Writing Challenge #1 - Assorted Dialogue

 

Hi folks

Thanks for signing up for the November Playwriting Challenge with Threshold Theater.

If you’re curious as to what the end result of last year’s challenge (our first) looked like, here’s an overview

We actually decided to give everyone a head-start on the first challenge just to get things rolling, so read on, and you can begin writing as soon as you like...

You have today and tomorrow to play around - this is November First’s challenge, showing up a little early, but still not due until noon Central Time on November 2nd.

So, let’s  dive in, shall we?


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Challenge #1 - Assorted Dialogue

Due: Wednesday, November 2nd, 12pm noon Central Time
(1pm Eastern Time, 11am Mountain Time, 10am Western Time for the US Time Zones)


I  always like to start with something dialogue-related, just to loosen things up, get the writing muscles working, but not be too proscriptive.

So here’s four random bits of dialogue:


“Don’t ever say that name again.”


“I’m bleeding, you say?  Gee, I hadn’t noticed.”


“Am I… your lock screen?”
“You weren’t supposed to see that.”


“I may or may not have summoned a demon, but don’t worry, he’s friendly.”



Take any of these lines and write something that includes it.  

If you’re feeling ambitious, use more than one bit of dialogue.

If you’re feeling ridiculous, use all four somehow.  (No, they don’t need to be in order, give yourself a break :)


These are all courtesy of the Instagram account SophieMPoraykoWrites, one of many, many writing-related accounts on the platform.  Most are focused on prose writing, but hey, characters are characters, plot is plot, and dialogue is dialogue, so there’s a lot of useful crossover encouragement and tips.  Once you get the algorithm going, it’ll offer up all kinds of fun things.


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If you’re not interested in this prompt, you can try 2021’s challenge #1:

I Love You, I Hate You, I Love You

Or, you know, just ignore the prompts altogether and write whatever you want - as long as you’re writing and turning it in by the deadline, that’s all that matters for the challenge :)


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And because we call can get in our own way so easily, here’s some words of reassurance on the basics of this month:

Friendly Reminders - Answers To Common Questions:
(Follow the links to read me expounding on these items :)

Don’t Stress About Writing A Full Play

Don’t Stress About Format

Don’t Stress About Sticking To The Writing Prompt

No.  Really.  I Mean It.  Don’t Stress About Sticking To The Writing Prompt

Don’t Stress About Finishing An Idea (You Can Add Later)

Don’t Stress About Thanksgiving

Don’t Stress About “Succeeding” or “Failing”

Don’t Forget To Vote: Tuesday, November 8th (or If You Can, By All Means Vote Early)



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How to submit your work for Challenge #1

You have options.  They are:

Save your script as a PDF or Word Doc and send as an attachment to an email sent to ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com

OR

Copy and paste your script in the body of an email and send it to ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com

OR

Post your script online (as a Google doc, or in a blog post, on your own personal website, etc.) - email a link to this script to ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com
(If you’re going to Google doc route, just make sure to have the document public, or give permissions to our email address to open it)

When emailing us, make the subject line of your email - Challenge #1
(That just helps us sort through the email more quickly)
(Or, you know, just reply to this email if you want :)

OR

Post the link for the online document option above in the comments section below on this very blog post for this very challenge on our writing challenge blog

Again, this is: Due: Wednesday, November 2nd, 12pm noon Central Time
(1pm Eastern Time, 11am Mountain Time, 10am Western Time for the US Time Zones)


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And, just to reassure you, no, we are not going to be sticklers about you following these directions down to the minutest detail - the important thing is that you write, and then that you share it with us, so we can keep track of who’s writing every day.

We will be VERY understanding about technical difficulties and how they can screw up making the deadline on the first few days.  No need to fret about anything except the writing (and hopefully that’s not something causing you to fret too much either :)

Also, no, there is no penalty for finishing and submitting early - but it also isn’t a race, so give yourself all the time up til 12pm noon Central Time on Wednesday to write if you need it.  When you’re done, you’re done.

Again, remember, it doesn’t need to be great, it doesn’t even need to be responding to this prompt (the prompt is just there so you’re not staring at a blank screen to start with no idea what to write about :)

Doesn't even need to be complete - you could have the beginning or the middle or the end of an idea, maybe two out of three but not all, that's still fine. This is all about getting things started, you can write more later.

You have 29 more days to build on whatever you come up with today, if you want.

Just get anything on the page, even if won't make sense to anyone else, as long as it make sense to you.

It just needs to be something.


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And that something can be:



Lights up.

Charlie sees Nick’s cell phone.

CHARLIE
Am I… your lock screen?

NICK
You weren’t supposed to see that.

They look at one another.  The music swells.

Lights down.

The End



That’s always your escape hatch, every day.

That’s your base line.

Build on it.

Have fun.

Don’t stress.

Make an impulsive decision and run with it.

Breathe.

You’ve got the day (almost two days this time).

Just write.

Matthew A. Everett
Literary Director
Threshold Theater
(he/him/his)

Coming Up:
Threshold Theater’s New Play Reading Series
A reading of “Leviathan” by Bethany Dickens Assaf
Saturday, November 19, 2022 - 7pm
The Black Hart of Saint Paul - 1415 University Avenue West in St. Paul

Our video recording of our third live play reading in the New Play Reading series, Sam Walsh's "The Visible," is up on our YouTube channel (available to stream through the end of November) -

Support Threshold Theater on Give to the Max Day, November 17th
(Or feel free to give early, any time between November 1st through 16th)
Here's the link: https://www.givemn.org/story/Kssucf



"Write. Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say."
- James Baldwin

 

 

Don’t Stress About “Succeeding” or “Failing”

We had a writer withdraw from the challenge three weeks in last year, with only a week left, which always surprises me.  Their email said, in part:

“I can't keep up trying to write a full length play with a daily prompt. Guess I am out!”

And I’m not going to argue with someone who doesn’t feel like they want to do the challenge anymore.  It’s up to them.

But as one of my teachers used to say, “I don’t think you understood the assignment.”

I kept saying variations on a theme last year to reassure the writers that there’s basically no wrong way to do the challenge but maybe here’s another way of saying it:

Don’t make this harder on yourself than it is.

Don’t make this any more complicated than it is.

All you have to do is write,

something,

each day of the month,

and then submit it by 12 noon Central Time the next day.

That’s it.

What you’re writing can be completely unconnected from what you wrote the day before.

What you’re writing can be completely divorced from the writing prompt for the day.

You don’t have to write a full script.  

You don’t have to incorporate the challenge.

All you have to do is write.

(Doesn’t even need to be good writing.  That’s what rewrites are for.)

And if you just aren’t feeling it on a particularly day, and the inspiration well has run dry for a moment, or time just isn’t on your side and you can’t get something written - you have an escape hatch, a tiny little script at the end of each post and email I put out - or, as some have amusingly done, you can create a mini-play of your own to fulfill the same purpose.

And then just turn around and write something the next day.

Now, if that person who withdrew really couldn’t find the time to do any of that in a day, that’s fine.  Life intervenes, I get it.

But we’re not trying to break anyone here.  

The November playwriting challenge isn’t a series of trick questions.

We’re just trying to encourage you to prioritize your writing, just a little, every day, for a month.

That’s it.

There isn’t a way to fail at this.

If you don’t write one day, that’s OK.  Just write the next day.

No judgment.

Go easy on yourself.  Have fun!

 

 

Don’t Stress About Thanksgiving

This question always comes up eventually, so… about Thanksgiving:

Yes, there will still be a writing prompt.

However, the plan that week is to send you several writing prompts in advance for the holiday weekend, so you can write ahead and bank them if you want.

And, as always, there will be an escape hatch prompt that you can copy, paste and embellish as your submission for the day, such as…

“Lights up

A turkey runs for its life across the stage.

Lights down”

So don’t stress the holiday.  There are ways around it.

 

 

Don’t Stress About Finishing An Idea (You Can Add Later)

We had yet another useful question last year so I thought I’d share the answer to that one as well.

A writer ran into the issue of having more to write but running out of time because of the deadline at noon and needing to stop and just post what they had.

They were wondering if it was OK to add to posted scripts after the fact.

The answer is, of course, yes.

Submit something by the deadline but if you want to add more later to the same idea still in progress you certainly can.

(To clarify, this doesn’t mean you can keep going back and revising the same five or six pages or lines day after day.  That’s re-writing.  The challenge is about creating significant new material each day - writing new words, new lines, new pages.)

Now, if you also want to get credit for that new material, to fulfill the writing quotient for the day whether it addresses the new day’s challenge or not, you can also do that, but you should submit it as a whole new submission for a day, not just refer us back to an older post.

Many writers did a version of this already, continuing to add on to a script that they’d worked on in previous days.  And they either just sent the new stuff, or sent the whole growing script with a marker of where the new material for the day began.

I did this a lot during the writing challenges that were run by Red Theater in Chicago.  

An example:

If you scroll to the bottom of this post (apologies for the sex scene at the beginning, shield your eyes), you’ll see a note, (to be continued)…

Then, several days later, after writing other scenes, I returned to continue this one, starting by tacking on the last few lines of the previous post and then continuing on from there with more scene…

Any variation on a theme like this is fine, just keep pushing forward and creating new stuff.  If it’s building on previously submitted stuff, that’s fine, just indicate where the old ends and the new begins (again, many writers did this instinctually without any prompting.  For new folks contemplating such a strategy, yes, by all means, do.)

No. Really. I Mean It. Don’t Stress About Sticking To The Writing Prompt

This was a hang up for some folks last year so I’ll say it again:

You can ignore the prompts.  

You can do part and not all of a prompt if you want.

Whatever you write is fine, as long as you’re writing.

About halfway through the month of November last year, a writer shared that they somehow got the idea in their head that the writing prompts I was laying out were intended as a map to create a play - that one prompt would follow the next in such a way that if the writer followed all the prompts day by day they would come out on the other end of November with a play created in chronological order.

Wow.  Uh… no.  I’m not that clever.

This is a random series of prompts.

They are unrelated to one another - other than that they’re part of this overall month-long writing challenge exercise.  

No one is expected to take the challenge from day 1, and then for day 2 take that day’s challenge and write something that builds on everything you wrote the day before.  

This isn’t a puzzle that will magically lead you to a complete play at the end based on the puzzle pieces of each day’s writing prompt.  Would that it were.  

If I had a secret blueprint which I could build all my plays from which worked with all ideas at all times, I would have written a lot more plays by now.  

If someone actually does manage to create a single play tying all of these challenges together in order, I will either be very impressed, or concerned for your mental health, perhaps both.  

To be clear, I only have the prompts very roughly mapped out as of this evening through the first few weeks of November.  Even I don’t know the end yet.  

There is no overall narrative plan to these, they’re just a bunch of exercises.

Don’t contort your writing to fit the challenge.  

Just write.

Several writers last year used the daily deadline as a drive to push through creating a first draft of a new play they’re working on that had nothing to do with any of the prompts.

That’s great.

Some people got an idea with one challenge and decided to run with it, ignoring the other writing challenges each day in order to keep developing their first idea instead.

That’s great, too.

Don’t make this harder on yourself than it actually is.

All you have to do is write,

something,

every day.  

And then turn it in by 12 noon Central Time the following day.  

That’s it.

There’s even an escape hatch option of a short one line play at the end of every one of these posts.  If you’re dry one day, stressed out, unable to write anything, just email me the mini play at the bottom of the challenge and you get a pass for that day.

And, as has happened, if you have a personal issue related to your own health or the health of your loved ones, that takes precedence, of course.  Take care of yourself and your loved ones.  Writing is not the most important thing in life.  Life is.  If you need a special dispensation because of a sudden emergency, absolutely deal with that, and let me know as you’re able.  I like to think we’re very understanding.  We won’t be mad or disappointed in you for circumstances beyond your control.  Just keep us in the loop.

Don’t Stress About Sticking To The Writing Prompt

 

Last year, in response to a writing prompt on the second day, a writer reached out and said:

"I can't figure out how to fit a fire escape into the play that I'm writing."

To which I replied:

"That's fine. Keep writing your play the way you want to.  Ignore the prompt."

While we appreciate what good rule followers writers can sometimes be, you can feel free to give yourself a break any and all of the 30 days.

If you're working on a project and you just want to use the structure of daily having to turn in pages to the challenge as a way for you to either start or complete a script, go for it. (I did that ALL the time in past writing challenges run by others.)

The point is to write every day, not to write to the specific thing we tell you to.

The prompt is there to help inspire you.  It's not there to get in your way.

If the prompt doesn't work for you, then write something else.

If you want to write a cheeky aside to the rule you're ignoring, like a character saying "Boy, I really wish we had a fire escape for this problem," feel free to make fun of the prompt.  But it's not required that you even acknowledge it that much.

This is not a contest.

You're not being judged.

You're not being graded.

The only thing we want everyone to do is write a little bit every day for a month.

That's the only thing we ask of you.

And if you stumble one day and don't write, don't beat yourself up, just write the next day.

Don't sweat the guidelines, other than to put something in writing and then get it into our hands by 12 noon Central Time each day, via any of the routes outlined in the prompts.

Don't make it more complicated than that.

Just write.

Don’t Stress About Format

 

Given the turnaround time on these writing challenges, someone inquired last year if the script pages submitted needed to be in standard playwriting format or if it could just be something down and dirty like:

A: Hi there
B: Oh, hello yourself.
A: You're in my way.
B: Oh, sorry. No need to pull out that gun, I shall step aside.
A: Thank you.
B: No, thank YOU.

And it can absolutely be that simple.

As long as it's legible, easily readable and in English, we're not going to be picky about format.

Don't let the perfect layout of a script be the enemy of you getting more words on the page in the time allotted.

That said, some people take comfort in formatting (I know I do, I use it as an excuse to read over everything again and proof it while I'm formatting, but I'm super anal about those things, and we're trying to get new scenes and characters created here, so don't let anything like formatting stand in your way.)

Whatever helps your process.

One writer last year told me they traditionally do all their first drafts in long hand on paper first, and asked, would it be acceptable to take pictures of their handwritten pages and email those to us?  Yes, absolutely.

Again, legible, easily readable, and in English, that's all we need.

The layout on the page is otherwise up to you.

Have fun with it, don't make it a stumbling block to your creative process.

Also, I have seen some mighty creative use of space and font on the page over the years I've been reading new scripts from other writers - so feel free to have fun with that as well, if it inspires you to try something different.

 

 

Don’t Stress About Writing A Full Play

 

This question understandably came up last year so let’s address it before we get started:

Someone asked "Is the goal to write one full length play for the month or can we write 2 shorter plays -one act?"

The November novel writing challenge often instructs people to come with an idea, perhaps even researched prior to the beginning of November, and then the writers will spend the month cranking through churning out that first draft of a full novel by month's end.

We're not requiring the playwriting equivalent of that here.

If you'd like to set that as a goal for yourself, go right ahead.

My answer to the writer who asked this last year, which I shared with the rest, was:

"You can write whatever you want. 

You can write to the prompts. 

You can totally ignore the prompts and write something completely different. 

You can write one play, two plays, or 30 tiny plays, or just a bunch of random scenes, it's up to you. 

Hopefully, when the month is done, you have enough raw material to rewrite and play with to last you the rest of the year until next November. 

(For example, I got a full-length play out of a similar writing challenge two years running - though they were just very rough drafts on December 1st in those years, they have grown since. 
 
Also got a couple of ten minute plays out of those challenges, too.
 
Another year, I used the November daily challenge as an excuse to force myself to complete a first draft of a completely different play, writing every day until I got it done, and then played around with all the challenges that had been piling up the first couple of weeks for the remainder of the month.)

The point is just to write every day.  We're trying to encourage writing, focusing on prioritizing your playwriting each day for a whole month.  Doesn't need to be great, doesn't even need to be good, just needs to be something.

You can engage the challenge at any level you wish - as long as you're writing :)"

The first year I participated in Red Theater's writing challenge out of Chicago, about two weeks in, there was a prompt that jump-started an idea I would probably never have written otherwise (don't worry, I'll be sharing that one later). 
 
Then, about four days later, I thought of that first scene again and thought, "Hey, I think I have another idea involving those same characters. Let's revisit them." And I ended up doing that every day for almost two weeks during that November. When I finally ran out of gas, didn't know what to write next, I looked up and I had over a hundred pages of content, and said to myself, "Well, that's a play." It didn't have a shape or structure yet, but clearly my brain wanted to tell a story with those characters.
 
So after a couple more days of writing prompts getting me to the end of the month of November writing other things, I returned to that play and kept rewriting until it turned into a proper script.  That same year, I also accidentally wrote a nice little ten minute play as well that I still send out to theaters calling for ten minute play submissions.

Another year, I used the fact I knew I'd be expected to write something new every day for the November challenge to force myself to push through the first draft of a play I was already working on.

One year, I went back and revisited an idea I started developing for several days but abandoned during the previous year's writing challenge because I wanted to keep exploring it and the challenge forced me every day in the month of November to push myself a little harder to conjure ideas - and the writing prompts would often give me inspiration for possible scenes, encounters and conflicts between characters.
 
I would sometimes combine elements from two different challenges in ways that seemed more interesting to me, or revisiting a challenge later in November that I'd skipped over when it was first posted.

Use the writing challenge during each day of November to do whatever you want, accomplish whatever goals you want to set for yourself.

But the most important thing:

Just write.  Something.  Every day.  For a month.

The Rules - Threshold Theater November Playwriting Challenge

I've been told we need to be more formal about laying things out so...

Rules: 

 

Contest (aka, November Playwriting Challenge) Entry period ends October 31, 2022 at 11:59pm Central Time. 

 

The contest will run from 12:00 a.m. (midnight) Central Time on November 1, 2022 to 12:00pm (noon) Central Time on December 1, 2022

 

Participants must submit work by 12:00 p.m. (noon) Central Time each day to be considered eligible for winnings on December 1, 2022. 

 

Winner(s) will be announced no later than December 8, 2022

 

Winnings will be sent (check via US mail) out no later than two weeks after winners are announced (December 22, 2022). 

 

Winnings of $600 and over will require a form W-2 to be issued by Threshold Theater. 

 

By paying the entrance fee and submitting the email you agree to the rules set forth from Threshold Theater and all disputes will be settled directly between Threshold Theater and participants.

The Return of Threshold Theater's November Playwriting Challenge (Year 2) - REVISED

And after a nine month hibernation, we're back for round two!

November is traditionally a month when all sorts of writers sign up for challenges to finish the Great American Novel or that unfinished screenplay - why shouldn’t playwrights get in on the fun?

The goal is simple: to get you to prioritize your own playwriting, even if it’s just for a little while each day, every day, for a whole month.

Even if you only manage it every other day, or a couple of days a week, that’s still progress.

If you’re like me, you can sometimes be so good at putting off your writing until another day that you can look up and find weeks have gone by without you writing a single line of dialogue.  We want to get out of that habit and replace it with a more creative habit.

And if you manage to write every single day of the month of November, then there’s an extra little prize for you at the end (read on)

Our challenge was created as a bit of an homage to a similar writing challenge that my friends at Red Theater in Chicago ran for several years in which I took part (so far I’ve mined the material I developed there for two full-length plays and a ten minute play).  Since they’ve sadly discontinued the event, and Threshold Theater is devoted to the development of new work and creating a community of writers for the theater, we thought, “why not revive that November playwriting challenge idea and do it here?”

How it works:

Everyone who wants to participate in the challenge goes to the Threshold Theater donation page and puts in $15 (https://www.givemn.org/story/Kssucf)

(This is sort of like putting money in a pool for March Madness or an Oscar party, but this time, you're betting on yourself as a writer.)

(If the payment is a problem for you, contact us at ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com - we don’t want money to be a barrier to people participating in the challenge - we’ll make something work to get you in.)

When you’re making the donation, click the "Add A Dedication" checkbox and make a note that says “Writing Challenge”

(You can also feel free to uncheck the box at the bottom of the form that pays the credit card fees, just make it $15 even - up to you)

After putting in your entry fee, drop us an email at ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com to let us know you’re in.

Threshold Theater will take 20% off the top, which will go towards supporting the artists in our new play reading series and future productions.  The remaining 80% of the money collected from the entry fees will go into the pot to create that prize at the end I mentioned before.

The writers that manage to write something, every single day for the 30 days of November, will split the money at the end.  That, of course, is an extra reward on top of the main reward, which is that you prioritized your playwriting and wrote a whole bunch of new material in November.  (And everyone, whether they write all 30 days or not, will get that “new play material” prize.) (Every year I did this challenge through Red Theater, I wrote all 30 days and ended up getting my $15 back at the end as part of my share of the kitty, so it was basically free writing encouragement :)

First rule of the challenge - it doesn’t have to be good writing, it just has to be writing.

Part of the point of the challenge is to get you to just make decisions and run with them, blast past your internal censor and just put something on the page. One writer has likened it to doing improv with your keyboard.

Everything you write will, by the circumstances of its creation, be a first draft.  You can always go back and “fix it” later :)

Each day you will have a writing prompt.

I will post the writing challenge on our challenge blog at https://thresholdwritingchallenge.blogspot.com/

I will also email everyone participating with the text of that day’s challenge and a link to that blog post (which will come in handy later…)

(The plan is to give you two or three days’ worth of prompts in advance, so if you want to keep writing or get a head start on the next day’s work, you can.  The more writing the better.)

You can write to the prompt, or ignore it and write something completely different.  Up to you.  As long as you’re writing.

The point is just to give yourself the space and time to write something new.  

Doesn’t even need to be a complete scene, you could just have the beginning and the middle and not have any idea how to end it, the rest of the idea may come to you another day down the road.

As long as you have something written, that’s a good day.

If you’re just not able to get anything going one day in November, and all you can come up with is:

“Lights up

CAROL dances across the stage and disappears

Lights down

The End”

That’s fine

(Obviously we want to avoid 30 days of that but that’s enough of a placeholder to count for the day’s writing: Lights up, Something happens on stage, Lights down, The End - that’s the baseline we all start with as our escape hatch for the day, challenge yourself to do more)

The daily check-in to keep us all honest and for me to be able to track who’s writing each day will go like this:

You’ll get the prompt for November 1st in advance of that date.  You’ll write on November 1st.

By 12 noon, Central Time, on November 2nd, you’ll share your work with us in one of the following ways:

You can email us the script at ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com

You can post the script as a comment on the blog entry for the day’s challenge at https://thresholdwritingchallenge.blogspot.com/

You can post your script online on your own blog or website (or post it as a Google doc) and post a link to it in a comment on the blog entry for the day’s challenge at https://thresholdwritingchallenge.blogspot.com/

You can email that link to your posted work for the day at ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com

We're changing the deadline time for submission to 12 noon this year, rather than 8am.  

Because many of the writers last year were in other time zones, both earlier and later than Central Time, and it seems cruel to make the folks on the west coast have a 6am west coast deadline while the east coasters could have until 9am when the deadline was 8am Central Time here in Minneapolis, so we're going to shift the deadline to the middle of the day.  

You can always turn it in early, but 12 noon Central will be the cutoff and that way no one has an unnaturally early morning to make the deadline.  

I've been told by others in the company to choose one time (in this case, 12 noon Central Time for everyone) rather than a variable one by time zone, just so there's no confusion and everyone has the same shot at the same target.

So, submit your writing of the day for November 1st no later than 12 noon Central Time on November 2nd.

Then get working on the writing for November 2nd, to be turned in by12 noon Central Time on November 3rd.

And so on...

And we’ll all go through that process daily until 12 noon, Central Time, on December 1st, for the November 30th challenge.

(And don’t panic the first couple of days when we’re all getting up and running.  We’re not going to be sticklers while we’re all fighting technology and working out the kinks on November 1, 2 and 3… Just post as you’re able and keep us in the loop by email on what’s going on if you’re having trouble, need tech support, etc. :)

Then December 1st, I’ll sit down and make a list of all the people who logged in with writing work every day of the month, and I’ll double check it with you all, to make sure I didn’t miss anybody.

And then we’ll split the collective 80 percent of the entry fees for the challenge between those prolific writers who all remain standing at the end of the month.  We'll get further contact details at that time for the best way to get you your money.

I have always had a tremendous amount of fun doing challenges like this, and my aim is to make it fun and inspiring for all of you as well.

An overview of how things turned out last year (our first) is here if you're interested.

Honestly, I was expecting maybe half a dozen writers from the Twin Cities metro our first time out last year in 2021. Instead, we got 10 writers in Minnesota, plus 33 other writers from 20 other states, 2 from Canada, and 2 whose location was unknown.  I look forward to seeing how many writers (and from where) we have on the roster this year.

If you’re interested in participating, put your $15 in the prize pot via a donation through Threshold Theater’s GiveMN page (https://www.givemn.org/story/Kssucf) and send us an email at ThresholdWritingChallenge@gmail.com to let us know you want to take part in the challenge.

Deadline to sign up is October 31, 2022 - 11:59pm, Central Time

(Donation needs to be entered no later than 11:59pm 10/31/22; but if you don't get around to the email part of it to notify us until later, that's fine - I just need your email so I know where to send you the prompts every day :)

The fun (and writing) begin November 1, 2022.

Happy writing to you all!

Matthew A. Everett
Literary Director
Threshold Theater
(He/him/his)