The Merry Month of May - Round Robin Challenge

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Happy May Day! Spring is in the air, and may blossom, and fields of yellow rapeseed, and the occasional whiff of newly mown grass - time for a new Dialj challenge!

I thought we might try something... well, not quite as different as it was when we did it last year, but something a bit different to... erm... anything we've done since then? A Round Robin challenge! Not that I'm trying to please almost everyone for at least some of the time or anything, but...

There've been calls for longer stories, and murmurings about the complete lack of time that most people seem to have, and so I thought maybe we could combine the two and all our efforts, and perhaps produce something like last year's Round Robin only just a tad more.

To that end - here's how to play!

1. Read the story so far... *g*

2. If no one else has claimed the next section, do so by commenting immediately under the post. You must be the first comment under the last post in order to write the next section. If you commented at the same time as someone else - sorry, it's whoever lj lists first! And if you've claimed the next section, then please write it as soon as you can - no hanging on for a week until the muse strikes, that's not fair to other people. Don't claim unless you has muse in the first place!

3. Go away and write up to 500 words in continuation of the story. It doesn't have to be that long - it can be 300 words, 100, even 50 if you've got a particularly twisty paragraph in mind, but please don't take too long to do it, if you've claimed. Remember that no one else can post until you've posted your next section.

4. Post your section in a brand new post, so that people can claim it in the first comment, and so that they can also comment to tell you how brill you are. *g*

5. Sit back and enjoy reading the next bits... If you fancy writing some more, wait until it seems as if everyone else who wants to has had a turn, and then feel free to claim another section. No reason why people can't write more than one section - but do make sure that everyone has a chance to join in if they want to.

6. And... I think that's it! *g*

The challenge will continue until the end of May - midnight 31st May 2008 in whatever time zone you happen to be in... with the usual quick trips to Pago Pago allowed as always. If we're very clever we'll either finish the story dot on time, or else have been bored with it weeks before and finished it then.

So... I've written your starter for ten - who fancies claiming and writing the next section? (Claims under the the starter post, which I'll post in a minute though, rather than here!) But hopefully people will fancy joining in, and do send anyone who might not yet know about discoveredinalj this way... *g*

And finally - credits and thanks to shooting2kill for the images I've massacred in the banner (if you've not read her stunning images posts, I'd recommend it right now!), and apologies for the somewhat less than May-like tone of the thing... A touch of h/c, anyone? Some angst-fic maybe? (Okay, it has nothing to do with story types, I just suck at image-y stuff! But... there's a round-y sort of theme in the middle... I tried! Maybe there'll be a banner challenge sometime in the future... *g*)