The default setting in Q&As is "Recent". However, by clicking on "Popular", I came across this (the most popular thread ever on this forum, with 88 replies):
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/192
It seems to have fizzled out some years ago, but I thought that I might revive the idea for a new generation of users on this forum.
NEW RULE: To prevent total hijacking, each entry may be a MAXIMUM of THREE (3) sentences!
Even when this thread disappears from the most recent page(s), please keep it in mind and return to it again and again. Let's see if we can write a novel-length work of beauty and originality! At least set a new record for thread length.
Obviously, styles will change. Genres may also do so. I will try my best to keep it from sliding into a Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter OR Twilight clone. (THAT's a gauntlet thrown down for some of you fanatics! This could be fun!)
p.s. If it's interesting, I'll ask others at La Gr@not@ if we can publish it. Prepare your CVs!!!
I'll begin:
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Aisha wiped the mud out of her eyes before plunging her head in the almost-freezing mountain stream.
"That Jon!" she muttered (filling her mouth with water, the rash girl), "He'll pay for this!"
Shaking her head caused myriad waterdrops to fly out from her long, red hair.
(to be continued...?)
[Oh LORD! What a time for Jane Austen to butt in and supply what only SHE can believe to be bona fide Aussie lingo! Still, celebrities must be humoured…]
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
No: who actually WAS in need of rescue was the CIA agent. Fearful of dropping his snake disguise (in case Amy Python’s interest in him transmuted from amorous to prandial), almost equally fearful of carnal miscegenation, he found himself in what was classified by the Agency as “a bit of a pickle”.
And he could hope for no help from his fellow agents, who were concentrating on trying to decipher the down-under dialogue between Prof. Wombat and Red Ada Kangaroo.
[edit: should have been "fair fellow fans"]