The Experiment

The Experiment FUpdate (updated June 8, 2007 8:30 AM)

This is the last of the updates for The Experiment that will appear on this blog. The updates and any information will now be in The Experiment blog.

All the contributors send and email to minzesm@comcast.net with your blog address. We will get started when I receive this information from everyone.

The updated commercial is posted. It is also posted on The Experiment web site.

Happy weekend!

The Experiment Update (updated June 7, 2007 7:10 PM)

Well, it'd time to closed the door to contributors for The Experiment. We have 27 people for this project.

Here they are:

Mike M
Odat
evalinn
Akelamalu
Crazy Working Mom
Queenie
julia
Rach
Annelisa
Paul Champagne
MONA
Monalea
Calamity Jen
Mebsmommy
Bean
buffalodickdy
rendall tilden
I'm_Inspired
ميرة البلطجية
Sally Lomax
Linda
Princess of Egypt
Mags
Voyager
GEWELS
Blancodeviosa
Paula Harrington

Tomorrow I will post the instructions for sending me your email addresses so I can add you to The Experiment blog to post your paragraphs.

We have a lot of eyes watching us so lets have some fun.

The Experiment Update (updated June 6, 2007 6:54 PM)

We have a few more people to add to The Experiment

Bean
buffalodickdy
rendall tilden
I'm_Inspired

Welcome aboard everyone. That is 18 writers! Thursday is the last day we will be letting people join. I suppose we have to start sometime, huh?

I also updated the promotional commercial with the additional contributors.

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The Experiment Update (updated June 6, 2007 6:54 AM)

There is still time to get in on the action. If you want to participate in The Experiment, just leave a comment below indicating your interest. You don't have to be a professional writer. If you like to write, this is a good way to show it off.

The Experiment Update (updated June 5, 2007 9:26 PM)

Web commercial posted. Look above!!!

The Experiment Update (updated June 5, 2007 5:41 PM)

Good evening class. We have had a lot of responses to The Experiment. So far is is the list of all the people who are contributers:

Odat
evalinn
Akelamalu
Crazy Working Mom
Queenie
julia
Rach
Annelisa
Paul Champagne
Mike M
MONA
Monalea
Calamity Jen
Mebsmommy

14 of us so far. I know some other people who want to get involved but they can't get to the site just yet, so we can hold out a few more days.

I have already begun promoting "The Experiment". You can visit the blog here The web commercial will be posted soon and available for download and distribution.

Keep checking here for updates daily. Once we get all the contributors signed on we will need to exchange email addresses and I have a safe and secure way to do that.

The Experiment Update (updated June 5, 2007 7:27 AM)

We have 3 more people to add to The Experiment for a total so far of 13

MONA
Monalea
Calamity Jen

We will wait a little longer

Anyone is free to join. Just leave a comment below indicating your interest.

The Experiment Update (updated June 4, 2007 7:07 PM)

Good evening class. The Experiment is beginning with a bang. Many good writers have already signed on as I am sure many more will, so we will wait a few days before we begin, to allow other people to join.

I have created another blog site where we can post our stuff. It's here The Experiment.

Once we begin, I will make everyone participating in The Experiment a team member of the site and we can post our paragraphs there as well as on your own blogs.

So far we have 10 participants: They are:

Odat
evalinn
Akelamalu
Crazy Working Mom
Queenie
julia
Rach
Annelisa
Paul Champagne
Mike M

Have a nice evening class

The Experiment (posted June 4th, 2007)

Good morning class. I’m Mr. MikeM and I will be your instructor today. It seems Mr. I-am-a-better-writer-than-you-will-ever-be was in a flaming car accident. Something about breaks cut…..gasoline in the back seat and drugs found in his trunk.

Mr. What’s His Name believed that you are only a good writer with training and development, but as I’ve seen from the many blogs I have visited, there are great writers all over. They just need to be given a chance to express an idea in the right way.

So class, today we are going to throw your old teachers’ lesson plans and do something that we all can be a part of. We are going to actually write something together.

The technique is called “collaborative brain storming” but we are going to take it to the next level.

Here is how it works. I will write an opening paragraph or two to a story and then pass it to the next person. The next person writes the next two or three paragraphs and passes it to the next person. They write the next paragraph or two or three and pass it on to the next person.

And so on until we have a story.

The only writing rule is that you write what you want too. Be creative (as I know all of you are). If you want to kill off the main character in the third paragraph, do so. That is what makes this an interesting project. The next writer will have to be creative and make the story flow.

So what do you say class? What to do this?

Just leave a comment below if you want to participate. After we get enough people I will update this post with the first couple of paragraphs of the story and tag the first person. Then they will write the next part, post it on their blog and tag the next person.

In the end we should have a very interesting and colorful story written by interesting and colorful people. The end result I will get published somewhere. Every one who contributes will get credit.

Are you in?