Yesterday I wrote a story about an ongoing battle I've been having with mice in the house.
Here is the Story, "I Have To Burn Down The House", by @whatsup
I walked down the stairs and rounded the corner that leads to our kitchen and startled a mouse on the kitchen counter. Upon hearing my shrill scream the mouse was frozen in fear. . .
The story was fun to write and created some fun engagement in the comment section. @rocksg pointed out that my story might have been unfair to the mouse as his side of the story wasn't considered in the story at all.
@mikepm74 followed that up by suggesting it might be a good "writing contest", to tell the mouse's side of the story and I know having a topic to write about can often be inspiring and eliminate writer's block, so I thought.. why not?
*sidenote consider following @mikepm74 if you haven't found him yet!
Here is your mission should you choose to accept it
Read the story linked above: No vote required and write, vlog or otherwise depict the mouse's side of the story. I don't want to give further instruction. Creativity Matters.
Once the story is written make a post, and add the link in the comments of this post!
The contest will end upon payout of this post and I will need a couple of days to review the replies.
This is for fun and the grand prize winner will receive 10 SBD, my goal is just to have some fun and spread some SBD around! If the engagement is high, I will pull together a 2nd and 3rd place prize as well. Please help me promote this with a resteem!
Winners will be selected by me unless @mikepm74 would like to join me in selecting a winner. I would love that, contact me on discord if you are interested. (if you aren't following him take a look at his blog)
This should be fun! I'm looking forward to your entries!
I did it !!! @whatsup I somehow managed to finish it on time!
https://steemit.com/story/@nomadicsoul/how-i-survived-a-cheese-grater-attack-and-lived-to-talk-about-it
My entry https://steemit.com/fiction/@vanessahampton/they-don-t-know-us
And the first place winner is this entry by @vanessahampton Congrats and thank you.
What fun!!!
Here's my entry. (I love to write!)
https://steemit.com/fiction/@viking-ventures/human-problems-whatsup-writing-contest-entry
Excellent entry! Thank you for playing along.
Thank you for the excellent story! Congratulations, you received 3rd place and 5 SBD courtesy of @mikepm74
Thank you so much!
I'll be making a post about it soon!
Hello! I'm here to inform you to add your contest to the list of active contests in steemit, created by me. I hope it is not causing any problems, but if so, please let me know so I can eliminate it as soon as I can. Blessings!
Thanks for the contest.
Here is my submission for the contest
https://steemit.com/contest/@sapient1/the-other-side-of-the-mouse-story
Really nice job! Welcome to steemIt.
I sent a thank you gift for entering. Nice to see such young accounts getting in the game!
Thanks to you. I'm glad to have been encouraged by you
Here is my entry
Hope you enjoy
The Other side Of the Story- the mouse point of view. {AN EMOTIONAL STORY TOLD BY A MOUSE}
So glad that you are moving forward with this. Should be fascinating.
I am unfortunately leaving on a Business trip next Sunday, and am not sure if I will have time to give the pieces careful consideration. I do hope to read all of the entries, but don't know that I can do so in a timely enough fashion to be a judge.
I am sending back the SBD you sent me for the idea with a little something extra to add to the prize pool.
I hope to have time to write my own entry, I have some thoughts on it.... though I will exempt myself from the judging, I just wanna have fun with it!
Been awhile since I did a little creative writing, I really hope to have time to do it!!
Nice, I will add a second place and third place for the 5 sbd, thanks! Have a great trip and I can't wait to see your entry.
I would love to join the contest
Mission accomplished captain!
https://steemit.com/writing/@artgirl/i-am-a-mouse-hear-me-squeak-whatsup-writing-contest-entry
ha... Nice entry and a cute story. Good luck!
Thanks. 👍
Your story has received Honorable Mention and 1 SBD! Thank you for playing.
Thanks for making the contest as well. 👍
I shall await it patiently. 😊
I am so glad you said something, I thought I had sent it! omg. :)
Ahaha, I thought so. Good thing I checked then. 😊 Thank you very much.
Have u co sidered using steem-bounty to distribute the reward. If not would you be so kind to explain why or what we would have to do for you to consider it?
Well, I've heard of Steem-Bountys, but I haven't used it, and I am not sure how it works. (Dang, thanks for putting me on the spot.) :)
To get me to consider it, please add a link and short explanation of how it could work with this contest. Is it too late now that the post has been created?
That picture is of a gerbil, not a mouse. I got my first pair of gerbils in Jan 1974. The last group I've had...
Sadly they are all gone now.
Post pic is not a mouse? But it's... still a rat? :D
Cute pets! Hope you find some new ones?
I believe you're referring to rodents. Rodentiae are a class of mammals who chew because their teeth never stop growing. This includes mice, gerbils, rats, rabbits, etc. Aristotle started this classification system a couple of millennia ago.
Hahaha rodents then. :D
I actually wondered about that, because the ears were not right, I used the picture because he was in the right position. :)
Thank you for the information.
Hello @whatsup!
I'm leaving this link here, because it is my entry to https://steemit.com/contest/@adazone/the-other-side-of-the-story-contest-micemouse 😊 #CheckThisOut 👌👌
Nice job! I really enjoyed your story and although you didn't win, I am excited to see such a new user with skills and initiatve.
This story received 1 SBD, thank you for playing.
Thank you for this contest, it was a nice experience for me to take a part in 😍
Hello this is my entry
https://steemit.com/contest/@sandrapatricia/el-otro-lado-de-la-historia-concurso-de-escritura-usd-10-sbd
Here is my story
https://steemit.com/fiction/@cheekah/a-cry-for-help
Hello this is my ticket
https://steemit.com/contest/@yumifer/contest-entry-the-other-side-of-the-story
I am in
https://steemit.com/poetrycorner/@mira13/poetry-corner-in-contest
This Poem received .5 SBD thank you for playing!
This is my entry!
https://steemit.com/contest/@norkamoran/the-other-side-of-the-story
by @norkamoran
Entry received, :) Good Luck.
thank you very much!
Thank you for participating, I have sent you a thank you.
Thank you very much!
https://steemit.com/fiction/@jeezzle/the-other-side-of-the-story
Nice one! :) Even worked space travel into it. You are so creative!
This Story has received 2nd place and 5 SBD courtesy of @mikepm74, Thank you for participating!
My little story from the mouse point of view
Will It Be Heard?
I am so tired of all this hunting. Why people need this? What is wrong with me if I get just a little peace of their home so that I also have a shelter? I cannot harm them. And, in spite the fact that I know that they harm me, I decided to give it a try once again with the hope that we can cooexist. I am not dangerous, just curious. Some find me even cute. It would be great if this family would start seeing me in that light. This world would become much friendlier place... I send this hope to the Universe. Will it be heard?
Original text by Mirjana Mut, @mira13 - Steemit, 2018
Ok, this was more fun than I expected. Thanks!
Submitting mine here!
A Small Misunderstanding
Honorable Mention and 3 SBD Thank you for entering!
Thank you! I loved the contest :)
Nice entry and good luck!
Hi sis , this is my entry 😊
https://steemit.com/story/@ashley4u/the-untold-story-of-leo-a-small-helpless-mouse
Thank you for entering!
https://steemit.com/story/@justinashby/rodent-perspective
Thank you for entering! Your writing is fun! :) A gift sent for participating.
Nicely done. :) Good luck
I'm your Huckleberry...
;)
Watch for tails from the other side this weekend ;)
🐁 🏡🔥
Hey. Here is my entry.
https://steemit.com/funny/@jmvanbreda/a-different-point-of-view-9b68c972f25dc
Thank you for your entry! :)
I apologize in advance:
https://steemit.com/comedyopenmic/@diebitch/humans-aren-t-mice-com-round-12
Thank you for entering this was really funny!
lol, I liked it.
Here's my entry
https://steemit.com/fiction/@iamthegray/staring-at-the-face-of-death-a-mouse-tells-his-tale
Just in time, with 3 hours to payout
Another great story and an honorable mention
Thanks for this contest, it's indeed a very funny situation. Here is my entry. I hope you like it!!
Thank you very much for your entry!
My side of the story (from the mouse). I was looking for a new home, it is cold at night and I want to finf a warm place to live. I was checking out the neighborhood. I could smell the good cooking from out doors. So I just happened to see you left a small gap in one of the walls to unpack my belongings.
This was a great home to be at you can feel the warmth from a 100 feet away. I also noticed the great cooking and could easily grab a bite of a tasty morsel anytime. One day I met this fine lady or so I thought. I came out to pay her a friendly visit when she went postal. Being the clever individual, I tried everything to avoid her at first.
Than she started with the traps. I thought they were some other intruders because the place was made safe. The husband came home one day with guns, poison and more! Shocked I gave the lady a scare one day as I wondered why I made her freak out.
Finally the house was burned downed, so I found her car in the driveway and I hitch a ride out of town with the family. Can't wait to get settled in there new location!
Hahah lets get our tom and jerry game on. I like the idea, if i was the rat, what would i think lol, you have this one coming, the rat is just about to become a legend
The mouse was treated unfairly in your story indeed, I'm going to interview the mouse and get his side of the story to show the world what a tyrant you where by burning down the house.
Hiii, here is my entry
https://steemit.com/blog/@mistakili/burning-down-the-house-the-other-side
I was seriously impressed!
Thank you so much
Oh wow.. That's quiet an interesting idea, getting to hear the mouse's side of the story. lol. it will be fun.
I would love to join this fun contest! Gonna need more creativity in delivering this story to readers to be understandable. 😅
The mouse was played in your story, I'm going to interview the mouse. Any abominable person is burning your house.
resteem
Awesome! I almost never have writer's block, too much of an imagination, but prompts are always welcome they help a lot with originality. We always have a set of thoughts that we tend towards, and prompts by other people pull us out of that cycle.
I already have an outline for the story. I'll be writing it and posting it in a few hours.
Away with writers block, I was about to snap my finger and post cos my head just blank out of fictions.
I shall give this a try :)
It will be a mouse of a story I'm sure! :)
I am sure it very well might be :)
Hi whatssup. what is worse than having a mouse in your house. How about a mouse kebab.
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or having a mouse kebab in your bed.
Yes. That wouldn't be good lol.
I've started writing for this! I'm going to be traveling a lot for the next few days, so I probably won't turn it in until last minute, just know I'm working on it slowly but surely.
Hello friend @whatsup I have read your story about rats, mice are very annoying and make emotions, especially with the behavior that makes us think 1000 ways to get rid of it. but what should I do to enter this contest and what are the conditions. Thank you
Read the post.
I'm definitely writing something for this, gonna be interesting being a mouse though
Oh I like fun! Let me see if I can come up with something.
Seems like a nice idea and the other day going through the incident sure felt quite nice ;)
If I come up with any will sure make a post ;)
Really cool initiative.It's always good to encourage followers to interaction.Resteemed👍
It is so generous of you to have organised this contest. I believe it will be of help to many steemian both minnows and newbies like myself in order to make some earn some sbd without much stress. I'm putting forward my entry for the competition.
This is going to be fun.
Best regards mr whatsup ^^
I will enter the contest.
If i had any writing skill, i would definitely participate.