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October Activity Post
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scfrankles.livejournal.comWelcome to the October activity post—this month it’s story time!
Yes, for the rest of the month we will be telling a spooky story together, comment by comment.
My esteemed co-mod has furnished me with an example, to explain how all this is going to work:
Person A (the mod) starts the ball rolling: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson found a…
Person B adds a new comment: Nasty smell in the house where they believed lived their…
Person C adds their comment: Suspect. Looking in the kitchen they saw a...
So in each new comment we resolve the previous cliffhanger and leave one of our own for the next contributor. There’s no hard and fast limit for the number of words you can use but the game will probably work best if you make your addition relatively brief.
You are free to make as many contributions to the story as you like. However, once you have made a contribution, you must wait until at least two other people have had a go before adding your next comment.
Incidentally, please remember to put each new contribution as a new comment, not as a reply to the previous comment. And let’s aim for bringing the story to a close somewhere on Halloween itself! As we’re all in different time zones, perhaps by 08:00 UTC? (That is, by 8am on the 1st of November in the UK.)
And so, here is the first line of our spooky story:
It appeared Holmes and Watson's new client had a haunted…
And away we go!
As always, you needn’t take part in this activity if you don’t wish to. Once you’re a member, you can post what and when you want—as long as you keep to the 500 words or less wordcount and the ACD Holmes ‘verse. AUs, crossovers and fusions are all permitted, as long as the characters remain essentially recognisable as the original ACD versions.
Please see the profile for the full posting guidelines!
Yes, for the rest of the month we will be telling a spooky story together, comment by comment.
My esteemed co-mod has furnished me with an example, to explain how all this is going to work:
Person B adds a new comment: Nasty smell in the house where they believed lived their…
Person C adds their comment: Suspect. Looking in the kitchen they saw a...
So in each new comment we resolve the previous cliffhanger and leave one of our own for the next contributor. There’s no hard and fast limit for the number of words you can use but the game will probably work best if you make your addition relatively brief.
You are free to make as many contributions to the story as you like. However, once you have made a contribution, you must wait until at least two other people have had a go before adding your next comment.
Incidentally, please remember to put each new contribution as a new comment, not as a reply to the previous comment. And let’s aim for bringing the story to a close somewhere on Halloween itself! As we’re all in different time zones, perhaps by 08:00 UTC? (That is, by 8am on the 1st of November in the UK.)
And so, here is the first line of our spooky story:
And away we go!
As always, you needn’t take part in this activity if you don’t wish to. Once you’re a member, you can post what and when you want—as long as you keep to the 500 words or less wordcount and the ACD Holmes ‘verse. AUs, crossovers and fusions are all permitted, as long as the characters remain essentially recognisable as the original ACD versions.
Please see the profile for the full posting guidelines!
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