The cats hair flattened when it saw its hero, Space Cat lope out of the space craft. Pussy had had strange dreams about Space Cat ever since she was fed odd shaped pellets as a kitten. She had tried a few, but they had made her ill, not noticing 'slug pellets' written on the box. (well, being a pussy, and female, she couldn't read).
Space Cat came sauntering over with that on your back look in his eyes. "Hi, babe." he purred,"Fancy a trip?"
"Where to, Space Cat, where to?" she mewed seductively.
"Now, that would be telling........................"
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We all have a great novel inside us, but if you're anything like me, you can't be arsed to write more than a chapter or so before giving up and pissing off down the pub. Fear not, for the solution is now at hand! In the All-New Twenty-First Century Online Collaborative Novel(tm), anyone can write one chapter of any length, then bugger off and forget all about it.
The Rules
- Prospective authors can join by emailing me, MrFarty@blueyonder.co.uk - only the crème de la crème1 will be accepted, of course.
- Each chapter should end on a cliff-hanger and
solveacknowledge the previous chapter ending. - There will no longer be a weekly vote for the style in which each chapter should be written, but here are a few examples:
- Tabloid: Cat in Mat-Sitting Shock – House Prices set to Crash
- Sci-fi: The space-cat wrapped its tentacles around the mat and snarled, “What are mew looking at?”
- Horror: With its stainless steel claws, the cat slashed John’s guts open before it lost interest and fell asleep on the mat.
- Western: A mean, old, scarred tom-cat curled up on the rush mat outside the saloon.
- Romance: “Oh, Tiddles,” exclaimed Betsy, as the pampered puss lolled on the mat, “do you think he even knows I’m alive?”
- Chaucer: Ye catte satte upon ye matte. For sooth.
- Technical Manual: Attach cat to mouse-mat using bonding resin #3b before applying sticking plasters to exposed skin.
- Agony Aunt: Er...
- Legal Document: Um...
- Manga Comic: Well...
- Fantasy: You get the idea.
2 comments:
Thank you for the suggestion/invite over at Johng's. I'm relieved to see you mean a piece rather than a chapter but having just joined Kim's story telling blog I don't want to overdo it. There are some genres I feel confident about but sci-fi has me flummoxed.
We once did this in a writer's group I belonged to and we all got really possessive about our characters and watched them jealously in other people's hands.
Great fun!
Oh! Oh! A comment! Wow!
Pat - Sci-Fi is just one of oodles of different genres we'll be using - right, guys? You can either wait for the poll to throw something up, or, like John, you can post whatever comes into your head at the time.
Wonder if my cat will survive the next 24 hours?
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