[UA] Collaborative Novel

[Twist0059 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/99 11:14:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, jonw at flink.com 
writes:

> Had an idea last night about your novel deal that I wanted to throw at
>  you...
>  
>  You could do it from the standpoint that the main character is not a 
person,
>  but an object. You could, for example, base the entire novel around some
>  artifact and each chapter could describe how the artifact goes from one
>  persons possession to the next, etc. You could even have a prelude that
>  deals with the artifact in a historical sense, for example:


I've seen this used in a few braided novels of short stories, and while it's 
a great way to shift between various groups of characters, I'd really like 
the novel to have more unity than that.  But everyone is free to use their 
chapter how they want, as long as it ties into the main plot.




-Twist

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