Writing Game

[Dikiyoba]

Since many of us here are writers but too busy to participate in NaNoWriMo, here is a much shorter writing project. This will be a short story of ten sentences. Each poster will write one sentence based on the preceding sentences. The goal is to write a coherent story. Each person may only post once per story. The poster who finishes the story gets to start a new one. Go!

 

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Klulthonk the barbarian woke up to the sound of shattering glass.

Dikiyoba.

[waterplant]

On her guard in an instant her feet gripped the cold stone floor, weapon in hand and heart in her mouth she rapidly assessed the unthinkable scene revealing itself as her eyes adjusted to the pale pre-dawn light.

[Mistb0rn]

They've come for me, she thought in a panic, but I can't run any more - this is where I make my stand.

[Triumph]

I forgot to tell you about the Colt revolver.

[RCCCL]

Watching with rising dread as four figures quickly climbed through the shattered window, the glint of cold steel showing in their hands, Kulthonk planned her first strikes.

[nikki.]

Quote:

Suddenly, Klulthonk found herself sitting upright in bed, having been woken up by the sound of the shattering glass from her dream.

[Goldengirl]

Klulthonk was washing her face after this unsettling dream, pondering what it meant, when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye.

[Matanbuchus]

"Ooh! A GIANT sunflower!", she exclaimed joyously.

[Student of Trinity]

[OOC: Should someone enforce the coherence goal? Maybe not. Even in just a few lines, I've found myself recognizing sentences that, in my mind, were clearly not "what really happened". A story corrupted with noise is an interesting problem. It might make an interesting exercise in itself.

 

Could you write a longer story, in which unmarked extraneous interjections frequently appear, but the 'real' story nonetheless remains clear? Could you then play games such that the interjections gradually take on a new coherence of their own, and even displace the original story?

 

Would learn anything from this about how people recognize narrative coherence in the first place?]

[wz. As]

Disgusted with herself at her rapid change of mood from shock to fear to elation, and disappointed that she had learned nothing since yesterday about managing her emotions, she resignedly went back to bed.

[Sudanna]

The alarm interrupted her brief nap, rousing her for work. She shuffled through her morning routine, remembering to schedule an appointment with her therapist next week.

[Dikiyoba]

That's ten sentences. Nalyd, do you want to start the next round?

 

Dikiyoba.

[VCH]

Allow me to start the next story

 

Her father said the letter would save many lives, her gut told her it was a lie.

[Triumph]

Something about the sealed roll in her hands - perhaps the weight, or a roughness in the papyrus, or the crooked, hastily applied wax - something felt strangely out of place.

[keira]

Maybe it was her father's strange behavior ever since the war began, but this message could end that war.

[nikki.]

All she had to do was somehow get to the High Inquisitor before it was too late.

[Lichzard]

But the High Inquisitor wouldn't see women, at least not publicly, which was why she would have to pose as a member of his harem to sneak into the grand cathedral.

[Mistb0rn]

But how could she do such a thing when she wasn't even sure she could trust the letter's contents?

[Dikiyoba]

There was only one way to find out; she broke the wax seal and unrolled the scroll.

 

Dikiyoba.

[waterplant]

What she read shocked her - how could her father propose such a thing with so much at stake!