One year, 365 writers, 366 illustrations and YOU – what we’re doing and what we hope to achieve

During 2012 we’re all writing a story – yes, you too. We’re asking hundreds of people to get involved, not just the 365 writers but also you the readers who can become writers too. You’ll be in great company, Stephen Fry is writing a story tweet for us along with musicians, artists, poets, writers, DJs and sportspeople and even a sporting legend or two.

In the 12 months of 2012 we’re interested in making ideas and seeing if it is possible to hatch, maintain and round off an interesting plot. It’s never been done before – you are the first people to try this. Get on the blog, on Twitter and Facebook and make ideas: discuss plot and characters, read the story,  share thoughts. Reader-writers are as important as the Tweet writers, your ideas could easily find their way in to final novel even if you don’t make a story tweet.

The daily drawings are ideas too, not finished illustrations. They’re made quite quickly, somewhere between a rough scribble and the first of the worked up drawings leading to a full blown illustration; there to keep the story moving they introduce new ideas and help to create characters visually. The daily tweet and image are a starting point not the finished thing, they are like key moments in an animation waiting to have everything in-between joined up and filled in – by you.

The 3hundredand65 book box set

We will publish your 366 tweets alongside their illustrations in a book with a commentary about the year.  Dom Conlon and I are writing a fully formed graphic novel extrapolated from the themes characters and plot ideas generated during the 366 days with fully worked up illustrative pages of sequential narrative this will be the finished 3hundredand65 graphic novel. We’re currently organising this with a printer and should be announcing a pre-ordering facility soon.

We’re going to save the site at the end of the year and keep it online for people to read in years to come.

STORY SYNOPSIS

The Department is a 13 storey building near the heart of The Universe’s Facility For Change run by The Boss who carries on his/her shoulders the duty of keeping thought free. On the eve of the year 2000 The Department became aware of portents of doom, superstition and myth breaking in to reality and forcing out hope on one of the universe’s most intellectually advanced communities, Earth. 12 years on, the Team are investigating this End of Hope phenomenon asking has someone pushed the universe’s self destruct button? The Boss wonders whether it’s the start of a struggle for hearts and minds – less destruction, more control – and wants to find who is behind the changes. But he is also wrestling with his own unreconciled childhood memories; are they a clue to who freedom’s nemesis is?

4 WAYS TO SUPPORT TEENAGE CANCER TRUST

1. Make a donation by clicking ‘DONATE’ button and using our Just Giving page

2. Buy our T shirts and Posters and pre-order a 3hundredand65 book

3. Bid for the sketchbooks*

4. Spread the word – help us to get as many followers on Twitter and Likes on Facebook

*At the end of the year the hardbound A4 sketchbooks used to create this project will be sold to the highest bidder. Bidding has started.