Hello Kingdom Pen! We have another contest for you, although this one does not involve sending in a writing submission.
Win a FREE T-Shirt!
Kingdom Pen is in the process of developing KP Merchandise (T-shirts, Mugs, Pens, ect.) to be added to the Kingdom Pen Store. However, we need your help! We want you to give us your suggestions for what quote/slogan/phrase we should use on one of our T-shirt designs! Your suggestion can be funny, serious, or a mixture of both, but it must be writing related, and it must be original. What kind of writing T-shirt have you always wanted? Leave your suggestions in the comments!
Kingdom Pen will then select our top 10 or so suggestions, and then let YOU vote on them. The winner of this contest will receive a free T-shirt with their quote on it!
Example:
If God didn’t mean for books to be printed, He wouldn’t have invented trees.
We will be taking suggestions up until August 5th, so you have until then to submit your entry in the comments below!
Also, we would appreciate it if you would answer this ONE question survey letting us know what other types of merch you would like us to create. Depending on how many responses we receive, we may add other types of merchandise to go along with T-shirts. Thank you!
Here’s one of my favorites that is up on my wall:
“Don’t look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”~Mark Twain
Are people only allowed to put up 1 suggestion? That’s a great one, but I have plenty more that are awesome I’d love to share if possible. 😉
Here’s my quote: “For the life of the story is in the dialogue.” The best non-original quote Ive heard is the Roger Ebert quote about art. “Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”
“I write by God’s grace and for His glory.”
“Don’t talk to me, I just killed one of my characters.”
I really, really like the “Don’t talk to me, I just killed one of my characters.” Love it!
Thank you, Christy!
Me too X-D
Thank you!
Hear hear. Love it!
Thank you, Fiona!
“I’m a writer. I love it, and yet it is still torture.”
I would also like to ask if we are allowed more than one idea? 🙂
“Writing: somewhere between fun and torture.” 😛
Here’s my submission! Haha…not a true story, but something I thought was funny/serious. One line could be put on the back of the shirt, and the other could be on the front. 🙂
A friend once asked me: “Why do you write?”
I turned to them with an incredulous look on my face and answered: “Why do you breath?”
Love it! XD But… quick correction: “Breathe”, not “Breath”.
Sorry. I got an english major for a mom… 😛
Oh gosh, I always mix the two! XD
WRITE WITHOUT FEAR
EDIT WITHOUT MERCY
Oh, I love your quote, Hannah Lowe! I would totally wear that. 🙂
I think I’ll wait to think it over a little, but I’ll hopefully try to come up with a quote or two. I also think just the simple “Write for the Kingdom” would be great!
Can’t wait to see the final tees!
~Abby
Thanks Abby! That’s why I chose it 😀
I think “Write for the Kingdom” would be cool!
– Hannah
Goodness…yikes, this is not my forte! 😉 But here’s what I can think of! 🙂
“CAUTION: bystanders might be written into novel” Or some variation. 😉
“Ask me about my book…”
“My worst nightmare: living in a one story house.”
If I think of anything else, I’ll write them up! 🙂
CAUTION: bystanders might be written into novel
That is so awesome. XD I’ve done it before, too. Inspiration from random, uncommunicative strangers. It is a legitimate concern. 😛
oh, love the second one, Anastasis! lol..although, when people ask me…I usually reply, “Are you kidding?! Never ask a writer that. It might take years.” There really is no summing up. 😉
Ah, I’m not good with coming up with catchy things, but I’ll think it over.
Don’t write.
Plagiarize.
Take the words God used to make the universe and just scramble them up in a different order.
“God made man a gardener, but He Himself took up writing.”
“Somebody help me! My pen ran out of ink!”
“They create universes out of nothing. They guide the destinies of men wheresoever they will. They deploy passion and patience, madness and mercy as servants subject to their will: Writers”
Wow, I like the second one! 🙂
Just had a thought. That last one would be best with everything except writers on the front of a shirt with a … and then writers on the back.
This is my entry: “Don’t make me put you in a book and kill you.”
HC
‘A writer is the only person whose very grin can say “Hi, I’m crazy. How are you?” ‘
“I’m an observer. Watch what you do – the way you move, the way you speak, your expressions..anything and everything it’s highly possible you will be written in my novel.”
“Writing is a journey – sometimes the path changes.”
“Tell YOUR story.”
“Talk with crazy vocabulary. I’m always watching for new words.”
lol. I wasn’t sure if there was a limit…. 😉 I love everyone’s ideas..haha, super fun! 😀
oh..and just thought of this one.. 😉
“Don’t panic – there are 26 letters in the alphabet and millions of words out there waiting to be used by you.”
“The Might of The Pen for His Glory.” or “Before the Sword, Wield the Pen for His Glory.”
That’s all I can think of, I’m not good with coming up with these sorts of things. I really think, though, that whatever you add it should be something mentioning what sets Kingdom Pen apart from just any other writing club. We write the Creator rather than the creation, and as His ambassadors I think we should make that clear! 🙂
Just thought of another one!
The front: “Happiness is…”
The back: “Writing ‘THE END’ when you finally finish your story.”
To read is human; to write, divine.
Oh, darn. Someone apparently used that already. Not exactly the same quote, but substituting ‘write’ with ‘edit’. It seems that nearly everything has been thought of by someone else. If only I could have come before those other people I would have had so many grand ideas.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Great contest! Can’t wait to see the shirts!
Oh, you made me laugh so hard! That is so true, Maria. My favorite are the kinds you chew and digest. Yummy. 😉
Just wanted to say that Francis Bacon already said that or something very similar. Still a great quote though. =)
Some of my favorite quotes:
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
“If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.” -Kingsley Amis
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” -William Somerset Maugham
“A writer is someone who can make riddle out of an answer.” -Karl Kraus
The first one (by Groucho Marx) was so funny! I think I heard that a long time ago, but it brought back a good laugh. =D
This isn’t an original quote, but since most of us here at one time or another will have gotten the ‘are you insane or something?’ look, I wanted to share it. I don’t know who wrote it, but it’s one of my favorite quotes. Short and sweet— ‘If you can’t be brilliant, odd will do.’
“A Writer: Someone who loves words enough to bring them to life, and loves life enough to put it into words.” (Completely)
*I hit enter to soon* It was supposed to say, (Completely Original) =P
Oh wow… I like that one a lot.
Nice! I like it…
My entry:
Being a writing is an excuse to keep your imaginary friends around long after everyone else has given them up.
Also completly origianal. =)
-Mikayla-
Ooh! I like that!!
I love it!! =D
~Your biggest fan 😉
Here is my entry:
Words create worlds.
Writing is 5% talent and 95% not being distracted by the internet.
(Love this one, although it’s not original.)
My entry:
Good imagination makes a great story; a good story makes great imagination.”
I’ve seen different variations of this quote:
“Don’t irritate me. I’ll kill you in my book.”
And this one…which could be two lines or the front/back of a shirt:
“Writers are strange.”
“Who else would agree to hours of homework every day for the rest of their lives?”
And a few others:
“Writing is hard. Deal with it.”
“I do all my own writing stunts.” (not original)
“I’m not completely crazy. Sometimes I talk to my characters instead of myself.”
That last one— SO TRUE!
Yay! Finally you’re making KP pens! I’ve been telling Haley it needs to be a thing for a while. XD
How about this for a T-shirt? “I murdered someone today… In my novel.”
Haha! I would totally were a shirt that said this! XD
I’ve saved an entire country from ruin, discovered the world’s largest stash of buried treasure, and saved a family from despair – and I’m only on my fifth chapter!
I love the CAUTION: Bystanders might be written into novel sounds just hilarious!
“If God gave you a story, write it for His glory!”
Okay, here you go.
“When life gives you lemons… suck lemons! Go write a book!”
“Writing is the glorious process in which a story is lifted in the art of ink and gifted into the hands of those who appreciate it.”
And Finally!
“People like writing for he joy of a simple thought blossoming into a beautiful story… Plus it’s a great pass-time!”
My suggestion is “Your life is a blank page, write it well”
How about something like:
There are two things an author needs to survive:
1. Chocolate
2. Plenty of ink and paper
“Christian Writer: A writer with an almighty muse that shines through in everything they write.”
I wrote a few haikus about being a writer—you could either print them on the shirt in haiku form or perhaps put the first two lines on the front and the last on the back. I’m writing them here in haiku form. =)
1. My thoughts unwind from
the ball of inspiration—
oh no! There’s a knot!
2. I feel deeper pain,
behold brighter light than most.
I am a writer.
3. I have fought in wars,
touched the stars, created worlds,
all with this old pen.