Rock Plaza Central and Fans Collaborate on Twitter Project

With the facility of micro-blogging service Twitter at their fingertips, musicians are increasingly able to keep their fans updated on their every move. Some artists, however, seem to tweet with equal significance the news of a successful recording session and the tastiness of that Philly cheesesteak they ate when stopping through the City of Brotherly Love. If you're feeling unsatisfied by a bevy of mundane and grammatically unorthodox posts, perhaps this new Twit-lit project will better serve you: Chris Eaton, novelist and frontman of Canadian band Rock Plaza Central, will post Twitter-length stories on the band's account on each day of the group's upcoming tour.

But it gets a bit more interactive than that. (They don't call it social media for nothing, right?) People following Rock Plaza Central's Twitter are asked to reply with a story that combines their own creative work with Eaton's, using one third of his original words. The project, brainchild of arts and culture zine, Steel Bananas, will come to fruition over the course of the band's 21-day tour and will ultimately appear in the publication's upcoming anthology this fall titled, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose.

"You know, I have no idea what will happen except that I'll have fun. Twitter still isn't huge in Canada, so it's hard to say how many people will actually take part in the creation," Eaton told the National Post. "But it's something to keep my writing bug at bay since it's really difficult to work on my novel while on the road."

Eaton has two novels to his name: 2003's The Inactivist and 2005's The Grammar Architect. His band will begin touring in support of its new album, ...At The Moment Of Our Most Needing July 4 in Milwaukee.