Volunteers for Secret Round Robin experiment?

[clayangel]

There's something I want to try out on wl_fanfiction, but I'm not sure how well it would work, so I was wondering if I could get some volunteers to help try it out on my own journal first.

This is something I used to do with my brothers, and have subsequently played with Kat, Indy and Cae, and it's always fun and amusing. In person, you play by starting out the story on a lined piece of paper. You write three lines and then fold the paper so that only the last line is showing, then you pass it on to the next person, and they to the next person, etc., until it comes back to you and the cycle starts over again. We would write stories this way, usually until two sides of a paper is filled. Then, we unfold the paper and read the results. ^_^ Again, it's barely coherent, but funny as hell and a lot of fun.

So this is how it would work trying it over the internet. People would sign up to do a round robin. Anyone who signed up would either need to be able to accept PMs or would have to provide an email address. Then we'd start the round robin.

I would make a post with screened comments. The post itself would include a pairing and prompt that we could all keep in mind while writing. For instance: Greg/Jeff - First date; or something like that.

Then either I would start it off or give it to someone else to start off. That person only writes three sentences. For example: "It was a dark and stormy night. Greg had been waiting for over a quarter of an hour, and still Jeff hadn't shown. Sighing, he slid beneath the awning of the pub and helped himself to yet another cigarette from his quickly dwindling pack."

That person would leave their three sentences as a comment on the original post. Since the post has screened comments, only I would able to see them. I would take only that last sentence, aka "Sighing, he slid beneath the awning of the pub and helped himself to yet another cigarette from his quickly dwindling pack." and PM/email the next person in line with that and the URL for the original post.

Using that last line, the next person would write three more lines, continuing the story as best they could with so little information. They would then post their three lines as a comment in the original post as well, which, as I said, I would provide the URL for easy access. I would then take their last line and PM/email the next person in line with that and the URL, and so on, etc.

In this way, we'd build an amusing and barely coherent story that would make us all laugh in the end. ^_^ When the story is wrapped up, I take all the comments and post them all for everyone to see.

Volunteers would have to be able to receive and respond to the PM/email in a timely fashion (meaning you can't take days and days). It's not a big commitment, remember you're only doing three sentences at a time, so if done right, this could move pretty quickly. I think as long as I can keep up my end of the bargain, it should work, though if anyone has a better idea as to how to pull this off, I'm totally up for discussion.

Okay, now that we know what's what, anyone want to play with me? ^_^