Last night, a friend invited me along to Vancouver Writes, an event put on by the Vancouver International Writers Festival, and I'm glad she did. Not only did I get to meet a few local authors, we also had a great time collarboratively making up a story and some poems on the spot. While of course no great literature was created last night, the exercises were very entertaining. Our table had eight people who banded together, along with three writers who dropped in to guide us. It was amazing to see how eight people, working individually from a few prompts, could come up with a piece of work that tied together reasonably well. The three works that were selected as the winners of the evening were intriguing--good job to the teams who created them.