Collaborative Creativity

[rockinlibrarian]

I just finished editing the conversation history of our online Cthulhu campaign that we'd been running until we all got sick or wandered off to watch horses being born or whatever it was that was distracting Randy for the past few weeks. The rest of us just got sick. Anyway, it's really quite amazingly entertaining a read-- it's like a screenplay that just happens to have been written by four different people, each person writing the part of another character, except for the one person who wrote the part of an innumerable number of characters and a narrator, all spelled and punctuated atrociously, but I suppose he IS diagnosed dyslexic. Really, I don't think my husband realizes how creative he is. I don't think most people realize it, actually. But the storytelling he does when he game-masters something-- the characters and situations and intricacies he makes up and ties together-- I mean he borrows lots of things that other people make up, but from lots of different places, and ties them together into something unique and new. Gamemastering is probably his only really creative hobby. He'd be an awesome storyteller in general if he'd learn to stop going off on tangents in the middle of anecdotes. He has so many great personal stories, and SUCH an energetic delivery, he just needs to work on the structure and flow. But that doesn't seem to be a problem with gamemastering. Anyway. I have a problem with tangents as well, but I'm not actually TRYING to TELL a story here. ;) So my point was, that was entertaining and funny and WRITTEN BY US! It reminds me of this book I read a few months ago that was written in letter format by two women who each took one of the letter writers' parts. Which I guess is not a TERRIBLY unique method, but it was special in this case because they were actually writing a mystery, and the clues that one or the other would make up would end up effecting what happened to the other one-- unlike a book that is just two friends writing about their lives. That would be such a cool thing to try sometime.

I swear, today, my computer has played EVERY SONG that was on my last round of The Guess the Lyric Game (now it's "Let's Go Crazy"). I have 42 hours of music on my computer! Why is it so stuck on those thirty songs? Random shuffle, hah. The best is when it randomly shuffles to the very next song that is on the album the songs came from in the first place though. That's just creepy.

That's all. I did laundry and cleaned the oven today. Everyone cheer for me.

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*Cheers!*

[revel-starfury.livejournal.com]

Congratz!

I swept the kitchen and bathroom floors, made the bed, picked up clothes, and did the dishes! And there were gross pots and pans, too. Shiney now! *beams proudly*

Hey, we're actually playing the game again! Yay!

Re: *Cheers!*

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hope Stiny's not dead. That would make me very sad.