SUBMISSION

1. Name:

[can be anonymous, your first name only, or even your full name]

2. Where you live:

[can be left blank if you don't want people to know]

3. One sentence stating what the adventure/experience was:

Only ONE sentence. ie. I walked away from my career and moved to another country. I revealed a secret that changed my life.  I flew across the country in a plane I built. I got over my fear of heights. ….something like that. I ended my relationship with my partner – which was one of the toughest things I ever did – and went out into the world with my bucket list.

4. Backstory:

What events led up to this taking place? What was going on in your life? ie. As a little boy, I watched a horse kill a dog and injure my uncle which is why I’m terrified of horses. OR:  I had the life, I made the money, I was living ‘the dream’ until….x happened….which led to this change in my life.

5. The ADVENTURE/experience:

Describe it…what was it about? was it physical, spiritual or introspective?

6. Feelings and emotions:

What were the feelings and emotions that surrounded this experience? How did you feel when doing it? Or even up to it? After the fact?

7. What did you get out of it?

Did you learn something new? Did you like it? Hate it? Discover a new awesome hobby?

8. What was one of the more interesting aspects of your experience?

Did anything funny happen? Uncomfortable? Meet any new people? Was it the best thing you ever did?

9. Any challenges to overcome?

Fears? Doubts? people not wanting you to do it? Nervous tension? Phobias?

10. Any life-altering moments…A-HA moments?

11. How do you feel now? How have you changed?

12. Did your experience have an effect on the lives of the people around you?

13. Did you have a source of inspiration? Current inspirations? People who inspire you?

14. Any upcoming future adventures/experiences?

Please take your time to write to the best of your ability. If the grammar is poor, has spelling mistakes, a lack of punctuation, or a confusing storyline, Monthly Adventure will be unable to use it.

Please preview your story for spelling errors before submission. If you don’t know how a word is spelled, please double-check it with a dictionary or use spellcheck.

Please avoid using abbreviations such as “u” instead of “you.”

Monthly Adventure may change your story’s title or do minor editing changes in the text in order to improve readability or correct mistakes.

Monthly Adventure reserves the right to refuse stories that are too short, juvenile, vulgar, off-topic, poorly written, written in UPPERCASE, without punctuation, or any story that looks like spam or promotional material.

This site is for the general public.

In addition, any adventures that contain content of a sexual nature will not be published.

Do not copy stories from other people on the web or worse, pass it off as your own as it is a breach of copyright.

If a photo, video or link plays a significant role in your story, please send it. Most people are visual and enjoy seeing photos that depict your experience. Please be aware that you need to own the copyright or have legal permission to use any of the media files you send in so Monthly Adventure has the legal right to publish them on the Monthly Adventure website.

There is no guarantee that every story sent in will be published. Monthly Adventure has the right to reject any submitted story.

Please provide a valid email address as Monthly Adventure may need to get in touch with you for certain matters regarding publication.Invalid emails will be considered to be a sign that the story was fabricated, and therefore will influence the decision of publishing your adventure.

If you are under 18 years of age, please include parental or guardian permission and contact information. If your story is selected, your parent or guardian will be contacted to confirm permissions. Please note that personal information will be removed for safety purposes. If you are 18 years and older, divulging personal information in your story is up to you, but it is not encouraged. Please use common sense. Also, Monthly Adventure has the right to remove any personal information you provide, including anything that resembles advertising.

Please be aware that readers of Monthly Adventure are from different backgrounds and cultures and may provide comments that you do not personally agree with. You may be the only person who truly knows your story, so you should not take it personally when some readers ask for additional information and understand that it is part of normal discussions where people exchange ideas.

You are welcome to submit multiple stories, after all, life is an adventure and there are many adventures to write about.

Depending on the number of stories submitted, it is uncertain how long it might take before your story is read.

Please be aware that all submissions are subject to being used, reproduced, modified, published, edited, translated, distributed, performed and displayed in any media or medium, or any form, format or forum now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose, in perpetuity, without further notice.

Your submission to Monthly Adventure must be original (not copied), in good taste, legal, accurate and true, non-defamatory, non-threatening, non-confidential, non-infringing of copyrights owned by others and relevant for this site. You certify that you have the right to submit the text and photo that you are submitting. Your submission signifies agreement to the above and that you agree to grant a royalty-free, transferable, perpetual license to publicly display your submission on this web site. You also grant this web site the right to pursue anyone who copies your submission. This site may or may not publish your story or use it to promote or provide to the media as we see fit. This includes featured articles in newspapers, magazines news stories and other media representations in print. Once stories are published, they cannot be deleted, unless you present a reason that we consider valid.