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...?)
[spying on her] Roll on the "edit" button!
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To those of you wondering how Aisha could be “soaking her cares away” in 6ºC water, we should point out that she had been born and brought up in Finland (“the land of a thousand lakes”), far north of the Arctic Circle.
For those of you NOW wondering how a person who spent her formative years abroad could possibly complain about “bloody foreigners” in Hampshire, may we sadly remind you that prejudice needs no rationality to flourish, and that residence (even birth) in foreign lands is no guarantee against xenophobia.
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Aisha was completely unaware that “the” CIA agent had circled around through the forest, and was now spying her in a very unprofessional capacity.
Edit - to shame. Obviously. Apologies for the typo. I am severely sleep deprived and typing unforgivable gibberish.