Collectively Written Christmas Meme

Remember those childhood games where one person starts a story and everyone adds another line, until every member of the circle has joined in the collective story telling? Just as technology has broadened our community, so has it broadened our circle of friends and our ablity to play collective story telling games. And what better time to play our favorite childhood games than during the holidays.

Although, Santa still has a few months before he begins his midnight toy run,  he’s already hard at work bringing smiles to the blogoshpere. Instigating the Collectively Written Christmas Meme, Santa gives us the chance to set aside your grown up worries and play.

Here are the rules, as explained by Nina Munteanu from the blog The Alien Next Door:

Each person who gets tagged adds two lines to the already existing story (remember to number them). In those added lines, one word needs to be hyperlinked to your own blog and your post should include a link to Santa’s Community Blog, the originator of the meme. Whoever reaches 21 lines, submits the story to Santa here, by commenting to that post with a link to your post. Santa will select the best, nicest, warmest, funniest collectively written Christmas stories and publish them on Santa’s Community Blog. So here is the beginning of the story:

1- The day before Christmas a young little girl
2-Was worried about Christmas in the Future.
3-So, she planted an acre of “living Christmas trees”
4. without realizing that the grumpy Alien Next Door
5. was allergic to trees and hated Christmas.
6. Eager to help, the Matriarch of the wood nymphs
7. called on the spirits of the newly planted trees

I happily extend this story telling circle to these fabulous wordsmiths:

Judy Mi Cha

Vintagefan

Persephone

Ju-well

RJWilliams

Good luck to all and to all a good story.