Have you and your friends ever tried to do round-robin storytelling? You gather around in a circle … or, if your friends are online, a message board maybe. Someone starts off things by tossing out the first sentence.
You start the ball rolling. Once upon a time, a woman got stranded on a desert island.
And then it’s the next person’s turn, who adds: On that island was a hat.
The next storyteller is a bit saucy and chimes in. And the hat is alive and he bleeds rainbows.
It’s a silly story. You all have a good time, especially when the story gets really out of hand. The webcomic called L.A.W.L.S. seems to practice the same storytelling ethic. It’s written by by Denis Caron (a.k.a. Joenis Norac). The acronym, incidentally, stands for “Large Air Whales Like Silence.”*
