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URBAN FANTASY/ PARANORMAL ROMANCEAs I started up the path to enter location, I paused for a moment to survey the immediate surroundings. As I cautiously walked up the path, I noticed the creatures playing along the flowers. I got along well with them, as long as you verb everything they say with a grain of noun. One of the youngest, a small green haired beauty with delicate pink nouns noticed me and said, “He’s been verb(+ing) for you. You shouldn’t keep him waiting.” My brows furrowed in confusion as I replied “Question?” Instead of answering she pointed to name, lounging casually against a tree set back away from the mortal footpaths through the location- same as first location.
My breath caught in my noun while languid warmth spread through my noun. Just one look was all it ever took for him to reduce me once again to a adjective blubbering schoolgirl.
His lip curled into a smirk and his noun sparked. “It’s so adjective to see your reaction to me has not changed, even if your body has certainly verb a few more nouns.” I was powerless to move while he stalked toward with the grace of a noun.
HORROR/THRILLER/SUSPENSEAs I drew open the noun, my heart was pounding. Gaping darkness lay beyond, verb(+ing) me to enter. I adverb and silently stepped forward into the unknown. No light from the location penetrated the inky noun of the house. A noise that sounded like a noun cut the silence like a knife, causing me to break out in noun. “I’m sure that was just a rat,” I said to myself, but instantly regretted verb(+ing). As the sweat trickled down my noun, I realized I just painted a adjective red target on my location and even worse, I realized I was not alone.
My blood began to pump faster, my own heartbeat sounded like a adjective drum trying to verb my ribcage apart. I need to get out of here, I thought… exclamation! I spun around back to face the repeat 1st noun in worksheet, just to see a adjective limb outlined in the rapidly diminishing light of the closing door.
HISTORICAL FICTIONShe wiped the sweat from her noun, looking across the field. Her clothes were little more than a adjective cotton shift. Noun(s) were afforded no noun(s). As another day’s work picking noun(s) came to an end, she began her long walk back to the adjective shack she called home. She verb(ed) the one room with her sister, her brother and his wife and 2 children. Their family has lost Mama to an illness last season, event, or time of year. Exclamation I thought to myself! Pushing away the memories of Mama, I verb about my dreams…
Getting released from place and set free. Having a noun of my own and maybe, just maybe becoming a profession. Biting back adjective tears, she emptied the foolish ideas from her head. She belonged here, at (or in) location.
ROMANCE/CHICK-LITHe looked deep into her nouns. His adjective hands previous holding name so tightly, began to release. “Say the you verb me,” he asked. “You know you verb the same about me.” He sucked in a noun and waited to hear her response. Seconds ticked by with silence making him verb her feelings toward him.
Her eyes filled with noun(s). She had been trying to deny name for so long, but found she had only verb(ed) herself. All those stolen glances while at location, all those times his adjective arms had been there… with one final look at his adjective looks, and chiseled abs just visible through the adjective shirt…
She finally released her inhibitions and said, “Any Romance Title Here”
SELF HELPWhen examining one’s noun(s), it is important to take not only the adjective attributes but also the adjective ones as well. It is always best to verb everything into lists or groups to really verb your strengths and weaknesses. So pull out some noun and open your mind to everything.
If you find yourself verb(ing) up, trying to go to your happy location to put your subconscious at ease. It can be impossible to Any Self Help Title Here without being comfortable in your own noun. So now that you have found your adjective place, look deep inside yourself. Think about the noun(s) that you desire most in a noun or best friend. Do you verb these?
Remember, trying to Any Self Help Title Here will not happen overnight.
MYSTERY/CRIME STORIESThe nouns had to all add up. For name to have had dinner at location and drinks at the pub, it was nearly impossible to have performed Any Mystery Title referring to Death/Killing by the time of death established by the profession. Yet there was no one else that had the noun or desire to see different name than first dead. Either the plural profession were lying, or there was a adjective clue that I was missing.
“Lets go over the noun(s) one more time,” I said to my assistant. “The type of person was killed at (or around, or on) time of day, time of year, or event. The victim died at (or on, near, etc.) location. What are we verb(ing)?”
Why couldn’t it be adjective like our case Any Mystery Title Here was?
FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTIONThe trip was adjective at best. You would think, verb(ing) in space sounds fun and free…. Try it with Title with alien or creature race.
“Exclamation!,” my co-pilot, Name said. “ If we have to verb one more planet, or go to location one more time, or even follow Title that sounds like a rule, or manual, I am going to give in to adjective madness.
“Calm down,” I verb(ed). “It’s only Any Title with a Number until we can turn in our bounty and get our noun(s). Then we can have some adjective deserved vacation time at location.”
“You called Name- different from first, or type of person/creature to let then know we will be arriving on Time of Day, Event, Season, etc. with the bounty, right?” Four nouns worth of blank stare is all the answered my question. “Exclamation!”
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYMy childhood was exactly what you would expect for a profession growing up.
I was born in location and lived in a location. I was always considered the adjective child of the family, and gave up verb(ing) to change my assigned role.
Life was tough during time of year, event, date not just for our family but for everyone in first location used in worksheet. After growing up with noun(s) as my toys and few friends, I decided to verb whatever it took to become the adjective profession – different from first chosen. Did you know it takes Any Biography/Autobiography Title with a Number to become that? So obviously, a different noun had to be picked.
What advice would I give to noun(s)? Any Biography/Autobiography Title Here
If you have any questions, or would like to offer suggestions, please feel welcome to contact me! Happy non-reading everyone!
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This is really cool. I love Mad Libs. We sometimes do Naughty madlibs on car trips. lol
While I was building it I made sure there were titles that would work... so each one (more or less) has something out there that will fit.
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♥Shellbelle♥ wrote: "Okay, I'm going to try Easy! I think I'm going to do Romance/Chick lit and maybe Self Help (I think the titles can be hilarious with that genre!) Alana you mentioned using spoilers...do you mean "s..."I would do a spoiler for the entire worksheet- it's mainly to discourage copying. Not that I think anyone would do that, but I feel it adds a little layer of protection...
~Jennifer~ wrote: "I'm in for Easy! Horror/Thriller/Suspense
As I drew open the Heart-Shaped Box, my heart was pounding. Gaping darkness lay beyond, Strain(+ing) me to enter. I Haunted-ly and silently stepped forw..."
That's great! It's exactly what I was after! I hope you had fun doing the challenge! Did you like the worksheets? I tried oh, so hard to make each worksheet similar to the genre.
Loved it! :) I had fun looking through the different books. Found quite a few I need to re-read.
will that one be active for 2012?
I was going to re-write the worksheets... but so few have done the challenge I think I will hold the re-write off until Spring at least. I'll change the original post to reflect that...
I'm in for easy! I'll update with the worksheets later. This is a really fun idea!
Start: February 17, 2012 - March 16, 2012Level: Easy
Completed: 2/2
MYSTERY/CRIME STORIES
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ROMANCE/CHICK LIT
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Completed: 0/2
URBAN FANTASY/ PARANORMAL ROMANCE
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ROMANCE/CHICK-LIT
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Since this hasn't been done too much yet, I will leave the worksheets as is for the moment. You may repeat the challenge, but much use different 'genre worksheets' for each time you complete the challenge.
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☻This is a “Mad Libs” style non-reading challenge. You do not need to read any books to finish this challenge. Below are 8 genres (or genre groupings), each with it’s own Mad Libs worksheet to be filled out.
Example of Biography genre worksheet sample:
With my “noun” in my hands, I can verb the noun. After filling in underlined words with titles that fit, it may read: With my Bossypants in my hands, I can Eat, Pray, Love the Little House in the Big Woods.
Easy: 2 genres
Medium: 5 genres
Hard: 8 genres
☻Each genre’s worksheet must fill in underlined words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, locations, names, exclamations, etc.) with titles from that genre. As some titles have two parts, you may use only half the title to fit your purpose; example: Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World’s Worst Dog can be broken down and used as Marley & Me or Love and Life with the World’s Worst Dog. If there are words like “the, and, at” and such that would need to be left off in order for the story to make sense, this is allowed as long as the title is still recognizable.
☻As you already have the worksheet/stories to work with, the idea is to use your choices to make a funny or interesting story. Don’t just copy the choices from the challengers that posted before you, try to make your result unique. There may obviously be similar choices, but half of the fun and difficulty with this will be to see everyone’s (hopefully) hilarious results.
☻Please use “spoilers basic html” to post your final stories, in order to make it less likely that everyone will end up with a cookie-cutter results.