Hi there. I have been writing short novels for some time, mostly in my native language (Italian).
Now, I would like to play around with the fact that Steemit easily enables us to collect decentralized contributions to any activity, including creative writing...
Do you want to play with me? Then it works in this way:
I decide the abstract of a story, and write an introductory (very short) chapter, labelled as CHAPTER 1.
The first person willing to contribute is going to write a comment to the post containing a short chapter (labelled CHAPTER 2) which is logically connected to my CHAPTER 1 and develops the story...
Further contributors will post their own chapters as follow-ups to the last contribution submitted (e.g. CHAPTER 6, logically linked to CHAPTER 5).
Let's see what comes out..
IF YOU DONT' HAVE MUCH TIME, JUST WRITE ONE PARAGRAPH OR TWO :-)
After the first payment period (24 hours from now or so), I will post the stitched-up story resulting from your contributions (possibly with some edits, depending on my personal taste) and then we can continue from there for the next 30 days...
Ok, here we go:
ABSTRACT
Fabio and Emma are in their late 20s and live in London. Fabio is Italian, Emma comes from a small town in the north of England. Fabio has just lost his well-paid job in a major financial institution in the City, while Emma has just gotten a cool job in the fashion industry.
They have been together for three years and want to have children, but the recent professional changes are putting their relationship under
pressure. Fabio would like to either accept an offer from Wall Street and move now to New York City, or take a sabbatical year for them to travel and decide where to go and what to do next...
CHAPTER 1
A funny smell in the subway. It's not unpleasant – just weird. It reminds Fabio of one of Emma's body odours...the one he likes most.
Fabio was trying not to think about Emma for as long as possible, following last night's discussion. Sometimes he feels she doesn't realize how lucky they are: his savings can easily pay for 12 months of travelling, making love, and deciding where to go next. Ok, she has a brand new job, but they are still young and Fabio feels they should grab now their chance to travel and then decide where to settle down and have kids.
The train stops. Time to get out.
PLEASE POST YOUR FOLLOW-UP CHAPTER AND MAKE SURE YOU STATE CLEARLY YOUR CHAPTER n, WHICH SHOULD BE THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE CONTRIBUTION LABELLED AS CHAPTER n-1
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