A cooperative novel? (Writing game for any number of participants)

by Emilie van Damm
1st September 2016

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...?)

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BIG MISTAKE! The kangaroo is - of course - a sheila (bruces don't have pouches), and would, therefore, not have done Nasho (a word that I was too eager to work into the passage). Nor would her passenger have called her "he". So (edited):

A particularly large Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) – carrying a sunglasses-wearing Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons solisvitrae) in her pouch (both of them on a long-desired European six-month holiday “to take a squizz at the Pommies and Euros” – startled Jon by landing right in front of him after a six-metre bound.

“Strewth, Cobber, this is a fair dinkum op shop, and I’m as dry as a dead dingo’s donger!” exclaimed the Osphranter.

“Pay no attention to her: she’s just skulled a whole row of gooms, and it’s fried her brain; she doesn't know Christmas from Bourke Street,” explained the Lasiorhinus.

[Thanks to http://alldownunder.com/australian-slang/dictionary-drinks-2.htm]

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A particularly large Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) – carrying a sunglasses-wearing Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons solisvitrae) in its pouch (both of them on a long-desired European six-month holiday “to take a squizz at the Pommies and Euros” – startled Jon by landing right in front of him after a six-metre bound.

“Strewth, Cobber, this is a fair dinkum op shop, and I’m as dry as a dead dingo’s donger!” exclaimed the Osphranter.

“Pay no attention to him: he’s just done his Nasho, and it’s fried his brain; he doesn't know Christmas from Bourke Street,” explained the Lasiorhinus.

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[Anybody wishing to use these characters may find http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html to be useful.]

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4 LITERARY additions since I last posted. May I post now, Emilie? Please? I see that JA will be making a comeback. What kind of monster have I created?! Does garlic work against zombies? 3 sentences coming up:

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Two kilometres ahead already, Jon (remember Jon?) was taking a breather and combing the lovely, long hair on his legs. He KNEW that Aisha would soon smell him out (that awful aftershave that he'd been forced to use after his overnight stay at Luigi's) and face him down. Were red-heads ALWAYS this dangerous?!!!

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