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Exquisite Corpse: Write a Story with Neil Gaiman on Twitter

by Jordan Yerman | October 12, 2009 at 11:03 am

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Now's your chance to write a story with Neil Gaiman, who brought us Coraline and the Sandman series. all you need is your handy Twitter account. Neil Gaiman will be starting a story on BBC Audio Books America's Twitter page on October 13 at noon EST. An "exquisite corpse" is a story or work of art created by a collective, using loose rules to come up with a narrative whole. To contribute, just drop by BCAA's page, have a read of the story so far, and chime in with a 140-character addition when the muse strikes.

It’ll be interesting to see if average Twitterzens will be able to maintain a functioning narrative in this mass game of exquisite corpse, or if it will inevitably devolve into “And then a comet hit the planet and everybody died!” or “A giant poo-monster came out of nowhere and swallowed dear Esmeralda whole,” as mine always did.

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