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By popular demand, I'm issuing a new fanfiction challenge! This one's for the group story that we talked about but never got around to writing.

The rules are simple: Everyone takes turns writing a chapter, and each chapter should end with a cliffhanger. Use characters from any Dickens novel or story that you like.

As Nina has a first chapter nearly completed, I'm going to let her go ahead and post the first chapter in the comment section. After that, the first person who asks to write the next chapter will get the assignment, so make sure you don't dawdle! Nina, you may fire when ready.

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  1. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    Yep, it’s ready to go! Where do you think I should post it, though? On my website (like usual), or on my blog, or someplace else?

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  2. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    Go ahead and put it here. We need a place where everyone who’s writing a chapter can easily post. When we’re done, maybe we’ll compile it all into one big story and archive it somewhere.

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  3. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    I can make it into its own post, but everyone after that will need to post their installment in the comments. We need to have some place where people can post easily and we can more or less maintain a flow.

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  4. Christy Avatar
    Christy

    Is there a length cut-off to the comments? How much text will the comment thingie contain?

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  5. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    No, I don’t think there’s a length cut-off. We may end up with a few pages of comments, but that’s okay.

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  6. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    Maybe it would be best to post the next parts in the comments of the first part – then everyone could just scroll down. 🙂
    I’m also thinking maybe we should take a roll call of everyone thinking of participating, because we kind of need to know how many parts there will be so that the writers of the end chapters can be wrapping things up. 🙂

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  7. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    I agree about posting in the comment section.
    As for writers, we’ve got you, Christy, Marian, Medieval Clothing, and me. Anyone else out there who wants to join in? Speak up and let us know! 🙂

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  8. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    My sister Lydia’s going to do it also, and I’m going to see if Holly wants to participate (I sent her an e-mail). 🙂 So if Holly joins, that would be 7, right?

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  9. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    Oh good, I was just going to ask if your sister was in! Yes, with both of them, that would be seven.

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  10. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    Hey, I had an idea – what if we try to post a part a week (say, each Friday), almost in serial form like Dickens did? That way everyone would have a fixed time schedule to work toward. What do you think? 🙂

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  11. Gina Avatar
    Gina

    If the writers can handle it, I think that would be great. But we’ll need all the writers to let us know if they can handle it! I’d hate to be nagging at some poor writer to finish and then find out they were in the middle of exam week, or something. 🙂

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