TalkTalk's success story for TreeHouse

25 September 2008

TalkTalk, the broadband and home phone company and long-time supporter of TreeHouse, has received over 3,800 submissions in just over a month for its online collaborative creative writing experiment, The Forever Story.

TalkTalk launched The Forever Story to raise awareness as well as funds for TreeHouse. For every contribution made to the story, TalkTalk will donate £1 to support our work.

TreeHouse patron Nick Hornby began the story: “For the first nineteen years of his life, Johnny Razor wasn’t Johnny Razor at all. He was Malcolm Weatherly, and he was born in Mile End Underground station on the night of 17th September 1940.” It has since received contributions from famous writers including Tom Stoppard, Richard Curtis and Robert Harris.

Anyone wishing to contribute a paragraph or more to the story can do so via the Forever Story website. An audio playback facility even allows you to hear your paragraph once it is added; and a regular podcast is also available for download to enable people to catch up on the story so far.

The Forever Story is open to contributions from everyone and TalkTalk hopes in time it will become the world’s longest ever collaborative story. Go on, give it a go!

To find about more about TreeHouse and TalkTalk's partnership see our TalkTalk page.