Lost in a Story: The Challenge
A Vocal + Assist Challenge
Okay folks gather round. Listen to what I'm putting down. Here's the main thing I want to say. I'm busy 24-hours a day. But I've got a challenge for you. Hopefully you can write one or two!!!
Okay, let's drop the rhymey rhymes and get down to business.
(Please read the entire instructions because cousins there's a lot of details to get right)
Vocal + Assist (V+A) on Facebook has come up with its very own writing challenge!!! Yep, we're jumping in on the latest craze of challenges.
The admin team at V+A brainstormed and it was Darnell Lee that came up with the idea.
The challenge is to write a micro-story of 150 to 300 words. The prompt/challenge theme is called "Lost in a Story."
The object is to take a well known short story, fable, fairytale, movie plot, etc and let yourself (the writer) get trapped or lost in the story. Let the events of the story play out with your own twist as if you are now written into the plot.
1. Wait!!! There's more.
- Submit the URL to your entries in a COMMENT here in this post. The reason for that is because we are doing a RAFFLE. There will be two prizes.
- The First Prize will be a $7 tip (a $5 + $2). The Second Prize will be a $3 tip (a $2 + $1).
- In order to qualify for the raffle you must subtitle the story: "The Vocal + Assist Lost in a Story Challenge". Also at the beginning of the story mention: This story is part of the Vocal + Assist on Facebook Lost in a Story Challenge. You can learn more about it here: (embed the URL to this post so others can click to this post for the official instructions). Here's the URL: https://vocal.media/fiction/lost-in-a-story-the-challenge
- For each story you enter you will get an entry into the raffle. The more you enter the more chances you get to win.
- Seeing that this one is a bit more involved and will take a bit of thought and time to create, we are making a three week deadline. All stories must be submitted by the end of the day Friday October 13th (oooh Friday the 13th and in October… ghoulish and groovy if you ask me). 👻☠️🎃
Have fun… be creative… and enter as many times as you want.
This song came to my mind when Darnell suggested the challenge topic:
Make yourself part of the story and let it really come alive!!! You really do matter!!!
With Love, RHC
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Rick Henry Christopher
Writing is a distraction for me. It takes me to places unknown that fulfill my need for intellectual stimulus, emotional release, and a soothing of the breaks and bruises of the day.
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Here is my entry (Agatha Christie!) https://vocal.media/fiction/and-then-there-were
Thought I'd give this a try! Thanks for the challenge! https://vocal.media/fiction/farm-girl
A joint entry from myself and Mother Combs https://vocal.media/fiction/placing-wagers
My entry - https://vocal.media/fiction/you-must-let-what-happens-happen Thank you for the prompt!
Here is one...another one...so..yeah...https://vocal.media/fiction/the-ballad-of-daisy-wick
Interesting stories so far... Will work on it by the end of the month... ;)
My take on the Lost in a Story challenge... It's not what you might expect... https://vocal.media/fiction/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-featuring-rick-henry-christopher
After some help from my friends, I chose microfiction as a subcategory, and Vocal published my entry. I was struck by a historical article I read about Julius Caesar, and this is my take on the prompt. https://vocal.media/fiction/et-tu-decimus
I'm Here👀 https://vocal.media/fiction/the-weekend-biji0nlw
Here is my entry. I needed a good light story after today. :) Poked the muse until he relented. https://vocal.media/fiction/two-peas-on-a-beanstalk?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=
We have another one featuring Pernoste. Green Eggs and Ham and Pernoste https://vocal.media/fiction/green-eggs-and-ham-and-pernoste
Ok, here's my first attempt: https://vocal.media/fiction/dis-grun-tled
Here's mine: https://vocal.media/fiction/shaming-self-awareness
We just wrote The Wonderful Annie of Oz for the challenge (https://vocal.media/fiction/the-wonderful-annie-of-oz)
Here is mine! Fingers crossed! https://vocal.media/fiction/pirates-of-the-caribbean-xkpp0w24
Here's my entry: https://vocal.media/fiction/the-munchkin
So...my first attempt and entry! https://vocal.media/fiction/the-groomer-of-narnia
https://vocal.media/bookclub/the-monkey-and-the-old-couple plz support and do like my stories.
I have to give this some thought to come up with a good idea. I'm a bit lost lol I have no idea where to go with this but I'm sure the inspiration bug will bite. I need to head to Facebook to read some great entries and see where my fellow creators have taken it.
I want to do it but don't know what story.
Great challenge! I will definitely enter. Just need to think what...
Awesome...So many choices...I'll be returning to within a week to drop an entry, thank you and congrats on the Top Story!
What an amazing challenge!
Excellent!!! Congratulations on Top Story!!!♥️♥️💕
Congratulations on your Top Story 🎉🎉🎉🎉👌👍This Is Awesome ✨ see you guys Soon!