Welcome!

While riding the bus the other day, I had a not-terribly-original idea. The not-terribly-original idea was to start up a communal writing blog, where each post would be prompted by a randomly-chosen Oblique Strategy. No real other rules (to follow the spirit of the Strategies, I suppose) -- it can be a line, a title of a piece, or, well, have nothing really to do with the strategy, outside of just, well, prompting a piece.

So, I decided to see if I could set it up here at Blogger, and, well, looks like I can! So, hooray for that! If you look over in the sidebar, there's the randomly-chosen one (the code was ganked from this site, which has 133 of them. I'm kind of looking around, to see if there are easy-to-put-in complete lists of the Strategies and put them in. (I'm torn on the idea of including the Acute Strategies as well, but perhaps I will from time to time to make it a bit more interesting/everchanging.)

So, anyway -- the rules? There aren't a whole lot, but basically, what I can think of:

1. Anyone can join, just post a comment here if you want in, or somewhere else I'll see it, and I'll add you.
   
2. Aside from housekeeping type stuff (i.e. posts like this), the only posts should be Obliquely-Prompted-Writing.
   
3. Include what your Strategy was in your post -- perhaps in the title bar/subject line, or at the bottom of the piece, or however. I'm not picky.
   
4. If you post, you'll see a "span class=fullpost" thing in your post-window. Basically, all that does is act like a cut-line. You can write the first paragraph or two up here, and then the rest of the piece between the "span" brackets. Or not, I don't care -- the option is there.

That's about it. Basically, if you join, just look at your particular strategy in the Sidebar and go from there! That's about it. As such, this'll probably end up being a rather erratic-trafficed blog; sometimes there might be long stretches with nothing, and other times, there might be loads. Who knows. The RSS feeds that Blogger is so nice to provide are great for keeping up with that. And if there are any other suggestions, feel free to make them! I'm always open.

So, uh, yeah -- thanks!