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To pitch an idea for a blog post or article to the YourLifeIsATrip.com editorial team, please enter your name, email address, story pitch and a short bio in the boxes below.

PLEASE NOTE: A pitch is not a completed story. A pitch is not a recital of I-went-here-I-did-this and that. A pitch is a few short sentences that tell us a story. A story that has a beginning, middle and end.

To help get you started, below are three samples of successful story pitches:

"It was scary to walk through Paris alone at night, and I almost jumped out of my skin when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I wheeled around, and little did I know that the man I faced would one day be my husband."

"I was so on edge that I found myself yelling at friends and snarling at strangers. It was clearly time for a rest. I pictured myself on a lush, tropical island, meditating under a beach umbrella. I ended up, instead, on a noisy, stinky, fourth class bus that broke down on the side of a mountain. Amazingly, it was just what I needed."

"I was crazy in love with a woman named Sue. Unfortunately, Sue had as many suitors as I have fingers. When she invited me to go horseback riding with her in Montana, I thought yes, cool, I can be her knight in shining armor. The problem is that I was a knight who had never been on a horse before. The experience not only changed her opinion of me, but it also changed my opinion of her."

An editor will contact you after reviewing your submission. If the pitch is something that would be of interest to our readers, you will get an assignment. If you have trouble with spelling and grammar, please have someone copy edit your writing prior to final submission, as we do not provide line editing. Unless the editor specifies otherwise, the story should be first person, experiential, and less than 1,000 words.

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