The creepy-clown phenomenon is a compelling collaborative narrative – written by both the few actual clown marauders, and a public that is both titillated by a weird and scary story, and also existentially resigned to a news cycle in which the facts seem ever more ridiculous, and nothing seems less credible than anything else.
Enter to witness non-consensual collaborative narrative.
For young people in particular, it seems, the hangover is a key part of the night's story, building a collaborative narrative of the night's events from each fragmented memory.
We have been meeting and writing together for six years, and our intention has been to explore landscapes of memory and identity through narrative and collaborative writing processes.
Yes, when amassing a group of twenty-five plus film directors on a single production the chatter tends to get loud, yet with the right organization and mindset this experiment is a very viable model and, very possibly, will be repeated and improved upon globally as the narrative of collaborative filmmaking grows to epidemic proportion.
Experimentalists such as Kate Pullinger – who alongside her straight literary novels has masterminded various experiments in narrative, including the collaborative online novel Flight Paths – are likely to remain marginal, but those margins are getting bigger.
It was the grateful emails from fans transformed by Journey's world and minimalist narrative of a collaborative hero's journey that were the most gratifying.
The chapter will provide a general background to the theory of such undertakings and also give examples of applications that are generating products in a collaborative manner, whereby the digital narratives are 'provisioned' through contributions via Web 2.0.
HEARST CASTLE: The Biography of a Country House (Abrams, $49.50) offers a lively narrative documenting the unusually collaborative relationship between Hearst and Julia Morgan, the "first woman architect of prominence in America," according to Kastner, a member of the San Simeon staff.
The original narrative study was a collaborative project involving women from a PPD peer support group, a public health agency and a school of nursing.
These narratives rely on a collaborative dedication to build a shared delusion.
