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> > At any rate, your idea, ladadadada, can still be done without an adversarial conflict per se, but I think throwing a challenge to the next author would definitely be a driving force, not only for the authors but for the interest of the readers.
> > The challenge could be seeing the success of their own characters over the others, as in DotA. It could possibly be the feel of the story itself (e.g.: one person writes it to be a love story, another writes a farce, another writes a bloody tragedy, etc). It could be to incorporate an idea into the story (e.g.: "your character must eat a live chicken during a business meeting" and the next author would have to write that in somehow).
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> > I think some type of predetermined challenge would definitely make for a lot of fun. As Sam put it above "more competitive than collaborative", would surely take the forum stories to the next level.
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> > Tra "Count me in, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr ladadadada" nio
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> As the perpetitor of most of the forum stories I want to say that I think Sam is right. We should start the Electrolite thread back up. He has been put back now that Space Force is done with him and a villian had been introduced just as the thread died. One author could take Electrolites view point and the next one could be the villian.
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> Spider-I'mthinkingofchangingmyrinkhandel-Boy

How about a story in a diary/journal format about a retired school teacher named Howard who's trying to ride his scooter cross country. One person tries to write a pleasant, uncomplicated trip, and the other keeps throwing in all sorts of situations and oddities. It might start to sound like a Griswold vacation pretty quickly.
--Just an idea.

Tra "did something happen over your break that would make you want to go by 'Man' instead of 'Boy'? -wink, wink, nudge, nudge" nio