AMY AND RON GO A LITTLE OVER THE TOP
September 21, 1999
10:25 p.m.
  I need a little break here, so I'm taking one. I woke up this morning, and put the final touches on "The Taranth Stone," then mailed it back to Lisa for copy edit. Then did a quick pass on the story I wrote yesterday, currently called "The Vacation." The group met to head to the library, whereupon we spent two hours looking stuff up. I don't go to the library enough. Bottom line.   Amy and I decided to do this yesterday. We would each bring the other a sentence to start with, and we would then write those stories. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've heard that before. But here's the twist: in addition to those stories, we would also collaborate. How, you might ask? Well, we would take the two sentences and use them together, weaving them into a single story. So we did. We started with me writing the opening on our collaboration, and Amy writing the opening to her story. When I finsihsed about a thousand words, I gave her the tale on disk, and she took off on it. In the meantime, I wrote the opening to my story. And we just played tag for the rest of the day and into the evening. Here are the two sentences: Amy's story: "Gravity or not, Harry Gordon decided he was going to make eggplant a fughetti that would have made his mother proud." Ron's story: "Fifteen miles outside Rabat, Johnnie Newman threw a fragmentation grenade at the underbelly of the triceratops; it was a live grenade, yet still the triceratops kept coming." Now, I'm NOT vouching for the stories, mind you. In fact, mine is finished only in a little pseudo code that I may or may not fix up later this evening. But the process was a total blast, and the collaboration is perhaps the most over-the-top, sophomoric thing I've ever been involved in. It'll never sell of course. But, believe it or not, the thing holds together as a story, and it certainly entertains. Bottome line--I had a great time writing today.
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