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...?)
[One a too many: the brow of Coneybury Hill]
One legend of literature (there being no communion wine to hand) was deep in his thoughts; one was deep in his opiate dreams of waistcoated rabbits and inventive white knights; two more were deep in their cups; and one – the greatest legend of them all, the Master, the absolute and ultimate champion of the written word – was deep in a hole that he had dug with his own hands… when over the brow of a Coneybury Hill came a band of gypsies.
Were they arriving to trade horses with Japanese tourists to the prehistoric monument?
They were not.
Vare are shertainly not sho many mensh of larch ffffortue in the whirl, ash vare are pretty pretty pretty womansh to desherve zem.
Vare ish shafety in resherve, but no attrashun. One cannot love a resherved persian. (shied Shane Aushpen)