The result certainly isn't the first collaborative fiction to appear anywhere, but the tools used might be the most in-the-now. Such things might become more of the norm, which would certainly be a good thing.
Burton asked for Tweets — any Tweets — from followers brave enough to submit their short-but-tweet prose to help tell the story of Stainboy. The result is Cadavre Exquis, or "Exquisite Corpse," part of an exhibit organized by the Toronto International Film Festival and New York's Museum of Modern Art. The title and subject matter are perhaps not all surprising, coming as they do from the mind behind The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.The online window was open from November 22 to December 6. Users could tweet as often as they liked. One tweet was selected each day to continue the story. Some tweets were sweet; others were odd; still others were unprintable. In the end, 88 tweets made up the story.
Burton started it off thus:
"Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor."The fans took it from there, collaborating on a tale of a robot, the mysterious goo, rusty corpses, and other familiar Burtonesque elements. The fans certainly got into the spirit of things (as it were.) Each day brought a new tweet, contributed usually by a new tweeter (although some writers had more than one tweet chosen for the final story).
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