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Ooh, notebooks! This week two winners will each receive a large Moleskine My Pilipinas notebook. (One with plain pages, one with lined paper, we’ll figure it out later.)

This week’s LitWit Challenge: How to write a thunderbolts and violins scene that is plausible and non-bloodcurdling, that does not make us want to run screaming from the computer to wash our brains out with soap and water.

Your instructions: Write the scene in which you meet the person you fall in love with. It doesn’t have to be literally thunderbolts and violins, but it has to be clear that something significant has taken place. Subtlety would be highly appreciated.

This first meeting could be factual or fictional, we don’t care as long as it’s the best writing you can crank out. At the first sign of schmaltz you’re out, so think it through. Consider Pride and Prejudice, the grandmummy of all matrimony novels. The first meeting did not go well, but you know there’s more.

So you know how you’re doing, we’re turning on the Yucch-meter. This way you can rewrite and repost your entry. While we’re at it, let’s allow readers to comment on each other’s work. Be kind.

1,000 words maximum, deadline on 11.59 pm, Saturday April the 24th.

The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by the lovely people of National Bookstore.

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The Yucch-meter has been activated. See Comments. We regret that we are not available to critique your work after this contest. If you send us your manuscripts they will not be read.