Let's do something together for the holidays...

[Michael Brown]

December 2010
A Warped Holiday Tale
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
5 Mulled Vine Bill Lapham Adam Fine Sandra Davies	6 MDJB Sandra Davies Cath Barton Sal Buttaci	7 Daniel Stine MDJB Bill Lapham Sissy Anderson	8 Gita Smith Cath Barton Allie	9 MDJB	10	11 Bill Lapham
12 Sandra Davies MDJB	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

It's alive!

[Sandra Davies]

I'll say OK ... BUT ... there seem to be (from a very quick perusal) a couple of potential problems

1) if the first person tags LOADS of people then no-one's left with anyone else to go to so did there ought to be a limit on tags?

2) Is there any reason anyone cannot be tagged AGAIN after an interval of, say, four or five days?

3)Are there more 'willing' participants now than there were then?

4) Can there be a, say, two day period in which to post, i.e. every ODD number day? Don't know if that'll work ...

[Sandra Davies]

I'll follow Bill ... this sounds simpler than tagging ... so far?

[Lydia]

Wonderful idea....

[Michael Brown]

Okay, I forgot that last year each person had to tag five people, but I think that was done mostly because it was set up to run across sites from the beginning.
After reading Sandra's response, I'm thinking if we do this here, we probably don't require the process of tagging at all. We could leave it open. You all check in and when you feel ready to contribute a continuation, feel free to do so. And that way you're not limited to one piece.
It went a bit rangy last time and some of the taggees ignored the request anyway, so this might work out better.

[Richard Godwin]

Nice idea Michael. How many permutations of narrative do you have in mind?

[Michael Brown]

I was just thinking of following along and jumping in once or twice. I have no preset ideas on this, although I am hoping enough characters are introduced so as to present lots of possibilities.
BTW, that Nigel Bird interview was excellent. What a great outlook he has.

[Richard Godwin]

Thanks Michael. And for suggesting this.

[Daniel]

I'd be willing to contribute to this warpedness. How would I go about it Michael?

[Michael Brown]

Read Mulled Vine's and Bill Lapham's pieces. See if they inspire you to take that particular thread further, or you may feel like introducing a new wrinkle into the tale. Post something somewhere, and come back and advise where it can be found. Your piece will be linked to in the calendar.
Make it warped, D, we're going for meta-fiction.

[Sandra Davies]

I've posted No.3 but it's probably got buried in Bad Sex

[Adam Fine]

Ah, seems I don't know how to do this. I just wrote something, but it looks like Sandra beat me to it. I titled it the same as "A Warped Holiday Tale", but it doesn't seem to appear. If someone could let me know how to participate within the calendar, I'll try to do it properly next time. Will try tagging some folk if only for a bit of feedback (after my prolonged absence).

[Adam Fine]

Actually, I'm not sure how to tag people either. Is it like general tags to a story? I don't know when I became computer illiterate...