Mission Im(Possible): Group Writing Project

July 17, 2009 · by Joanna Paterson · in

It’s a little while since I ran a Group Writing Project and the summer months seem like a good moment for us to test the waters of what’s possible again…

The theme, of course, is possibility.  The challenge, should you accept it, is this:

1. Break out of your current blogging comfort zone and

2. Post something that’s written in a form you haven’t used before, or that’s created using a different medium.

A new form might be an imagined tale, mythical fable, short story, poem, haiku, fairy tale, TV drama… you choose :-) It could be two lines if you always write 200, 200 if you always write two.

A different medium might be something you’ve not experimented with before, like a podcast or video, or sharing a photograph, or creating something that blends words and a photo or painting, or hand written words, street art you create, capture and post or… well the world is your oyster really.

The idea is simply to share something that you’d previously considered out of bounds.  Impossible maybe.  And bring it into the realms of what’s possible.

Surprise!

To help us learn from the exercise, there’s one extra part to the challenge.  Write a short description of  what you did to make it possible and how it felt to break past that comfort zone (scary, exciting, nerve-wracking, satisfying, compelling… whatever).

You can either make that a separate post or part of the ground-breaking work itself.  (I’m trying to go light on the rules here).

To sum it up, if you want to play:

1. Post something that’s in a different form or created with a different medium (it only needs to be different and new to you – something you’ve not done before.)

2. Share some reflections on what you learned from the experiment, of doing what you thought was impossible

3. Link back to this post and leave a comment here too, so I don’t miss your entries

4. Post your entries by Friday 21st August

5. You don’t need to have contributed before to join in; you don’t need to be a writer to join in; you don’t need to write about writing to join in; you don’t even need to be that confident to join in… you just need to join in :-)

I’ll post a round up of what proves to be possible at the end of August,  including a link back to your post.

Luther Stickell: You really think we can do this.
Ethan Hunt: We’re going to do it.

This is taking me a little out of the normal comfort zone of Group Writing Projects too, so if there’s anything you’re not sure about, please just ask.  It might be that others are wondering too, and your comment and question might help me to explain it better.

Quote from Mission Impossible, 1996

Montage and sound from the real thing (yes, there was a TV programme back in the 60s for those of you too young to remember).

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