How to read and join our serialized interactive group novel (and writing lab), The Defenestrations
Treasure Island (2018), embroidery on sackcloth by Jay Lozada. Used with permission.
Have you been following our group novel? Have you caught up? Are you confused?
Good.
The Defenestrations is a novel by different authors: Jessica, Allan, Roni, Patrick, Deo, Don, PJ, Allan A, and many others. The core group is composed of people who went through Writing Boot Camp. We post a new chapter every week, in daily installments here, on @jessicazafrascats, and on this blog’s Facebook. At the end of each chapter, we give the readers two options to choose from. The option that gets the most votes will be posted first, and the other option will be posted the week after that.
In short, the novel is proceeding forwards and sideways, resulting in not one novel but several. Here’s a helpful chart.
Got that? Here are the previous chapters.
Version A
Chapter 1 by Jessica Zafra. In which our protagonist Iñigo Villa-Real, the latest in a long line of Villa-Reals who have fallen out of windows to their death, falls out of a window in Prague Castle in the Czech Republic.
Chapter 2A by Allan Carreon. In which Iñigo mysteriously lands in Chiang Mai, but despite having survived the fall is still douchey.
Chapter 3AB by Patrick Limcaco. In which Iñigo finds himself alone, hungry, penniless, with no identity and no knowledge of Thai, in Silom, Bangkok, and has to get a job.
Chapter 4A by Patrick Limcaco. In which Iñigo becomes an inept worker in the sex trade.
Version B
Chapter 2B by Roni Matienzo. In which Iñigo has died, and in Manila his mother Teepee must deal with the funeral arrangements.
Chapter 3BA by Deo Giga. In which Iñigo’s mother Teepee surveys the detritus of her social-climbing, and is haunted by her dead son.
Chapter 3BB by Angus Miranda. In which Iñigo’s mother Teepee goes mad with grief.
Chapter 4B by Don Jaucian. In which Iñigo is a ghost..or is he?
Chapter 4C by PJ Caña. In which poor Teepee’s life may be in danger.
Chapter 5C by Lord Fernandez. In which Teepee meets a mystery man who may or may not be her dead husband.
Yes, it’s kind of a surrealist exercise, inspired by Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch. I’m the general editor and I work with each author for the next chapter so the story doesn’t get too far away from us and turn into ungovernable chaos. Our goal is governable chaos, and to have fun while writing.
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