Another Caravan Contest

We need something to do. Something stimulating that will get us thinking again and being our usual creative selves. We've been slacking in that department a lot recently. So, after thinking about what to do I realized that the last time we had some real fun around here was the Lord contest (Dorkout 07) from Dec. 07.
Rather than just have another strictly macho-fest I thought it'd be more interesting to use our brains and do something creative.
We're going to have a writer's competition. Here are the guidelines we have agreed to,

*Must be a new and original work. Cannot be something you wrote years ago and never showed anyone.
*Must be between 1,000 and 4,000 words. If you hit 4,100 you won't be disqualified, but try to keep it in the range please.
*Cannot be fan fiction of any sort. We're better than that.
*Must be a fiction piece. As interesting as some people can make hospital visits sound.....we've all heard them before.
*Contest will end 4/25 and all entries after will not be accepted.
*One entry per person.
*Winner will be picked up three judges, who will consist of whoever is more bored than we are.
*The prize the winner will get is....they will be the first to taste the new Snapple formula that the tv ads are bragging about. Or something else that the winner wants if they're not Snapple addicts like most of you are. I think it's a bit sad that's the only thing I could think up that you boys might want.

I'm hoping one of the judges we can get will be Nate's mom. She's been the editor of a city paper and has written whole novels that publishers say aren't bad, but not what they need. It'd be really exciting to have someone with that sort of experience as a judge. I don't know who else we can get. I'm looking into it.
To enter you will send me your story via email as an attachment then I'll post it on my new deviant art account. I'll post the link here and that will be that.
Look forward to reading everyone's! Good luck!

Creepy stalkers are creepy, not romantic

Last night mom took Martina for the night. Shawn and I had everyone over and Kate decided she wanted a movie. Nate was late and we figured he was home sitting in front of his laptop or talking to Snowy so Kate left him a message to come over and pick up a movie. We didn't feel like watching anything in particular so she told him to just grab something.

He came over with Twilight. (For our play by play thoughts on the movie click on our Myspace page link below to the right and then go to the blog named, "Never send a masochist to do a hedonist's job.")

The main character, Bella, is a complete moron. It becomes fairly obvious fairly quickly that Edward, the teen vampire super hunk, is not quite right. Even when she realizes he's a vampire she should still think that some of the things he does are creepy, but she doesn't.

When people are arriving to school he'll stand by his car and just stare at her. He says things like, "I feel like I have to protect you." She goes out shopping with friends and when guys start harassing her he'll suddenly show up out of nowhere and save her and then as they're driving off say, "talk to me. It'll distract me from wanting to go back and rip their heads off!" She'll wake up in the night and see him standing in her room watching her sleep. And the real sketchy one. He says, "I don't think I have the strength to stay away from you." She replies, "then don't."

This is all before it's been made clear he's a vampire. Things only get weirder after the big reveal.

I haven't read the books, maybe me, Alice, or Kate can take a page from Nate's playbook and hate ourselves enough to do that. I can only imagine how weird the books are. It's a fantasy I know, but I can't imagine what kind of damage it does to teen girls minds. Having a stalker vampire, or any boy for that matter, telling you he doesn't have the strength to stay away from you is creepy. Not romantic.

What's your story?

When I was little my mother would tell me bedtime stories. I was tucking Martina in recently when it dawned on me that it'll be time for me to carry on the bedtime story tradition sooner than I think.
I've started thinking up plots and characters and trying to maybe come up with ways to sneak morals and life lessons in.

My story would be set in Setara, a land of many kingdoms, where the peace is threatened by an evil warlock from the frozen north. The main hero would be Princess Jesara, who would travel the land on her runner dragon with her cousin Jermos as they struggled to unite the land against the common enemy. They would fight zombies, trolls, and all manners of things while meeting people that would wind up traveling with them. These people they meet and befriend may closely resemble you guys.

So what's your story?