One Million Monkeys

posted 04/24/08 @ 12:04AM

I discovered a really interesting site ten days ago. It's called One Million Monkeys Typing. The name comes from the idea that if you put a million monkeys in a room with typewriters, they'll eventually pump out the work of Shakespeare. The way the site works is that someone creates the first part of a story. This becomes the trunk. People then write additions to the story, a maximum of three different branches are possible. Then each of these branches are added onto, and it can again split into three. You're able to vote on branches, and weak branches will be voted off and deleted.

Million Monkeys

I started doing a little writing on the site myself; I think it's a lot of fun. It's nice because it's the sort of thing you can spend ten minutes on here and there, which fits in well with my currently busy schedule. It actually reminded me of the One Line Stories that Willipedia used to have - those were also fun. Anyway, let me know if anyone decides to start writing on the site.

Godspeed.

#1: by Jed on 04/25/08 @ 12:36AM EST

I've signed up, but have no clue what I'm doing. I also wish they had less than 50 word tree things.
#2: by Roro on 04/26/08 @ 12:52AM EST

Jed, you don't have to fill up the entire 50 words. Plus 50 words goes by really fast. It's 2-3 sentences. Hope you do well on the site!
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