# Write this story, one word at a time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045 "2007-02-28T17:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/1 "2007-02-28T17:29:47Z")
The one sentence at a time thread reminds me of when I participated in something similar on another message board, but just one word at a time. It was lots of fun. Note that this thread title doesn’t have an exclamation mark at the end, while the other one does. That’s probably the quickest way to distinguish between the two and remembering it will help prevent people clicking the wrong one. I want to set a few ground rules, because for this to work there has to be a degree of cooperation. The might be revised at some point, and feel free to suggest some of your own. - It’ll be in third person past tense. - Try to keep the sentences coherent. - At each new page, it would be nice if someone copied the story up to that point into one post. You don’t have to, but it would be helpful. - In addition to a word, you can add punctuation before or after a word. Go ahead and open or close quotes or add other things. Don’t end sentences in places they wouldn’t reasonably end. I also think it would be better to keep question marks and exclamation points inside of dialogue to keep the narrative itself from becoming too confusing. I’m going to begin this with more than one word in order to get this off the ground. Here goes: One day, Bob found a ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/2 "2007-02-28T18:22:06Z")
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**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/3 "2007-02-28T18:24:28Z")
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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/4 "2007-02-28T18:30:28Z")
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**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/5 "2007-02-28T18:46:05Z")
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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/6 "2007-02-28T18:46:39Z")
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**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/7 "2007-02-28T18:49:27Z")
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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/8 "2007-02-28T18:50:50Z")
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**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/9 "2007-02-28T18:57:00Z")
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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/10 "2007-02-28T19:04:22Z")
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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/11 "2007-02-28T19:07:20Z")
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**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/12 "2007-02-28T19:10:24Z")
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/13 "2007-02-28T19:11:14Z")
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**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/14 "2007-02-28T19:14:30Z")
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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/15 "2007-02-28T19:22:32Z")
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**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/16 "2007-02-28T19:28:39Z")
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**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/17 "2007-02-28T19:29:46Z")
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/18 "2007-02-28T19:31:34Z")
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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/19 "2007-02-28T19:31:37Z")
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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-this-story-one-word-at-a-time/394045/20 "2007-02-28T19:37:39Z")
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