SANE Story Jam - 29 September 2009

Procedure: Everybody wrote the first line (typically a sentence, sometimes more) of a story, all pages went face-down in the center of the table, then were redistributed. After adding a new line, the page was folded to hide all but the most recent line. After a few iterations, we determined as a group how many more lines until all stories were done, to give us a chance to “wrap up” the story line. One person read each completed story, and we tried as a group to come up with a title for each. During the exercise, authors were encouraged to write a name or description of characters at the bottom of the page, to help with continuity, but this was at each author’s discretion.

Transcribed by Richard, sentences were grouped to look like paragraphs, some spellings were normalized (except where the misspellings seemed deliberate), and punctuation was adjusted to taste.

14 stories are included (the numbers in the title indicate 1st or 2nd round) - click on the "jam" label to see 'em all at once.

Next meeting, you ask? Tuesday 3 November (Election Day). Plans are afoot for the Winter Solstice Dinner at Mary Mack's on Tuesday 8 December - either a Pot Lucker or we'd Order In from somewhere good. Cheesy gifts will probably be the order of the day, distributed by some new method, no doubt. Like a helicopter or a llama. Possibly hirsute dwarves.