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Announcing a Fun Alternative to the Medium Writer’s Challenge!

Welcome to the Roz Writer’s Challenge

Medium is currently holding a writing contest. We’re all supposed to publish work about four topics, and the best entries about each will win money. The topics?

Space, Work, Reentry and Death.

Where do these topics come from?

I mean, why does Medium suddenly want all of us to start writing about death?

What’s THAT all about?

“We aren’t getting enough stories about death! What can we do?? I know! Let’s have a contest to generate more death stories!”

WTF, Medium? Being a writer is challenging enough without having to write about death to win prizes. What’s next? A contest in which we’re supposed to write about sadness, stupidity, overeating and train wrecks?

I’d rather not write about death. Or, for that matter, work, space or reentry. I have nothing useful or interesting to say about those topics. So I’ve come up with an alternative, for Medium writers who don’t want to spend hours thinking about death, work, space and reentry.

I hereby announce…

(cue drum roll and crash of cymbals….)

Roz’s Alternative Medium Writing Challenge!

The four topics?

Unicycles, Karma, the Kitchen Sink and Wombats

(Extra bonus points if you can come up with one post that includes all four.)

Here’s how to works. Publish something about Unicycles, Karma, the Kitchen Sink or Wombats. Tag it #RWC (RozWritingChallenge.) Then post the link in the comments section of this essay by the August 24th deadline.

The best post in each category will win two cents!

Don’t think that’s enough of a payoff?

Let’s be realistic. The platform is already awash with death, work, space and reentry posts. Why? Because scads of Medium writers have risen to the challenge and are churning out buckets of prose about death and so on.

So how much gelt do you really think you’re likely to earn if you enter the Medium Writer’s challenge?

This cartoon by David B. Clear pretty much sums it up:

I also promise to hold the winning entries up to the TV the next time I watch Garden State and Natalie Portman appears onscreen.

Okay, everybody! Start writing!

Writing Coach and editor-for-hire Roz Warren, who writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, can help you improve and publish your work. Drop her a line at [email protected]. (That’s Ros with an “s,” not a “z.”)

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