I've been sitting on this idea(which isn't original at all !) for a week, thinking, "Should I make this an event or not?" People have come up with something like this way before I did.We even have to write something like this in our exams in school here.
I don't know how many people will be interested in doing this though.
We'll be taking the exact same beginning of a story and make it our own, adding to it, changing it, forming a story we'd like to read ourselves.
Whoever's interested, these are the rules:
-I'll leave the starting of a short story below. You can take that and make any kind of story you want.
-You will have to keep the starting the same. The change comes in the story you tell.
-The limit on character count is the 15000 tapas allows. [I said 'character' not 'word'.]
-It will be a single chapter story.
-Publish it separately from what you're writing primarily and leave the link here.[If you want, you can take it down after the time of this event expires.]
-It doesn't matter which genre it is, as long as you write what you like. (But make it interesting. Interesting short stories feel great.)
-Those who take part in this, go check out each other's ones and leave a comment there.
-This isn't a competition and there are no rewards. It's just for the sake of us having some fun and possibly some escape from the grind of writing parts of a single(or multiple, if you're talented, unlike me) storyline(s).
-Mark your chapter with the mature sign if it includes something that might be disturbing to others.
You can make the ending as messed up as you want, even leave it on a cliffhanger if you feel like it. But make sure to address the conflict of your story. Make sure that even if the story ends, the end is not 'The End'.(If that makes sense.)
With that outta the way, here's the starting we're gonna use:
It was a quiet evening. Jacob was driving his car by the side of a lake when he heard a crash.
This thread will be open for three days from the time I open it. So, if you're up for it, why not?
I guess I'll start writing mine now.