 Contests & Activities: March 12, 2025 Issue [#13031] |
This week: Summer Lovin' Edited by: Legerdemain  
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MARCH PROMPT
Pick anyone's name in the Bible and write a meaningful acrostic.
March 2025 Prompt: Distant Habitats
This is a writing contest to explore the most important and impactful questions relating to God, life, and the universe. People of any or no religion are invited to submit their thoughts.
MARCH Prompt: What is truth? How can the truth of a thing be explained?
In a world of innumerable rival claims, how can we distinguish between truth and lies?
 your favorite character is an Alien from another Planet
you suspect the Clone did it
Body Upgrades are routine, not the exception
Do you love writing rhyming poetry? Poetry is the music of the heart and soul.
This contest will focus solely on traditional poetry using meter and rhyme. It is through those devices that we begin to feel and hear the beat of the poetic heart.
The quote to twist is...
"___ of the world, unite!"
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This month's question: Do you have any summer goals? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!}
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (February 12, 2025)" question: Do you enjoy anti-romancing a typical romance story?
Jeffrey Meyer  : I'm a cup-half-empty kind of guy. And if the cup's half full, it's probably a rat poison milkshake.
I think anti-romantic stories during this season actually offer a welcome respite from the candy hearts and teady bears we've been drowning in since Thanksgiving. After all, as the singer said:
"Like candy, emotion: too much,
and sugar can turn to sand."
(I'm a friggin ray o' sunshine, I know!)
Lynn Nichole  : I'm all for doing something new and different with any familiar pattern, but it must be done well.
The 2019 movie, Last Christmas, starring Emilia Clark and Ben Golding, is one example of a romance with a heart-aching twist that I enjoy. I have watched this movie for two different Christmases now, and it has made me cry both times.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is also a romance with a twist I very much enjoy. Elinor and Marianne did not ultimately wind up with the men who were originally courting them. Instead, we read a saga of two sisters who approach life and romance in two very different ways and yet come to the same place of heartache. One of the things I love about this story is how Elinor and Marianne each learn and grow from their respective experiences, even growing closer together as sisters by the end of it. They each did eventually marry, but to two men who were neither of them the focal point of the story.
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet might be the most famous example of an "anti-romanced" story. As much as I really like Romeo and Juliet as a story, I do love the twist that The Lion King 2 put on it when the two lovers actually save their families from themselves and are able to be together from then on.
For me it's less about the traditional trappings of the story versus an interesting twist and more about which way the story and the characters wants/needs to go. If the story wants to be a typical love story, then let it be a very nice example of such. If the story needs to depart from expectations, then let it do so with good purpose and moxie.
One other example I just realized I forgot is actually an "anti-romance" that I enjoyed exactly for what it is.
That story is: They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera. The ending is already spoiled in the title, and it's true, but the whole point of the story is that the two characters are wrestling in real time with the question: if today was your last day, what would you do with it? These two boys meet on their last day alive and work through answering that question together, falling in love as they go. It was such a well-written and fascinating read, with wonderful character exploration and such a deep, personal theme. Definitely recommend that one to anyone looking for a quality departure from the romantic norm.
TheBusmanPoet : Don't write stories but written both romance and anti-romance in poem form.
Trebor : Hey, I got it, I'll just make something up and people will buy it!!! All kidding aside best wishes and good luck with your romantic endeavor's... My brain damage wont allow me such Tom foolery.
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