Spin Cycle is a piece of interactive travel fiction that is set in Latin America. Initially, it begins with the character of Robbie. Robbie arrives in Guatemala at a difficult time of his life in search of someone he met in Melbourne three months ago. From this starting point, the story will evolve in part in response to the comments and contributions of visitors to this website. As part of this story Robbie will travel throughout Latin America and experience more than his fair share of the magic, wonder and heartache of this fabulous continent.
Visitors to this site are invited to make comments and suggestions about the story in reply to this post.
People can also volunteer to enter the Spin Cycle narrative as characters or friends of characters by replying directly to the posts of characters in the Story section. Potential characters can be people who have met Robbie on his travels, have information to share about the people and events that characters write about or strangers who are some way drawn to commenting on characters’ posts. The only rules when entering the narrative are:
- you cannot enter the story as a character created by someone else (unless they have given you the permission to do so)
- contributions should not be inconsistent with what has happened previously in the story (though of course two different characters can have entirely different recollections of the same events)
- events can only occur in locations in Latin America that have posts relating to them in the Travel Guide section of Fuego y Agua. Currently, there are posts in the Travel Guide about locations in Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Brazil and Argentina. Therefore if you want to introduce a narrative strand in Managua, you’d have to also add a factual descriptive post about Nicaragua’s capital
- all contributions are subject to editorial decision by the overall story editor (that would be me - Matt Hamilton)
The story is told in the following chapters or posts:
Post 1 - Laundering Money And Soul In Guatemala
Post 2 - Flirting With Disaster (Part One)
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