The Selfish (Story) Meme
Sep. 23rd, 2008 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I want you to be thinking about important things, like how to live, and holding your government responsible, but I also to talk to you about stories.
Four years ago,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thenowhere wrote the following: "Write something for me. Just for me. Post it in your journal so everyone else can see it, too. A sentence, a paragraph. Nanofiction. Short story. A scene, dialogue, a picture described, a moment, anything. Long or short. But it's got to be just for me. Tell the world you wrote it for me, even. Mine.
"Then feel free to put this up in your own journal, and I'll reciprocate."
And that did pretty well. Quite a few people participated, and the writings were personal and good. Fall-- Autumn-- started yesterday.
Write something for me, that encompasses the mood, the emotion, the feeling of Fall. Two necessary components: Fall and Me. A feeling of me, a thought about me, a way you see me, something you want from me. "Just for me. Post it in your journal so everyone else can see it, too. A sentence, a paragraph. Nanofiction. Short story. A scene, dialogue, a picture described, a moment, anything. Long or short. But it's got to be just for me. Tell the world you wrote it for me, even. Mine.
"Then feel free to put this up in your own journal, and I'll reciprocate."
Four-year Mutations. Let's try this again, shall we?
Four years ago,
thenowhere wrote the following: "Write something for me. Just for me. Post it in your journal so everyone else can see it, too. A sentence, a paragraph. Nanofiction. Short story. A scene, dialogue, a picture described, a moment, anything. Long or short. But it's got to be just for me. Tell the world you wrote it for me, even. Mine."Then feel free to put this up in your own journal, and I'll reciprocate."
And that did pretty well. Quite a few people participated, and the writings were personal and good. Fall-- Autumn-- started yesterday.
Write something for me, that encompasses the mood, the emotion, the feeling of Fall. Two necessary components: Fall and Me. A feeling of me, a thought about me, a way you see me, something you want from me. "Just for me. Post it in your journal so everyone else can see it, too. A sentence, a paragraph. Nanofiction. Short story. A scene, dialogue, a picture described, a moment, anything. Long or short. But it's got to be just for me. Tell the world you wrote it for me, even. Mine.
"Then feel free to put this up in your own journal, and I'll reciprocate."
Four-year Mutations. Let's try this again, shall we?
