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...?)
[Thanks for the excellent link! A mine of culture. Aside from a few jumps down the page for specific terms (using search for non-oz terms to translate), you'll notice that I'm still working my way through the 'b's.]
“The booze bus would have bloody hard yakka getting here: it’s beyond the black stump!” retorted the kangaroo, leaning forward to facilitate the egress of her stumpy-legged passenger.
“Do I understand that you would be appreciative of a beer?” asked Jon, fishing three cans of the ‘amber fluid’ out of the sack he had left lying on the ground, while the wombat delicately disappeared behind a tree to take care of business.
“You little ripper!” exclaimed the kangaroo, adding to the unseen wombat: “this bastard’s blood’s worth bottling!”
Jon, in a vain attempt to maintain some degree of reality, could only stumble: “I’m afraid that I don’t…”
“Those gooms have dried me out: got any amber fluid on you?” insisted the kangaroo.
“You just watch it or the booze bus will be along to get you to blow in the bag… and I’m getting out before you make with the technicolor yawn: I’ve got to strangle the lizard, myself,” was the wombat’s contribution to the conversation.
...and solisvitrae is probably all wrong: it's been 47 years since I did Latin. What's Latin for "sunglasses", anyone? Solisspeculi? I'll go for that if nobody can come up with a better.