Homework: Chain Storytelling

The main idea of this exercise is to tell a collective story by changing storytellers at intervals throughout the story. Unsurprisingly, this can be done in different ways:

• Variation #1: Each storyteller alternates between trying to end the story and trying to bring the story back from the previous persons ending
  • This plays with the idea of a "false ending" to a story. What are the parts of a story? Do stories have a defined structure: beginning, middle, end? Did this exercise violate that structure? If so, how?
• Variation #2: The characters (but not the plot) are introduced initially and each storyteller chooses one (preferably different ones). While the story is being passed between different storytellers, each storyteller in their section of the story will attempt to "aid" their chosen character, preferably at the detriment of others to make things interesting.
• We could also simplify #2 into a story with two rivaling main characters each of which is associated with only one storyteller. These storytellers would then "battle it out," while they collectively told the story.