This summer, the Adirondack Center for Writing is hosting a community writing project, where Adirondack writers build a story (or many stories) over a month or two.
Have any of you ever played “And then what happened?” around the dinner table? One person starts a story, follows it through for a little while, then looks at the next person and says, “And then what happened?” That person has to pick up the story, and then the next person, and so on. We are hoping that we will end up with a story that was written by our community as a whole.
Everyone can contribute: the very young, the old, the somewhere-in-between, aspiring writers, people who just like stories… anyone! After all, storytelling has been a part of our Adirondack culture since the beginning.
Where does the story begin? Where so many Adirondack Stories do: traveling up the Northway. Who is traveling, and with which mode of transportation (car? canoe? horseback? Hitch-hiking?) and what happens to them, is entirely UP TO YOU!
How to join the story:
We’d prefer that you comment using a wordpress account (otherwise every new installment shows up as written by “anonymous,’ and we lose some of the community feel. If your comment is too raunchy to have your name above it, you might think twice about posting, anyway).
To make yourself a wordpress account:
Click the “Log in’ tab on the right under the ‘Meta’ header –>
If you already have an account, sign in. If you don’t, click ‘register’ and follow the instructions.
If you’d like a blog for your own purposes choose the ‘create new blog’ option. If you just want to comment on our blog, you’re okay with just a username.
Open the confirmation email, click the link and you’re golden.
Now, when you visit the “Add to the Story” page, you can comment with conviction and we’ll all know who you are.
