Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Autumn

SnowStars's picture
Submitted by SnowStars on August 8, 2008 - 10:47.

Aspens flushed burgundy while lilies died in droves.

imagine's picture

This is so great. Would you

Submitted by imagine on August 8, 2008 - 19:34.

This is so great. Would you mind if I tried to incorporate it into a song?

SnowStars's picture

Thank you so much! This was

Submitted by SnowStars on August 10, 2008 - 13:13.

Thank you so much!
This was one of those times when everything just suddenly came together, and it would be wonderful to see it in a song.
Go ahead!
:)SnowStars

NonSequitur's picture

Gorgeous

Submitted by NonSequitur on August 10, 2008 - 14:54.

Gorgeous.

*Burgundy.

Also, maybe you should leave out the "the" before "lilies". This sentence has such a great cadence, but the "the" takes away from that a bit.
:)

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SnowStars's picture

Fixed! Thank you, Mistress

Submitted by SnowStars on August 10, 2008 - 18:11.

Fixed!
Thank you, Mistress of All Editing!!
:)SnowStars

NonSequitur's picture

Mistress of All Editing!!

Submitted by NonSequitur on August 11, 2008 - 11:48.

Mistress of All Editing!! I love it!

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