Story Chains

Story chains are story challenges that are written by a team of authors. The first author is given a prompt and begins the story by deciding on a title and writing the first chapter. That chapter is handed off to the second author who continues with the next chapter. The third author is given only the second chapter, and the fourth author is given only the third chapter, and so on. Each author will try to incorporate clues as to what came before.

Normally, the stories are five or six chapters long and each chapter is around 600 words in length. You can read examples of story chains in the Archives pages.

We have just completed a new story chain with two teams of writers. I will be publishing the stories one chapter at a time. If you would like to be a part of a story chain, please contact Dian Bower dianandgary@gmail.com, or Kim Burgess kimburgess@ntpl.ca

Meanwhile, if you would like a chance to see your story or your poem published here, please send to me, brendashort@writingblog.ca

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