atch the Sixth Explained

In a departure from previous (and, indeed, successive) Batches, Batch the Sixth was intended to arrive at not a whole series of fragmentary little texts, but five longer pieces, each written by every member of the group. The goal was to go through twenty cycles, each new piece of text ("episode") picking up and continuing on from where the previous author had left off. (This is not a new method, we readily admit, but it was one which we had never tried on this scope.)

The strains of working across a continent resulted in a premature termination of the process, each author contributing one segment to each story, with the original author writing a finishing episode to his/her own creation.

This early calling a halt prompted Batch 6 and a half, to round out the material to a satisfactory length. Batch 6 and a half resulted in three hand-bound, Nepalese journals being filled with image and text, some narrative, some not. A few pages of these journals are available to give a flavour of the Batch as a whole.

A story or two from Batch the Sixth may yet arrive, but not for a substantial period of time, yet.