Creative Writing Challenge
May 07, 2008
I want to issue you guys a challenge:
First, I'll give you the source. This is a short Bible passage from the Old Testament prophet (a person that speaks for God) Isaiah chapter 31. First I want you to read it. This is in "The Message" version, so it's easy to read:
1-3 Doom to those who go off to Egypt thinking that horses can help them,
Impressed by military mathematics,
awed by sheer numbers of chariots and riders-
And to The Holy of Israel, not even a glance,
not so much as a prayer to God.
Still, he must be reckoned with,
a most wise God who knows what he's doing.
He can call down catastrophe.
He's a God who does what he says.
He intervenes in the work of those who do wrong,
stands up against interfering evildoers.
Egyptians are mortal, not God,
and their horses are flesh, not Spirit.
When God gives the signal, helpers and helped alike
will fall in a heap and share the same dirt grave.
Here is your challenge: I want you to do some creative writing, and put the main idea of this into a short story. Write this story in any format you want. You don't have to quote the passage, or explain it at all. Put the meaning of it, or at least the best that you understand it, in a way that is interesting and explainable.
The most creative and well written one will be a featured article on this website and will be submitted on the internet on a network where more people will see it. Please submit it as a blog on your MePage or send it to , and send Ryan a message on his MePage.
This contest will end in 1 week, on May 14th!
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