The gist of this contest is to share ideas for miscellaneous inventions!

Delete the word "grandiose" from your dictionary and suggest anything in anyway that reasonate with you the most. Cyberpunk or Steampunk? Heavy or light? Which field it can improve? Its's up to you to choose.

Winter is coming (in Australia at least) and things are starting to cool down!

I want you guys to create a cozy story that makes you feel warm in an otherwise cold setting!

Maybe it's a person visiting a cute little cafe for a hot drink and they come across unexpected love or friendship?

Perhaps someone has moved into an old house and gives it life again through warm soul food?

Or, it's a cold, snowy day and a poor animal needs to be nurtured back to health with love and a nice, warm bed.

The subject is up to you, as long as it is a warm setting in cold weather!

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RULES!

*Try to keep it mostly pg. I don't care about mild swearing, but I want it to be mostly wholesome. A little bit of blood from cuts and scrapes are fine, but no gore this time.

*Please keep it to a maximum of 1k words!

*Has to be a warm setting on a cold day! Could be snow or just a really bitter winter day, but it must be cold outside ❄️

*Genre is up to you!

*Have fun with it!

Bonus points for a thrilling plotline, cute setting, or unexpected twist! 😁

There’s always that onescience theory that makes your brain short-circuit in a good way. Maybe it’s black holes eating time, quantum particles ghosting reality, or the idea that we’re all living in a hologram. Whatever it is, I wanna hear about it.

🧬 This contest is for the curious, the passionate, the "I watched one documentary and now I believe I’m a physicist" kind of writers.

✅ Your mission:

~Pick your favorite science theory

~Explain what it is (as wild or weird as it may be)

~Tell me whyit’s your favorite

Show how it messes with your mind, your worldview, or just straight-up makes you feel alive....................

You can go nonfiction (essay-style), or get creative turn it into a short sci-fi tale inspired by the theory. Whatever your style, make it explode with personality and passion.

💥 Make me care about the theory that bent yourbrain. Bonus points for humor, bold analogies, and personal flair.

📏 Word Limit: 500🎯 Judging based on: Clarity, Creativity, Passion and brain-bending awesomeness.

🎁 Prize:The winner gets a 1-on-1 Question & Answer Session with me(the host), where we’ll geek out about your favorite theory.

I’ll ask cool, curious, mind-bending questions about your chosen theory and YOU get to teach me why it's amazing. We can do it right here on Penana (in messages or comments), or another way if preferred.

Think of it like a mini-interviewwhere you're the star. Because if your theory blew my mind, I want to learn more from you.

For each one of us there are inner rules, beliefs and PRINCIPLES!

In just one paragraph (5-12 lines) describe one of your principles, how it has affected you and anything related to that.

You can be poetic, describtive or just type it normally. Let's share our values!

HI. I'm back. In this contest write a poem in less than 10 lines about a thing which you hate the most. It might be a thing season, feeling or even a person.

The main motto of this contest is to reduce your stress. Once you pour your heart out about it you'll feel relieved. So make it appropriate for people of all ages, and always a poem doesn't need to rhyme sometimes the feel speaks a lot.

Hope you enjoy participating. Bye Bye.

P.S:- Just write whatever you feel.

Have you ever seen those cool moodboards online and thought to yourself that they would be cool vibes to implement into a character, a story setting, or maybe an entire plot line? This contest is based around this moodboard image. Read on for more details.

(Image found on Pinterest)

If you would like to join, write something inspired by this image. It can be based on the general energy around it, using the creatures and objects as key story elements, creating a character backstory, describing a world with the same color palette, or really anything. You could even write down a little story plan with ideas in bullet points. It doesn't have to be super sophisticated, this is just for fun. Likes determine the winner.

As for rules, make sure you are nice to everyone else participating, regardless of the kind of content they put out. I encourage you to read the other entries, but you aren't obligated. It just might be fun to see others' ideas. You may also take LIGHT  inspiration from other entries so long as you ask the writer first. The most important thing, though, is to have fun. Don't stress too hard. :)