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...?)
Vanidy wurging on a weak head, produshesh every short a mishchiff. [Again: I take no responsibility for Ms. Austen’s punctuation.]
Hoomin naysher ish sho well dishpojed towardge thoje who are in innereshting shituayshuns, that a young persian, who either marriej or diej, or declarje hershelf queen, ish shure of being kinely shpoken of.
Shellfishnesh mush alwayje be forgiven you know, becauje there ish no hope of a cure.
Aisha held it in her hands, gazing at it triumphantly, wonderingly, even adoringly; then, slowly, with great dignity and awe, she turned it upside-down and placed it on her head.
“Bow down!” she ordered in an awe-inspiring voice, addressed – one supposes – at everyone within hearing. “Yea, fall on your knees before your rightful queen!"
What looked like a branch actually had been a branch, though I’m intrigued by Ms. Fielding’s choice of adjective (“short”). It’s true that the main branch section was – indeed – short; but (excuse the repetition, but, really, what other gerund would be as descriptive here) branching out from it were six additional woody growths (smaller than trunks: larger than twigs, one of which broken halfway along its length, another with a lengthways crack) which had all, by the prehistoric application of heat, been curved upwards. The whole was, in fact, the “crown” of an ancient hatstand.