Hey everyone, sorry for the late update. Please don’t hurt me.
Today’s topic of interest is a little project called Storytime, created by two friends of the bonanziers, Cliff and Russell, both currently undergraduates at Caltech. (Cliff and I have been friends since grade school; Russell is Cliff’s roommate, whom I had the good fortune to meet last winter during a week-long jaunt to California. They are both pretty awesome dudes.)
Remember how awesome those old “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories were? Well, we at Fantastic Bonanza certainly do. Indeed, nary a week goes by without Joe commenting on how he remembers reading those labyrinthine texts in the halcyon days of his youth.* Alas, those times, when we were not self-conscious about perusing the “Teenage Literature” section at the public library, and when we still derived that strange, tingling pleasure from the novelties of ergodic literature, have passed.
Or have they?
Storytime is an attempt to salvage and recreate that little corner of our past by bringing the idea into the 21st century. If you are the sort of person who latches onto trendy catchphrases, you might describe Storytime as “Choose Your Own Adventure meets Web 2.0.” On the other hand, if you think Web 2.0 is stupid and want nothing to do with it, then you might simply describe it as “a Choose Your Own Adventure book that you get to write… and it’s ONLINE!!!”
It’s really a very simple system. There are already several dozen chapters written. Just go to the site and check it out — I guarantee that you’ll find yourself writing your own little chapter of the story in no time.
Link: [Storytime]
* You might find adjectives like labyrinthine and halcyon recrementitious; however, I don’t mind, since I don’t know what that means.
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I don’t see what’s so bad about “recrementitious.” It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
I haven’t written anything for Storytime as of yet, but the sections that I’ve read so far are quite enjoyable.
I have written in Storytime! I have written about: snakes, kitties, fire/revenge, and also other things.