Here's a challenge for you. From the following line, randomly generated by Dee, produce a piece of writing. The only rule, of which I am aware - is that the given line must be the opening line of your piece. After that, anything goes: style, genre, poetry/prose, point of view. The world is your lobster, as it was once said.

And the line is

As she opened the car door she changed her mind.

Look forward to reading the results.

John

I'm in Jumbo. Expectg mine will be a poem, but I'm not certain. I'm supposed to be doing more prose, so maybe I could start here.

TC (may I call you that?)

I'm glad Dee pointed out the lack of time limit!

I'm certainly playing - I'm just not sure how long the pre-play is going to be (careful choice of words, there )

John

Well, I often find the longer it takes, the better it turns out..

Speak to you next Christmas, then!


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Oh, and sure, "tc" it is.

I've just posted my contribution to the competition. It's called Play Mates and you can find it through my profile.

Sorry tc, the whole thing came quicker than I thought it was going to!

With anticiation

John


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I think that shold be anticipation
J

God, bloody typical!........

Actually, just read it and it's great. Nice one, J!

Better make a start on mine. Wonder if I could do a haiku...

New WW user Daisy has posted a version here:
http://www.writewords.org.uk/archive/2939.asp

Whoops! Sorry Dee. Still new to this.

I have now written a story and will upload it tomorrow.

Hi Jumbo,
Have written mine but can't upload it till tomorrow because of the new 2 day law which is quite frustrating! Ne'er mind. It's called Mind Games plc - look out for it!

Elspeth

Er...what's this two day rule, Elspeth? I haven't heard anything about it.
I presume it's a restriction on uploading stuff? Where does all this get publicised, I pop in a few times each day and never seem to see anything about changes to rules, where does it get highlighted?

Look forward to reading your piece when allowed!

tc

It happened over the jollies, tc. We can only post one piece each every two days. Bums when you're feeling prolific, eh. Not that I have that problem too often.

Dee

Bums indeed. I don't get this rule, here's my take:

I presume it's to stop one person 'taking over' the Recently Posted bit. But, If no-one else is posting what does it matter if one person has 10 bits of work listed?
If others ARE posting, then work goes off there fairly quickly anyway, so there's no chance of anyone hogging all the space.

Maybe it's for other reasons, but as I didn't see the announcement, I 'm not sure.

ah well, we're only the customers after all.

(gosh, I always feel like such a rebel when I come on here. I'm normally such a wuss...must be the water, better keep the gin neat in future )

No Wild Epitaph Chases for us yet this year, Dee? You're slippin' my girl!

TC – stop adulterating your gin. It’s not healthy.

My contribution to this challenge is in the oven and cooking. Might get it out by the end of the night but not sure (where’ve I heard that before?)

As for WE chases… not an epitaph… but have you heard of the six empty graves cut into solid rock on Heysham Head? I’m working on them…

Dee
x

OK, seeing as I have to accept responsiblity for this thread... I've uploaded my contributione...

Dee


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contributione? I've gorn all Italian!

xx

EP (for short)

Yes, but where is it?

John

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Oops.

Bit premature there, boss. Just found it!!

J :)