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Friday, February 27, 2009

Group writing project: “This is Awkward”

A couple of days ago, my brother Jerry posted a short-short story titled "Visitor in the Night" on his blog, Muddled Ramblings and Half Baked Ideas. It's a sweetly ironic little bit of fiction that ends with the line, "This is awkward."

One of the responses to that post was another nifty short-short, also with the same concluding line.

During the second half of 2008, the venerable Tillerman ran a series of group writing projects on his blog, Proper Course. He challenged his readers to write a blog post about a particular topic, and then he summarized and indexed the responses for everybody to share.

In that spirit, I have decided to start my own group writing project. Write a short-short story that ends with the line "This is awkward." Post it on your blog and then put a link to it in the comments here. Periodically, I'll index the results. You can see my entry for the project below.

7 Comments:

Blogger Tillerman said...

"This is Awkward".

Tue Mar 03, 01:54:00 PM MST  
Blogger JP said...

Nice project.... now where did I leave my thinking cap?

Wed Mar 04, 12:26:00 PM MST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jerry's "This is Awkward" so you don't have to search for it.

Fri Mar 06, 06:57:00 AM MST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jesse's "This is Awkward" in the comments of Jerry's blog

Fri Mar 06, 06:58:00 AM MST  
Blogger JP said...

This is awkward

Sun Mar 08, 07:48:00 AM MDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Carol Anne,
I thought you'd like to know that I've mentioned your gwp on Group Writing Projects:

“This is Awkward” Group Writing Project

good luck with it

Tue Mar 10, 03:44:00 AM MDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fun stuff.
enjoyed Tillerman's and Jacob's contributions.
-Jesse

Thu Mar 12, 06:33:00 AM MDT  

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