I already have a few steps of a steeplechase done.

Ok, for the uninitiated to the Story Workshop methodology of Columbia College Chicago:

A steeplechase is a writing activity geard towards writing forward. The writing is interrupted with shifts of form. Some examples of forms are: folktale, parody, dialog interaction, first to third person, and so on. There are about twenty that I've learned so far. Each shift takes place after three or so pages, even if it's working. The idea is to always write forward, and let the adherence to forms find parts of the story.

The steeplechase that I'm working on now, and would probably use as the starting point of the NaNo steeplechase since it already has some momentum, is a bizarre affair where my brother makes some startling revelation about an old uncle, then becomes quite famous for it, causing Indiana to seceed from the USA, but it has already jumped so far ahead that he's living in a post-apocalyptical world with strange rednecks who wear dog furs and eat creamed corn.

OK, so usually the different forms are only three or five pages long, but I might have to let myself go much longer than that if I'm feeling something. If I took the higher end, five pages per form, then I would need a total of fifty different form switches. Hmmm. I might actually be able to do that. When I first thought of it, I thought that it would be 10,000 shifts. That's what I get for blogging altered :p

Fifty different form shifts. Here are the shifts I know already:

Original POV
First-conceived POV
POV shift (1st to 3rd, etc)
Direct address
Letter form
Journal form
Story-in-a-story
Speech or lecture
Strong overall storyteller
Folktale
Model summary
Overhead conversation
Script form
Dialog interaction
Unlikely character POV
Language shift
Mode-of-reality shift
Crowd scene
Howto
Nature scene
Animal scene
Monster
Opposite
Stylistic parody
Contextual parody
Model telling

Whew! I think that's "it." Twenty-six differnt forms to choose from, so technically I only have to repeat each form once.

One question is: how important is the order of the form shifts? I think I'm going to have to get some advice on that.