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...?)
Just then, Lewis Carroll (z.), who – under the beneficent influence of opium fumes – had floated across the field from Robbie’s caravan, gave forth his two p
ennyworth only of beautiful advice.
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
Aisha was just about to stomp off, when ol’ JRR couldn’t resist a small tribute to Groucho [because of copyright laws, we’re altering the actual quote].
“Don’t leave in a huff,” he advised. “Hang about a bit longer and leave in a minute and a huff.”
“Gfptpppgzxj!” exploded Aisha. “I’ve got to find the sceptre, too???”
“A nice attempt, and some tgruly [sic] lovely fricatives,” opined JRRT, “but not strictly Welsh… unless – of course – you were speaking in a dialect that I haven’t come across.”