English teachers - what would you call this?

[streakybacon]

If you write a story where one person writes one paragraph/chapter/section then someone else takes over and writes the next one, then you change back to the original person, what would you call it?

Does this type of writing have a name?

A post-modern mess?

a game of Consequences?

Not sure but Stephen King & Peter Straub did it, I think, with The Talisman. And you can really tell who wrote what (good book though).

IT could be a multi strand narrative.

No, I'm getting confused. That would be one author, multiple narrators.

Perhaps collaborative fiction?

OK, now for a serious suggestion. We have a (not very good) book by a number of Irish writers called 'Finbar's Hotel'. The [http://www.amazon.com/Finbars-Hotel-Novel-Dermot-Bolger/dp/0156006332 review] on Amazon calls it a 'serial novel'.

I like collaborative fiction, though.

Do you mean like in "Double Act" by Jacqueline Wilson? One twin writes a bit, then the other and so on. Havebt a clue what it is called though, sorry.

I meant two writers, not one writer who writes as two characters (iykwim).

I like collaborative fiction. Think I'll use that

Thanks!

The writers in the Detection Club in the 20s who wrote a novel together called it 'a collaborative novel', so collaborative fiction has a good precedent.