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!)

Topical Tuesday is returning Tuesday 9th March 2010. Stay tuned. The topic of the week will automatically be released at midnight GMT.

As always you will have precisely one week to post on your site and make a trackback, pingback of comment here!

The moment is here. The admin have finally decided upon a winner of this years My Year Competition Challenge.

Drum roll please!

The winner is

KERRI´S KLUTTER – MY DECADE PART II

Congratulations Kerri!

Apologies for the delay in releasing our winner for the My Year Competition Update.

A winner will be announced within the next 24 hours!

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

This weeks topic is a simple one.

Who or what inspires you most in life?

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.

Welcome to another Topical Tuesday! This week we would like to read your opinion on the 3D craziness happening out there. This is 3D week for the British Channel 4 and they will be broadcasting different shows and films in 3D. People can get hold of the 3D glasses required to watch the 3D content for free from supermarkets across the country but this is only the most recent instance of the 3D madness. Last week, inspired by the Channel 4’s “3D week”, BBC Radio 1’s Scott Mills asked people on the street to wear those 3D glasses and then proceeded to question them on whether they preferred to see the world in 3D (meaning through the 3D glasses). Yes, it’s silly but that’s how big a topic we’ve let it become so we’d like to bring the conversation over to you!

Is seeing a film in 3D (using those special glasses) important to you or something you really enjoy? Do you think it’s the same old fad coming back? Does it make things better or is it a gimmick?

You have a week to tell us and each other. Your time starts now.

Welcome to another Topical Tuesday! You guys are embracing the week-long topics and we couldn’t be happier. It seems like we’re keeping things this way at least for now.

This week we are looking to hear from you about your morning rituals. Are you a morning person? How long does it take you to get out of bed and out the door? Do you have breakfast at home? Do you skip breakfast altogether and have a coffee on the go or at the office (or wherever else you go to during the day)? We want to know it all!

You have until the 16th of November to tell us all about it. Get blogging and remember to link back to us or leave us a comment so we know you are taking part!

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!