Here's a first in the Dutch literary world: Recently, an effort was made to invite ten different writers to submit ten different chapters to the same story. They started without constraints and were told to write anything they wanted, as long as they stuck to a 1,000 word chapter. Writers followed their own ideas to make the story move forward in a creative way.

The Holland Times is behind this experiment, which is called a Flash Fiction story series and is entitled "A Bird's Eye View." To celebrate the conclusion of this exercise, The Holland Times has teamed up with The American Book Center for a special event. At the event the book will be printed on the Espresso Book Machine and the entire series will be presented in novel form.

The event takes place on Friday, December 9th at 6:30pm. Head to the American Book Center in Amsterdam, and go to the second floor (white room).