Bobert's got a good point--for those stories that need to be long. I have a number of long songs, too, but I won't sing them at the Getaway unless asked. (Even in Ireland I'd be careful about when to sing a long song.) When there are many participants there need to be limits.

However, both at Rainy Camp (Seattle's singing weekend) and at Singtime Frolics (Portland's), we have occasionally had a Long Song workshop, with, obviously, self-selected attendees.

A long story workshop might be another answer to this problem.

Cheers (and see you soon!),

David