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June 18, 2018 5:15 PM Subscribe
Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) has used Twitter's poll feature to write three Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories — each a fairy tale, of one sort or another — as he responded in real time to readers' choices.
Titles and descriptions above were added by Pechacek only after the stories were complete.
Pechacek is not the first to use this format to tell a story, but I thought these were especially good.
*On this story, note that, due to a quirk of how Twitter handles threads, the thread appears to end at two places before the story is over. The first, at the tweet "Sorry, I had to stop and take care of some stuff and now it’s late, SO: we’ll resume tomorrow." — click the datestamp of the previous tweet in the thread (or here) to continue the story. And again at a tweet where Pechacek responds "yes" to a reader question starting "wait" — again, click the datestamp of the previous tweet (or here) to continue.
- The Well: a story of blessings and curses
- The Lady at Winter's Heart: a story of gifts
- The Last Queen of Elphame: a story of noir in the city of the fae*
Titles and descriptions above were added by Pechacek only after the stories were complete.
Pechacek is not the first to use this format to tell a story, but I thought these were especially good.
*On this story, note that, due to a quirk of how Twitter handles threads, the thread appears to end at two places before the story is over. The first, at the tweet "Sorry, I had to stop and take care of some stuff and now it’s late, SO: we’ll resume tomorrow." — click the datestamp of the previous tweet in the thread (or here) to continue the story. And again at a tweet where Pechacek responds "yes" to a reader question starting "wait" — again, click the datestamp of the previous tweet (or here) to continue.
BTW, I talked to Jared just now, and he let me know the CYOA Twitter thread for the noir story is over. He's going to complete it in a novel, though-- just not on Twitter.
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:00 PM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:00 PM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]
As the noir story ends in a cliffhanger with Titania's [REDACTED SPOILER]. More to come, apparently! Just not on Twitter.
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:49 PM on June 18, 2018
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:49 PM on June 18, 2018
What a fine example of Twitter storytelling.
posted by doctornemo at 3:49 AM on June 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by doctornemo at 3:49 AM on June 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
He's at it again. Now with dedicated thread for authorial asides.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 1:36 PM on June 22, 2018
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 1:36 PM on June 22, 2018
He's doing another one--Regency romance this time. Dancing! Parasols! Ambiguous malaise!
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:56 PM on July 2, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:56 PM on July 2, 2018 [1 favorite]
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