Story Continuation Challenge

Mar 4, 2016 | Writing Challenges

I am considering hosting a ‘story continuation’ challenge.

Each week, there would be a one line beginning provided with an open ending. The challenge would be to continue the story by writing the subsequent line, in the comments.

The 2-line story may take whatever shape the participants (you!) choose to give it.

The challenge would remain open until the time the next week’s prompt is shared.

You would even be free to use these comments as a prompt to develop a new story of your own and publish it on your own blog. (Would request you to mention relevant credits and include ping-backs, of course.)

What do you think of this idea? Does it seem interesting to you? Will you participate in a challenge like this?

Piyusha Vir

Piyusha Vir

Piyusha Vir is a writer, artist, a CELTA-certified English Language trainer, and a Creative Writing Coach. About me

33 Comments

  1. Laura

    I’m all in!

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    • Wandering Soul

      Awesome! Please look out for the first prompt sometime next week πŸ™‚

      Reply
  2. haripriyakm

    Curious! πŸ™‚ though not confident of conyributing…

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    • Wandering Soul

      teri toh… !!!!
      πŸ˜€ Jokes apart, feel free to jump in and participate whenever you feel like. πŸ™‚

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    • Wandering Soul

      Thanks, Surbhi! Would be great fun, I can assure you. πŸ™‚

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    • Wandering Soul

      Thanks, Michelle. I shall launch the challenge soon. Appreciate your support. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  3. gloverdeb

    Yes, it is an interesting one. Together we all can build a great story with few lines. I’m in!

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    • Wandering Soul

      So true, and it would be fun to read all the different stories too. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  4. lovehappily

    It sounds interesting. I am in and curious.

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  5. Indira

    Sounds interesting.

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    • Wandering Soul

      Thanks, Indira. Shall count on you to join in the fun πŸ™‚

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      • Indira

        I’ll try dear.

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    • Wandering Soul

      Yes, and I am already trying to come up with the sentence prompts. I’m excited about this. Hope you will take part. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  6. MindandLifeMatters

    Sounds interesting. Is there a sentence limitation on the story continued in the comments?

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    • Wandering Soul

      A couple of sentences should be okay. But more than that would mean it has the potential to develop as a short story, and hence deserves longer space and better treatment as an independent post. What do you think?

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      • MindandLifeMatters

        That sounds good. Maybe you could say ‘complete the story in 3 sentences.’

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        • Wandering Soul

          That’s a great suggestion. πŸ™‚ Thanks.

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  7. oneta hayes

    I’m interested. Sure I couldn’t resist putting in my two cents in the form of a sentence.

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  8. S. A. Smith, Author

    Sounds like fun. Count me in. Question. What if you receive 25 one or two-liners for the same prompt?

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    • Wandering Soul

      Awesome! I’m planning to post the first prompt on Monday.
      That would be great! The more the merrier, as that would mean 24 different stories for each participant to read πŸ™‚ πŸ˜€

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      • S. A. Smith, Author

        Oh, I thought you were creating one story. Look forward to reading the prompt.

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    • Wandering Soul

      Awesome. I absolutely love your unusual takes on the prompts. Shall look forward to your one-line stories too.

      Reply
  9. MrMannering

    Should be good, I tried doing something similar on an old blog I had, but my readership wasn’t that high so no one got involved! It’ll be great to read people’s contributions and get everyone’s imagination going.

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    • Wandering Soul

      Thank you. You’re so right. it’s indeed interesting to see the different direction each story takes. πŸ™‚
      Hope to see you participate too πŸ™‚

      Reply

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