I'm not sure about taking a character each because then the plot might go wonky?

See, this would be my problem. I always need to be *going* somewhere when I'm writing, and if I don't feel I'm driving at a point or in a plot I'd have lots of aimless stuff that wouldn't be interesting in there.

Which is why, if I did your method, I'd be so much better finishing the second half of the fic than writing the first half. If I wrote the first half I'd have an end in sight, or at least a vague *feeling* of what would be right for the ending, and I'd have trouble handing it over to someone who might not end it with my view of things.

Oy. Try doing that with the virtual_ford story.

I haven't read that! Looks so interesting!