After a long holiday abroad you are on a flight back home when the plane suddenly explodes and crashes on a desert Island. Only Six of the passengers survive.

In the hold there seems to be six rucksacks each marked with the name of each of the six survivors. When you open yours you discover it contains five items you would have packed had you known this was going to happen.

What are these items and why would you have packed them?

(Guess which series this was influenced by?)

We shall continue our light-on-thinking topics this week with something I think everyone can really get into.  A food war.  What’s a food war?  It’s like any other war, really.  One side against another.  Just, in this case, both sides are foods.

This week, we shall delve into two snacks which I hold dear to me.

Jello or Pudding.

Which will it be?  The wiggly, jiggly, mind-boggling moving concoction?  Or that creamy, dreamy, smooth-as-butter confection?

You decide!!

This week, we decided we wanted to do something a little less brain taxing.  Something out there.  Something which just makes you laugh when you read the topic.  But, do think about it a little bit when posting your thoughts on it.

A fight to the death…

Lara Croft VS. Batman

Discuss.

Admin Addition: Take part in any Topical Tuesday in 2010 and yours might be selected to receive a custom blog design – read more

To celebrate the start of Script Frenzy on the 1st of April 2010 we are attributing two topics to the whole event. Part One is as follows -

Your writing has caught the public´s attention and now there are calls for you to write a screenplay/stage play/TV script (pick one, and dont worry we arent going to ask you to write the whole thing).

All we would like you do this week is either write a proposal for your idea or a brief introductory scene… It does not have to be an epic.

I recently had the urge to write one of these myself. I found it hugely helpful – not only to remind myself of childhood dreams and ambitions long since forgotten, but also to remember that there are some things I have achieved.

This weeks challenge is to write a Life List of ten things you would like to do before you die. Only ten mind – make them count.

One day, whilst out walking, you discover a small gold latern laid on the ground. You quickly pocket it and head home believing that, just maybe, its valuable. Turns out during rubbing its actually cheap as chips, but during one session of particularly aggressive rubbing a genie pops out and shouts “enough already, now I have a damn headache”. After a great deal of bartering he grants you three wishes and one penalty.

What would your three wishes be? What would be your penalty?

(FYI Your penalty must be of significant enough magnitude to warrant the three wishes – or the Genie will deny them!)

I am thrilled to be writing this right now because it is perhaps the most exciting topic and news I have ever posted on here. (Hint: It involves us giving away a great prize!) Are you ready? Of course you are!

The Topic

This week’s topic is titled “My Year” but it does not end there. You are free to extend this into a post or a number of posts titled “My Decade”. We are giving you the freedom to write about what you lived, experienced, felt, lost, dreamt, read, watched, created or even ate in any format you want! You can create a post, a video, a podcast, an image or even a wiki (if you’re mad enough) to express yourself and you can enter it to the competition by linking it back to this post and emailing us at admin@topicaltuesday.info.

The Prize

The lovely and very talented Eliza of The Style Dragon will be giving away a custom blog design worth $149 to one lucky winner of our competition for FREE! For those of you looking to escape blogspot or similar we will also offer 12 months free hosting on Hostgator´s green and eco-friendly servers.

All participants receive a badge to proclaim their victory in Topical Tuesday’s 2009 My Year Competition Challenge!

The Rules

The rules are simple:

• Make it powerful
• Make it yourself
• Make it by 31st January 2009 – Midnight GMT
• Make it online
• and tell your friends, your family, your neighbours, your pet rocks!

The participants will be listed here as they take part and we are informed of their entry (or entries) and will be highlighted on the Topical Tuesday Twitter feed as well. The winner will be announced on the 31st January 2009 so make sure you tune in then to see who won.

The Selection Process

A group of Top 5 entrants will be selected after all the entries have been reviewed by the Topical Tuesday editors. Out of these five winners, one will be randomly selected through Random.org and he or she will be the receiver of our grand prize.

This is all from us for now. Now, get writing! We can’t wait to get your submissions! You have until the 31st January 2009!

Entries

• My Decade : Part I by Kerri´s Klutter
• My Decade Part II by Kerri´s Klutter
• NJS by Petrus (a youtube entry)
• My Year by Benchmark 60

They say that everyone has one good story within their capabilities, and since this is the month of Nanowrimo (almost at its end folks!) we´ve decided to dedicate this weeks topic to you! For those of you already doing Nanowrimo this may well be a cinch for you, provided you are willing to bare all shall we say.

This week we would like you to think about your story. It can be anything – memoirs, fantasy… whatever. Then we´d like you to do one of two things:-

1) Write an introduction to your story. Tell us about it.

or

2) Write your opening paragraph.

Obviously we´d prefer it if you did the latter, but if you´re a little challenged for time (or just a wuss like me) you are perfectly welcome to just give us a brief.

This weeks Topical Tuesday is in three parts. It all about reflections -

Where were you ten years ago?
Where are you now?
Where would you like to be in ten years?

As Colin highlighted last week you now have the entire week ahead to complete your entries, so you no longer have the excuse of a busy life not to partake!

Post your entries on your blog, and dont forgot to trackback, ping, or comment to let us know!

A time capsule is a historic cache of goods and/or information, usually intended as a method of communication with people in the future. Time capsules are sometimes created and buried during celebrations such as a World Fair, cornerstone laying for a building, or at other events. The phrase “time capsule” has been in use since about 1937.

Imagine you have been asked to put together a time capsule that would represent you as a person at this very moment. You can put anything you want in this capsule (its size, rather surprisingly, is infinite). The only stipulation is simply this, it has to represent you as a person – your personality, your treasures and passions, your desires for the future – even your past.

What would you put in your time capsule today?