About

Dame Jetsam began as a way for cartoonist Dylan Meconis to shake off the pressure of an ongoing graphic novel. She decided that Twitter - with a 140 character limit on all entries, and no ability to edit - was a perfect medium for spontaneous storytelling. She created a Twitter under the name damejetsam and began improvising.

She was swiftly joined by a number of other contributors, some anonymous, some not, all of whom contribute to the growth of the story by contributing the “entries” of their various personas in something approaching realtime.

The setting, the plot, the characters, and the outcome are all being determined spontaneously. Correspondence between the authors out of character is extremely limited. Some common themes have emerged, most notably a series of character names drawn from The Tempest.

This journal aggregates the entries of these various characters into a single source, so it can be read collectively rather than followed individually via Twitter.

The mood seems to have landed somewhere between Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Lost. Call it a Victorian Gothic epistolary horror romance for the interwebs.

Meta commentary can be found in Dylan’s primary blog.