Discussion → Can't seem to add a story
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Maybe I'm too new to the group, but had this story to add about the music box:
It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the many birthdays it visited--we brought it out with all the other presents, wound it up to hear the jaunty “Happy Birthday” tune tick out of the pile of presents and rub against the frosted cake. We all smiled and cheered to hear it on our special day, not ever realizing that like the spring-loaded song, life can stop suddenly.
It’s not that the life went out of my mother when dad died, but she shifted away from reminders of what used to be. She tucked many things away. Now that she has passed, it is right to have this little package of cheer used again to mark the passing of a year, an age, a time that can never be again. It needs to chime in someone’s year and all the promise it brings, and laughter, and song. In her best moments mom would have wanted it that way, and let it move on.
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Hey there Lynn. It's tricky, isn't it. Post the story first to fictionaut. And then, once it's published, you'll see a button on top of the page that says GROUP IT.
Hope that works for you.
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clear enough, thanks
Group Description
Does a fictional story add real value to an object? Significant Objects thinks so. The project was founded to explore the relationship between narrative and value, enlisting great creative writers to invent stories about meaningless flotsam purchased for a dollar two at thrift stores or yard sales. Not only do we believe a story can add value to a thingamabob, we believe it can be measured. So we sell objects + invented stories, on eBay.
The idea for this group: We'll present an object. You'll write a story (500 words or fewer) that makes it Significant. If the Fictionaut community and S.O. curators like it enough, we'll publish it on our site -- and on eBay. See SignificantObjects.com for details (plus stories we've published, and object sales prices).
CURRENT OBJECT TO WRITE ABOUT IS This egg whisk: http://www.flickr.com/photos/significantobjects/sets/72157623155978709/
Proceeds from object sales in the project’s next iteration go to nonprofit/charitable organizations. The link below will tell you more.
http://significantobjects.com/about/This is a public group.
Anyone can see it and join.