Halloween 2017 - Contest #1 -Tell us why Halloween is your favorite holiday! (10SBD prize)

Contest Season Overview

I have been straining my leash to wait until September to start this series, but I have at least 8 contests to run, and I will run one contest a week. I'll be aiming to make the contests lead into the holiday gradually. Obviously, this first one is to get us fanatics worked up ;>

Future contests will include:

  • Real life horror stories
  • Hollywood horror (TV and movies)
  • Costumes and make-up
  • Haunted houses (commercial entertainment sites) and/or decorating your own house
  • Halloween stories (open writing)
  • Real life encounters

The next contest will cover party planning, so you have time to see others' ideas and to whip up a badass party of your own.

Just don't let your guests starve waiting ;>

Obviously, I am a Halloween fanatic, so the first contest will reflect this, as we start putting thoughts of gheisties and ghoulies in the minds of those non-hallowed infidels! That way, they too, can be slowly seduced into this bestest of holidays ;>

This Contest (#1)

Why is Halloween your favorite holiday? Is there something funny you recall, or a special moment that made it so? Do you leave your decorations up all year? Have you ever made a pilgrimage to a haunted place in real life? Do you dress like Granpa Muster to formal events ;>

Tell your story!

Rules

  • If a rule is confusing, just ask on any thread
  • Write a post that suits the contest theme and post it to your blog
  • You may use material you have written before, but only once throughout the series.
  • Link your post in these comments; a summary is not required, but will attract more viewers, an illustration will attract even more!
  • I'll allow a fiction entry in ANY category, so as long as that entry is marked as fiction, at the beginning, and otherwise matches the theme of that week's contest.
  • You MUST reSteem the contest post; I want lots of entries, lots of Halloween posting to Steemit, and a bigger payout for the winner
  • The contest ends at the end of the payout period
  • The winner is the blog-link comment with the most votes (so make sure you post your entry to your blog and comment the link here!)
  • Any downvote on an entry is immediate disqualification (other than mine own)
  • Winner will be announced via the next contest thread.
  • Prize is 10 SBD plus all SBD accrued to the contest post

This is different than the method by which I ran my contests last year; the week long payout period enables folks to submit later in the week, and still have a chance to win

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