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Now here’s something interesting in the world of interactive storytelling. Crushing It is a comedy series/soap unfolding right now, in real time, on Twitter. How’s that, you say? Series Creator Jill Golick has dreamed into reality a setting, characters, and a hijinks-fraught storyline then turned them loose on Twitter for one week only.

“Think of this as an improv performance on the virtual stage of the Internet,” they say. We’ll think of it as brilliant. Screenwriters play the wedding-stressed characters and the audience fills in the rest.
What are you waiting for? Jump in!

CRUSHING IT
February 1 to February 5th, 2010
Only on Twitter
http://twitter.com/crushingitstory/crushing-it-story/
#cistory

Screenwriter Jill Golick’s Blog: “Running with My Eyes Closed“

We couldn’t be more pleased with all our new Twitter friends. To celebrate this growing community of story enthusiasts, we will be once again giving away a freebie! Our 200th follower will receive one hour of free story consultation on the project of their choice. That will include in-depth project review, a telephone or chat conversation, and follow-up to ensure you’re on your way to where you want to be with your project.

Our goal here at THE STORY SPOT is to help us all work to create the best stories we possibly can, whether writing solo or in collaboration. We hope this gift will help you, whoever and wherever you are.

Blake over at evenlake was the winner of our 100th Twitter Friend Freebie. His free consultation seemed to have changed his entire approach to his writing! But don’t take our word for it, ask him yourself @ twitter.com/evenlake

Thanks again, everyone. It’s your continued support that makes this fun and worthwhile.
Good writing!
djw & THE STORY SPOT crew

Who knew? It’s so very exciting to have 100 story enthusiasts with us here at THE STORY SPOT via the Twitter service. We’re relatively new to *actually* using this simple yet powerful service (though we’ve been interested lurkers since Day One). It’s been brilliantly rewarding to interact with you all in this meaningful and immediate way. So thanks everyone.

This week, Blake/Evenlake, the man behind http://domesticfather.com and http://evenlake.com became the 100th person to follow THE STORY SPOT via Twitter. To celebrate this completely random yet momentous occasion, we awarded Blake with a gift of a free story consultation service. He seems happy about it all so that’s a good thing. We’re quite thrilled ourselves. Congratulations, Blake and thanks for coming along for the ride.

To the rest of you out there in Lurker Land, through the end of 2008, Twitter followers of THE STORY SPOT may purchase any one service from our menu and receive 20% off the listed price. Yep, that’s right. To get this very special offer, send a direct message via Twitter to @thestoryspot with the service you’d like to purchase. We’ll get back to you with your 007-style discount code. But you must “follow” to get the goods.

Tweet Tweet, y’all. Spread the word.