WANTED: Contest ideas!! aka "excuses to send you free b

Penelope · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject:

Thank you Ayemea - that is a Good Idea!!!

What about a piece of subjective writing on this theme and a piece of objective writing:-

That would be a really interesting exercise - don't we think?

ayemea · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:39 am Post subject:

Yeah, I think that would be pretty interesting. I like that idea. Very Happy

I really like the contests in this forum.

Penelope · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:36 am Post subject:

Chris, Chris, Chris....I have just had a great idea for a Contest!!!

What about we all write our own epitaphs.

What do you want to be inscribed on your Tombstone?

For instance:-

Omar Kaayam (whom I do commend to you Chris and Mr. P)

Had as his epitaph:-

If I this life upon a looser creed
Did loosely thread the jewel of good deed
This One thing for my antonement plead...
That one for two, I never did misread,,,

Spike Milligan had:-

See, I told you I was Ill!!!

Two young boys who died on a school outing had as their epitaph a well-known line from an old bizarre comedy series...Monty Python's Flying Circus...Google it if you haven't heard of it.

Their epitaph was:-

And now for something completely different!!!!

What would you have for your epitaph????

Penelope · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

PS - I think I deserve a book for that suggestion.

PPS - I don't want 50 Reasons!!!!

Chris OConnor · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject:

More ideas would be appreciated.

Penelope · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:14 am Post subject:

Every week our newspaper does a photography competition.

The theme is announced the previous week, some of the titles have been 'organisation'....or 'comunication' or 'opposites'......

Not always the most professional photograph wins, sometimes it can be the most original.......

GentleReader9 · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

Okay. How about if the contest were to write a fictional short story in the form of a booktalk string where all characters' resemblances to actual people living or virtual would be purely coincidental?

GentleReader9 · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject:

Here's another idea. What if the contest were to write an essay based on just one word. You would see how interesting and rich -- with etymology, history, changed connotations in social contexts of use in literature and life, change of meaning over time -- you could make it. Just one word. The person with the most exciting essay on a word would win.

GentleReader9 · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

One more and then I will stop. You could start a story with a really strange, question-begging line and give the prize to the people who could finish the story in a certain (short) number of words in the most creative ways: funniest, most dramatic, most engimatic yet saitisfying -- whatever features you liked. Example:

"The kidnapping of the school mascot had been momentarily eclipsed in the tumult surrounding Ms. Whittaker's horrifying indiscretion at the assembly, when suddenly...." Or something like that. I'm not attached to it; it's just an example.

Interbane · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

The most interesting short dream summary.

Chris OConnor · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks for these awesome suggestions!

GentleReader9 · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

Chris wrote:

Penelope · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

Now, there's an idea for a competition.

With its own built-in prize!!!

To Make Chris Laugh!!

WildCityWoman · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:46 am Post subject:

I'd be glad to create a few cryptograms for you.

But y'know I have another idea . . .

How about taking a fairly well known piece of fiction (contestant's choice) and picking an obscure character from the story - the butler, the coachman or the crossing guard outside a school.

Take that character and give him/her a real 'part' . . . actually write something.

I'd be inclined to do something with some of the War and Peace characters - the ones that just pop in there, don't even have a name. Or if they do, you forget it soon.

I often do that when I'm reading a book for discussion - I pick up on somebody in the story and write short pieces having to do with their thoughts, actions . . . then I put them up for a 'daily write' at WBBS, or Poem Train (where I've been known to write prose).

Rarely do people guess where I got the idea for the character's story.

(Unless I say so . . . )

Bananadance


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