A publication of some sort?

Let's just forray this and let it sit, steam, sweat and stew. Absurd at first, of course, to think that our motley crew of chess players consorting in this incidental location in cyberspace, for no more cause than the correlative love of the game of chess, would engage in something as ludicris as the fancy that passed across my psyche which I now propose...

is there any chance that some sort of real world compilation could ever result from our coorespondence? If you consider the class of many of our participants, certainly we're not lacking for talent or material... hmm

brainstorming the reasons why not - well, we're certainly disparately placed across the globe, and is our connection via chess really enough to warrant the possibility of conspiring to craft some kind of communal publication?

Technology trumps most of that criticism, in as much as it is easy for me to compile the work, graphically design the layout professionally, and then all of us would have access to a single electronic file, easily printable, of the final product.

Perhaps it might be an interesting project, a worthwhile endeavour, for us all to honestly consider submitting our best pieces, work we've previously offered for critique in these very forums, for inclusion one step further, in some electronic fashion that could be conveyed on paper, printable for worldly consideration. All for fun, of course. Just to be counted amidst our peers in some wacky action, something done for the flourish of the thing (and anyone who writes should instinctually have affinity with such patently aesthetic logic).

Berift of my linguistic embellishment - here is what I'm saying; it might be cool if we, as a collective (regardless of the cause for our gathering or what have you, merely those who have work that warrants it), contributed some of our work from this period to an electronic anthology (a .doc would likely be the outcome) - complete with cursory bios and professional formatting, a fitting title and an engaged consideration... well

All I'm saying is some unique thing could be created here, and I already have persons of interest to whom I'm appealing. I think it might be neat, if done right it could be some lasting, non-electronic memoire of your participation in this circumstantial collective in the world wide web...

Something you could print out. It would have our names, the strongest work we can communally muster. I offer to put it together, find cover art, be delicate about its construction, write a tender foreword.

Perhaps I'm a madman, as usual; it's more than likely that I'm off on some psychic flying carpet, caught up in an electrical frenzy in my corpus callosum that is indicative of some palpable break from reality; nevertheless, allow me my flight of fancy tonight, and let me propose this senseless scheme - for it has no monetary benefit, it seems to do achieve nothing whatsoever

except that some of us might hold within our hands folded paper and in which boldly intersects the non-virtual (read: real) world with ink proof of your having once stepped onto the dance floor with some fellow fools who once dreamed that they were clever writers, we wonderful humans.

So yes. After all that needless graindoisity (forgive me); what I'm saying is I think that we should coordinate a word document we all can share and print out in our respective places on this planet, something respectible enough as we could put on our shelves, an artifact that would act as a testament to our participation once upon a time in a wacky writers group on a chess website once upon a time.

What do you say, my friends? I already have ideas... tell me if I ought to be institutionalized...