What I'm thinking is, I write about a hundred words of fiction in the post. Commenter A does the same in the first reply, following on from what I've posted. Commenter B adds about a hundred words in the first reply to A's comment, and so forth and so on and we'll see how far the story goes. And if Commenter C doesn't like the story as already established in the first comment thread, or if she starts writing in response to A's comment and B ninjas her, she can start a second thread simply by replying with her hundred words to the comment that her words follow. (Or to the post, if her words follow the bit in the post itself.) So it's a collaborative-canon story with built-in AU potential. What do people think?
To keep straight story comments and discussion comments (I imagine we'll want discussion comments, whether to say "I liked this bit" or "let's plan ahead a little" or whatever), subject lines please: "story" in the subject if adding to the story, "discussion" if not.
And of course if you don't like my opening, in blockquotes below, you can swipe the whole upper part of the post and start your own in your own space! In fact, let's make that formal: this post and all its comments are licensed
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. (If you do not wish to license your work under those terms, please do not play.)
Here goes nothing:
Hinata ran down the path. Late for school! Late on the day of the exhibition match with White Iris School! Magdalena would never forgive her. Blue Rose School was counting on Hinata's skill with the fire-ribbons to outshine White Iris's fire mage, whatever her name was—Reshmi?—and on Hinata's cooperation with Ciara and Mei Huan and Akachi and Lani to make the Blue Rose display piece absolutely stunning. Magdalena was going to fold their arms and frown at her.
Hinata just hoped she'd have enough time to catch her breath before performing—calling fire when breathless was verging on impossible—
