THE CONTEST
Write With Me
Welcome to our community writing initiative. This is your invitation to have some fun, and maybe win a prize. Following in the tradition of collaborative storytelling, we invite you to help weave a story alongside Deb Christensen.
Our goal is to launch this in October, and the theme will be a Thanksgiving Story.
More to come
Join the Story
Read the opening to our tale, A Thanksgiving Tragedy, below. To participate, just fill out the submission form. We will post all entries the following week and announce the winner, whose narrative will be integrated into the main story. Please ensure all content is G-rated and strictly between 2 to 4 paragraphs in length. We are excited to see where you take the plot. Best of luck writers.
Round One: A Thanksgiving Tragedy
Submissions are open for the first phase of our community story!
Dates: TBD
Rules: Write 2-5 paragraphs. Must be G-rated and community-focused.
Round One -
The smell of burnt pies filled the kitchen as smoke billowed out of the oven like a dark cloud. The piercing shriek of the smoke alarm was an added charm to the moment. Sara sighed and sank into a chair at the kitchen table.
After taking flak for bringing a store-bought pie to her family’s Thanksgiving last year, she had decided to bake some instead.
What had she been thinking? She wasn’t a cook and she hated cooking. She couldn’t even boil water.
Sara was also a very poor planner. Lost in dreams with her nose in books, she had put off this catastrophe until the last possible moment. Tomorrow was Thanksgiving, and she couldn’t bring burnt pumpkin pie… could she?
Her despair was interrupted by a sudden pounding on the front door.
Now it's your turn. Send in a couple of paragraphs on how the story continues.
Submit Your Entry
Congrats to the Round One winner!
Name:
Story Content:
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