Daydream believer

At last, the communal story experiment or blind round robin or Clexy mad libs, whatever you want to call it is complete. Or, I should say, as complete as I could get it. There are one or two people who signed up to contribute that I was just never able to get in touch with. Sorry! Hopefully, it will work out next time.

Here is the list of participants in order of contributing to the story:
( The Writers )

If I missed anyone on the list, please let me know!

And now without further ado, here is the story:
( The Story )

And here's how I thought it could swing back to the beginning:
( The Continuation )

Anyone interested in keeping it going? Just add to it in the comments. And thanks to everyone who took part!

I am all bored and fidgety today, and that is a bad combination, my friends. So I thought of a game we could play. I've been thinking for a while now how interesting it would be to do a communal story, but one that was completely blind. You would only get to see the passage that came immediately before yours, and you'd have to write something based on that. I think it would be really revealing about fandom, about some of the underlying assumptions we make about Clark and Lex, and about storytelling, in general. Or it could just be a hoot, a Clexy sort of mad libs.

So let's give it a shot. Here's how it will work:

1. Leave me a comment with your email.
2. I will email you the preceeding passage of our communal story.
3. You write a short passage to follow it. No more than THREE SENTENCES, and you only get one turn. This thing will only work if it's a true communal effort. If you write more than three sentences, I'm only going to take the first three.
4. Email it right back to me. This is supposed to be spontaneous. So don't fret over it. Just go with your first thought. If the thing comes out completely wacky, then we'll all get a laugh!
5. If you don't have time to participate when I email you, let me know immediately. I'll put you at the end of the list and try you again later. It's important that we keep the line moving.
6. The experiment will run until we've gone through the list of everyone who has signed up, and they've either contributed or passed.
7. I'll compile the resulting story and post it to my LJ (along with the list of participants) for the amusement of all.

Sounds fun, no? And you only have to write a few sentences! It should take no more than ten minutes or so. Come on out and play! Leave me a comment with your email.

And to make it really communal, let me know how you'd like the story to start. I'll pick one (my secret!), and we'll get the story underway.

[Poll #583012]


ETA: The poll will close at 1 p.m. Eastern time. Then I'll send out the prompt to the first person on the list.

ETA 2: Sign ups to write are now closed (as of midnight Eastern time). Thanks to everyone who's playing the game!