“It’s my turn already?” Part 2

There was a time when the both of us wrote separately. True story. To this day we still have no idea what we were thinking. Neither of us was able to write more than a hundred pages into any one of our ideas. (We write epic Fantasy, and ninety-four pages just ain’t gonna cut it.) It wasn’t until the second year of our relationship that we decided to combine our efforts. Best decision ever.

Stef was away at college, and we constantly emailed each other. One day my beautiful wife came up with the idea of writing a Round-Robin story for fun. She wrote a single page of Fantasy Fiction off the top of her head and emailed it back to me to continue as I deemed necessary. There were no rules, no direction, just plain old creativity bursting at the seams. Sounds like a writer’s dream. Actually it was complete chaos. I know this because I tend to cause havoc whenever I can. I suppose I’ve watched too many horror films growing up.

As I said, there were no rules for this little game we were playing, but somewhere between me inexplicably changing the main character’s name and the absolute lack of direction, we knew deep down that we had something. So what did we do? We stopped the Round-Robin writing session for a year and returned to our struggling ways.

Bet you didn’t see that coming!

-Matt