I’ve reported on quite a few Twitter storytelling projects. Fourth Story Media has launched another, this one in conjunction with the SXSW Music + Film + Interactive Festival. This one has a twist I’m not sure I’ve seen in other Twitter storytelling efforts — participants vote on the best sentences to advance the story forward.
The project, which started last Friday, the 12th and plays out on The Future of Story, works like this:
- Follow us on Twitter to receive the kickoff sentence for each story (contributed by some of your favorite web storytellers)
- @ reply to @itwasadarkand with what you think happens next; your sentence will show up here
- Vote up the best sentence
- Every round, the winning sentence becomes part of the story and it’s time to write the next!
Two to three stories a day are expected to be produced.