OK, I have a quest for y'all.

I recently read a book named 'What the Wind Picked Up: Proof that a Single Idea can Launch a Thousand Stories' - it's written by the members of ChiLibris, a Christian published authors group.

Basically, 22 of them wrote short stories with the following elements in them:

• First line is "The wind was picking up."
• Last line is "So that's exactly what she did."
• Included a case of mistaken identity
• Included a pursuit at a noted landmark
• Included an unusual form of transportation

You'd think that all the stories would be the same, but they were very different, and interesting. So! My challenge to you is this:

Write a story, any length, including the same elements as this list

I'm curious to see how different our results can be. Elanhil and I, upon brainstorming, found out that with a few minor tweaks even the Cinderella story could very easily fit into this mold. So, your limits aren't as limiting as they seem

Depending on how this challenge goes, we may start threads with other lists of requirements. We'll see. In the meantime, write write write!

*goes to work on story *

eru

I think I might try this, but it will probably have to be mid-August. I'm very busy now, but I'm willing to give it a try.

Oh! These kinds of challenges are so fun! I can't do this right now, but perhaps later, or on another round.

Ooh, fun. I've done this before, just with a different list of requirements. We had very different stories. I'll have to sit down and come up with something for this...

@Leandra: Good! I'll write one too

@Philli/Elly: I wait with anticipation for when y'all participate

eru

I might try this later on.

I have a story I will be writing soon that I can fit into this... it may be a while before I can post it, though.

It'll be a while for me too, so this might be on the back burner for a while

eru