{"id":4234,"date":"2009-03-16T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2009-03-16T21:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:46:35","slug":"writing-opporunity-write-the-ending-for-the-strange-ship-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/16\/writing-opporunity-write-the-ending-for-the-strange-ship-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Opporunity: Write the ending for “The Strange Ship: Part II”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"strangeship_0001\"<\/a>James Kennedy<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong>, author of The Order of Odd-Fish<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, has a strangely compelling post on his blog<\/a> asking readers to help him write the ending to the first book he ever wrote–The Strange Ship<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[A]s a lark, back in November I posted The Strange Ship,<\/em> the first book I ever wrote<\/a> (I was seven years old). I mentioned I had written a sequel. Some of the students in Mrs. Vivian’s fifth grade class<\/a> asked me to put it online. My pleasure!<\/p>\n

In The Strange Ship,<\/em><\/a> two nameless space explorers called “moneymen” and their trusty droid 5-0-6 stumbled upon a strange ship full of monsters (including the giants Carziperes, Diploziperes, and Zarzit). The moneymen then proceeded to blow up the ship by making all the monsters simultaneously sneeze.<\/p>\n

Clearly a sequel was required, to tie up all those loose ends. So let me take you back to March 13, 1981-almost exactly 28 years ago-and The Strange Ship: Part II.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, I must warn you-the last couple pages are, tragically, missing! The story breaks off right in the middle of the climax! But America, my carelessness is your opportunity. I propose a contest. Draw \/ write YOUR OWN ending to The Strange Ship: Part II<\/em> and send it to me!<\/a> Let’s make the deadline April 15, 2009. I’ll post the new endings right here on this blog, and there will be prizes!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full post and experience the wonderful drawings in their entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Kennedy (Nara-ken, 2004-06), author of The Order of Odd-Fish, has a strangely compelling post on his blog asking readers to help him write the ending to the first book he ever wrote–The Strange Ship. [A]s a lark, back in November I posted The Strange Ship, the first book I ever wrote (I was seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,12,19,9,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cartoonillustration","category-contest","category-humor","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t