Janice Sage, the owner and innkeeper of the Center Lovell Inn and Restaurant, wants to retire. Rather than sell the inn traditionally, however, she is holding an essay contest to find the person who will treat the old place right. She is charging $125 per entry, and hopes to attract at least 7,500 contestants, netting her the $900,000 estimated value of the property.
My prediction . . . she will get far more than 7,500 entries, and mine will be the toughest to reject.
The difficulty for the entrants as I see it is the 200 word limit. 200 words aint alot of space to get your point across. This post by itself is already 151 words. I have 50 more words to get my point across in this forum. Tough, tough, tough.
What I don't like about this article:
The rules don't say anything about essays written in calligraphy with a quill pen on a piece of faded parchment, but you should definitely do that. If you think you're going to beat that person, you just don't understand B&B culture. And the Center Lovell Inn will never be yours. Good luck, though.
Oh please, please, please don't go in for gimmickry. If that's the case I have no hope. I hate gimmicks. Delivery by horse messenger, an olde English school marm recitation, town crier style verbiage. No thanks!
I will say, my reaction to that above snippet makes me wonder if I really should be entering at all. Then again, does an innkeeper need to rely on gimmicks? I'll let you know after I've won.
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