Did you ever play the game Telephone when you were a kid? It’s sometimes called Rumor or Gossip. You sit in a circle, the bigger the better.

The ring leader will tell a “secret” to one person. That person turns to the person on their left and whispers it. Each person hears the “secret” on one side and tells it on the other until it goes all the way around the circle. The last person says out loud what they were told, then the ring leader says what everyone started with. Most of the time it isn’t the same thing, and can be quite funny.

Using the power of the Internet, let’s give it a try.

I’m going to write a paragraph. Your job is to make a change. It can be as little as one word or as big as twenty words. You can change names, plot and setting, but don’t change it so much that we can’t tell how it relates to what (Alice) started with. Post your paragraph on your blog with a link to Alice’s post. She will link back to you. Then, pick three people to whom you will “whisper” your modified version. Let them know they are up next. Link to them and to the person who passed it to you (me).

Here is my paragraph for the three people I’m going to tag:

I’m whispering to MJ, , Teresa, and Zinnia. You can still play this game even if I didn’t tag you. Anyone can play if you follow the rules.

Come back in a month and see what happened to our little rumor.

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The rules for this meme:

1. Change something in the paragraph you received; a minimum of 1 word, a maximum of 20 words.
   
2. Link to the post at http://aliceaudrey.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/alice-calling/ and leave a comment so we can keep track of what happens to the paragraph. Alice will link back to you.
   
3. Link to the person who tagged you, preferably to where ever they posted their version of the paragraph.
   
4. Tag three people you think might enjoy this game. Let them know they’ve been tagged. Link to them.
   
5. Include these rules in your post.

I’ve been feeling disconnected from my blog. All the widgets and the this and the that and the banner up top and blah. I haven’t felt like I can put up anything me-related, not writing-related, reading-related, etc., because of the whole professional writer thing, and frankly? I’m kinda tired of it. So the site change will probably stick for now, I’m happy with this relatively simple design, and I’ll put a disclaimer somewhere that if you click the “Blog” link you’re getting stuff that isn’t writing related, and woohoo, maybe I’ll be a happy blogger again.

Uh, more on that later probably. Or just more blogging in general. Later. Right now, eating.

I’ll spend (part) of mine reading smut. <3 my new Palm z22. :)