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Writing Challenge: Story By Numbers

  Here's my story for this month's Writing Challenge. Thank you to Marisa for introducing us to The Giant Storymaker and Tara for presenting such a nice activity proposal . This story uses words and phrases found with #93.

 My Story: The Mistake's Suitcase

Character: a Polish immigrant; 

Place: greenhouse

Situation: a bomb threat

Objects: the wrong suitcase

  Once upon a time , there was a Polish immigrant called Matias who was passionate about gardening. He lived i

My ten-year-old daughter was excited to take this month's writing challenge, too! She wrote this story tonight. She surprised me when she said: "It's a love story." 

A Love Story by JP

a length of rope
a strange light shining in the dark
a full restaurant
a divorced couple

About a week ago, a young man named Bob brought his wife, Lindsey, to a restaurant. He wanted to do something special with her because that night was the night when he was going to announce that he loved somebody else. Yes, it ha

Here is my another attempt.  This time I chose number 17:

Character: A pilot.

Place: a funfair

Situation: driving a car without knowing how:

Object: a Horse saddle

25 SECONDS – THE EXTRACT OF LIFE.

Razi a cadet pilot was on a training flight.  He was normally following the instructions of his trainer in the control room, diving, flying higher then getting low altitude. Suddenly he detected that something was wrong with his plane, because it started jerking.  He felt that as he was sitting on a horse

I chose # 61. I hope you’ll enjoy the story.

Character            :              a warrior

Place                  :              a ghost town

Situation             :              finding a secret passage

Object                :              a silver door

Title                   :                  The Secret Passage to Happiness

                 Once there was a blissful town in the mountainous province of Ide. The town was known for its jolly and grateful dwellers. Every Saturday, the town peop

"Writing Challenge: Story by Numbers".

The number I chose is 21

Character: A man on the run (‘me’)

Place:        A hall of mirror

Situation:  Falling in love with an stranger

Object:      An empty fridge

 THERE IS NO LOVE WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY:

 This is the story of ‘me’ (‘me’ can be everyone or anyone, ‘me’ just a representation).

 I saw her on the road.   I found myself staring at her.  May be because of the warmth of my sight, I felt a jerk in her slim flexible body, (she might be a belly dancer).  Sh

Here is my story for this month's Writing Challenge. Thank you to Marisa for introducing us to the Great Storymaking Tool. This story uses words and phrases found with #38.  

The Last Laugh

Once upon a time there was a prince named James. James hated being part of the royal family, so he ran away with some gypsies from his hometown.

The gypsies were bored one day, so they stole a speedboat from the local marina. It was supposed to be a simple pleasure cruise, but something went terribly wrong. The

That is the story about a pirate although you can't believe he exists in a virtual reality created by two young men in a university's room. These young are boys passionates by develop characters in virtual world.

The story was developed in a solitary island in the caribbean sea, there the pirate live in a small town when he is not at sea. In this town the people that live there has a very problem, is what they are gossip. They all the time speaking about the life of other persons, like they don't

It has been a while since we've written fiction together in a Writing Challenge! My friend Marisa, an English language teacher trainer in Greece, recently shared a fun tool for teachers to use in class. It's called the Giant Storymaker. It's always fun to try classroom activities and games in an online environment like MyEC. Sometimes they work very well! For example: (Jeopardy? | Don't Say Yes or No | Have you Ever?| Homograph Challenge)

Your Task 

1. Pick a two-digit number from 1-9. My number w

This blog is a response to all members and friends who took the time to send their messages and to know my whereabouts during the times that I was missing in action (MIA) on MyEC.

My leave was supposed to be for just two weeks, but it was extended due to the calamity that struck my province. My country was hit by super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda by its local name) last November 8, 2013. This was the strongest typhoon that ever occurred in my country according to CNN. My family monitored the news a

Many days ago, I asked Tim a question, "A relatively so-so restaurant with good service attitude and a relatively good restaurant with bad service attitude, which is your choice, A or B?"

Tim chose B,  a relatively good restaurant with bad service attitude. I saw with him then because I thought the reason you went to a restaurant was for food but not for making friends with the staff there. Yet an experience of recently changed my mind. Two restaurants which are near where I live are such ones as

I'm trying hard to get down to business but not able to gather words for comment section or for Blog writing. I don't know, what's wrong with me, Almost every day I come here and try hard to participate in MyEC activity but not able to write anything on comment section. I want to get my rhythm back. Please help me, my friends.........

Looking forward to hear, knowledgeable advice from your side my MyEC friends. 

Thanking you very much friends, who post nice and encouraging words on my page, hope a

Bala is a sweet Indian girl. Luckily, she is my friend and my sister. I am shy, but I am not shy to speak it out that I like her!

I dont know why I am always so fortunate, whether in real world or here. I am surrounded by a couple of nice friends whenever. Giggling, I am not showing off, but it is true Mickey is lucky.

Don't take me as a lesbian, but I do love girls. I appreciate different kinds of girls. Bala is a girl who is funny and lovely, as well as warm-hearted; she is a girl that I'd love

After the creation of my EC you know how people joined my EC ?

Hmm here they are :-

Inna and Kaxo joined like this -:)

Pearl ,Muhammad & Miracle at last find the place for ..... -:) you know what I mean -:)

This is how Hasi joined my EC -:)

When Eric realized that he is in MY EC's main room -:) 

When the seeker has come to know that EC is created, then he began his journey to My EC for joining.

When ASH decided to join my EC -:)

This is how sofia joined the main room -:) 

hah! This is my ever best fr

Hi guys! as you know what did we do before my EC ? in my previous post. -:)

Do you know that how did my EC came into being?

hmm I am gonna tell you the secret that how it exactly happened when my EC founded by the nice person.

One day Sir Josef Essberger thought that we should create a new and an informative platform for the people from all over the world for English Learning.

 Then, Sir Josef Essberger asked to T Mal that if he would join the EC as an EC Moderator? After the deep thinking T Mal sai

This blog is dedicated to my sweet friend , my sister and my teacher Lady Anne. Lady Anne we are all missing you so much.Please come back we really need your presence.This is for you.

It was a very difficult time for us when noaslpls had left EC, then our EC members (I must say that they are well wishers of MY EC) had tried their best to convince my sister to rejoin My EC -:)

when My sweet sisters SID, Ayesha Noor,Angel,Tika,Purple,Tehreem Fatima,Abeer,Loyal Wafa,Meher Rehman, Sima,Afrooza,Deepa,L

Dear Captain,

I have my hair cut, perhaps as short as yours. Thus, I don't need to look for my plaiting string here and there.

I feel sorry and hurt for both my mom and myself. She is busy, and has to take good care of me at the same time. I can not please her by doing whatever she arranges for me. Sigh! To make myself not guilty for her, I did attend some of the blind dates she arranged for me, yet I don't like any of the guys. They gave me a feeling that whoever seeks love for getting out of the

This is my third entry on My Perth Diary. This blog is dedicated to 1 Omer who told me that he needs a year to finish reading my previous blog, Day Two : 30th Dec 2013. I hope this blog is not that long, and he will be able to finish it before the grape juice turn into wine. LOL 

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

Day Three : 31st Dec 2013

I was getting excited. I never thought that I will one day celebrate the coming of a new year in a Australia. We had asked the hotel reception on new

It's 1/19/2014 here in the U.S.

Tomorrow is a nationally celebrated holiday. Some of us take the day off. Our government offices, banks, and many other businesses observe it's historical impact. Tomorrow is MLK's birthday.

Most Americans have no idea of who Martin Luther King really was or what he stood for. To me, he's an icon that deserves praise, admiration, and respect for his accomplishments.

He lost his life while fighting for what he believed in. That's an admirable quality in my opinion.

Yes

This is the continuance of My Perth Diary. This blog is dedicated to a friend of mine, "Yes WMW! You! There's no need to look at other people on your left or right, or even above or below you. It's just to tell you that I can write longer than longest. LOL"

Day One : 29th Dec 2013

Day Two : 30th Dec 2013

The four of us had decided to rent a car during our vacation in Perth. It's easier to move around between Cities. My friend had made an advance online booking with a car rental company in Perth. Th

The journey is never easy.

What we say and how we post our sentiment here on EC can often be misinterpreted by others from different beliefs and cultures.

To me, "It's always good".., A healthy respect for learners and non native speakers is a prerequisite when considering what's posted.

If Noas wishes to post a travelogue of her visit to Australia, if Mickey writes about "The Captain", if Shaw chooses to share his creative paintings..etc...etc..

Please, give them the creative freedom to do so. This