Adventureland: A Writing Challenge

o1: in which your character receives an anonymous letter/text/email

o2: in which your character confides in a friend

o3: in which your character makes an important decision

o4: in which someone disapproves of your character

o5: in which your character cancels a previous engagement in order to prepare for something else

o6: in which your character hurts a friend

o7: in which your character can't contain an emotion

o8: in which your character is torn between two decisions

o9: in which your character talks to a family member for advice

1o: in which your character gets lost

11: in which your character has to give up something they loved

12: in which your character doubts themself

13: in which your character can't see the forest for the trees

14: in which your character loses sight of what they're doing

15: in which your character finds help in an unlikely source

16: in which your character overeats

17: in which your character makes a mistake

18: in which your character builds something

19: in which your character has to do something they'd rather not

2o: in which your character feels like they have hit rock bottom

21: in which your character apologises for an old misdeed

22:in which your character misinterprets friendliness as flirting

23: write a chapter based on this Terry Pratchett quotation: “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

24: in which your character has to visit a relative

25: in which someone doesn't give up on your character

26: in which someone surprises your character

27: in which your character tries to teach someone a lesson

28: in which your character says this line: "I used to feel like I was missing a piece and I didn't even realise it until I found the piece that fitted just right."

29: in which your character is reunited with something/someone

3o: write a chapter based on this quotation from Mary Downing Hahn: "“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”