Any bite-sized writers?

[robotech_master]

Anybody out there willing to take a swing at writing story bits in 1024 byte chunks?

Ficlets.com is a site where you write a 1024 byte (1 kilobyte) chunk of story and post it, then someone else can come along and write another K of story as a prequel or sequel to it, then someone else can write a prequel or sequel to that, or can write another prequel or sequel to the original to take the story in a different direction. Chains and branches can go on for quite a while.

The problem is, there are a number of older stories I'd like to continue, that have aged off the front page of the site so nobody goes looking for them, but it just doesn't feel right to write all the sequels myself. If I were going to do that, I'd just go somewhere like writing.com where length didn't matter.

So, would anybody like to take a whack at writing something only 1024 bytes long? :)

Comments

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I'm mildly intrigued. *grin*

I'll poke about and tell you if I do write anything. The "Almost Rapunzel" has my brain ticking away gently...

[frustratedpilot]

I tried ficletting a while ago and got irked by the restrictions. I'm used to writing longer passages when I get going. Comes from being the son of a novelist and the legacy of another.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

I think it's an interesting challenge. And it also helps work on concentrating on the essentials. If you have to cut 200 characters in order to post something, suddenly you start looking at it in a new light and seeing what's not really important to the story.

(I interviewed one of the founders of Ficlets on The Biblio File (http://terrania.us/biblio) by the way.)