# Write a Story One Letter at a Time!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-letter-at-a-time/396574>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-letter-at-a-time/396574 "2007-03-19T16:04:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-letter-at-a-time/396574/1 "2007-03-19T16:04:05Z")

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OK! I can’t stand it anymore! Maybe it’s already been done (In fact, I’m pretty sure it has) but, it’s time for:

Write a story one letter at a time!

Pretty self-explanatory-- just add another letter to the story. You can add a space if you like, so long as what preceded it is a word and (hopefully) in context (at least a little bit). If the sequence of letters laid down before you don’t make sense (e.g. “r-o-a-s-x” then you can delete and replace the last letter. Punctuation can be added by anyone whenever it would fit, but it counts as a letter.

NOTE: this is partly a satire of all the “Write a Story” threads, but maybe it’ll work.

I’ll start with a big ol’  
Y

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-letter-at-a-time/396574/2 "2007-03-19T16:12:29Z")

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Y-e

(Note that one letter posts are not allowed, so future posters might want to have the preceding letters).

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-story-one-letter-at-a-time/396574/3 "2007-03-19T16:17:11Z")

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Sorry, guys, but this is entirely too tedious and pointless. We encourage you to have fun, but a thread like this just spawns post-padding. Cafe Society is really meant for discussions of the arts (not stories written one letter or even one word at a time), and this thread wouldn’t even survive in MPSIMS. So, closed it is, I’m afraid.