, good times. GOOD TIMES>
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