Pigeon Park Press have set themselves a challenge: to produce a novel using ten authors over a year. Starting in May 2013 each of the ten authors will write a 1000 words on their character and each month a character will be voted off until only one is left.
This sounds like a very interesting project indeed, Big Brother meets Pulp Fiction (the cheap fiction magazines of the early 20th century not the Tarantino movie,) something that could be great fun and quite manageable, at only a 1000 words a month, the trick will be not getting voted off. So its a popularity contest for writers? Maybe not writers but definitely for writing. I imagine who ever writes the most engaging prose, with the most intriguing character, will win, although organisers have said that ‘cliff-hanger’ endings, to get readers voting for the next instalment, will not be allowed.
pigeon Park Press tested the water with this idea when they produced Full Fathom Five another collaborative novel that should be out early this year.
I think I’m going to throw my hat into the ring for this one, it sounds like fun and you never know I could be last writer standing?
Check out the Pigeon Park Press site for details and give it a go.
Here come the lobsters! 