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Summer Reading: Goosechase Missions

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Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Missions!

  • You may submit up to SIX of these, total. So choose carefully!
  • If you create something that does not fit the space or time allowed in the Goosechase, include a link to the full piece.

A note about AI Use:

  • All of the missions instruct you to "Create" in some way.
  • This means your work is done by you, and you have moved beyond any suggestions from AI tools to create something unique.
  • If you use AI to get ideas, be sure you have expanded on those ideas through significant effort and adaptation. For example, I created part of the banner on this page with help from an image generation GPT. It took me over an hour and a lot of my own ideas to finalize the various iterations and tweaks in Canva. I have cited my prompt underneath.
  • Take pride in your own ideas and your own efforts and show your best, most creative self!

Escape Plan: How would YOU escape from an obstacle in the story?

  • Text - Write out your escape plan from a difficult obstacle in your book
  • Image - Draw your escape route on a map or illustration of the setting
  • Video - Act as a news reporter describing how you, as a character in the story, escaped

The Ultimate Side Quest: What extra quest would you add to the story?

  • Text - Describe an extra adventure you'd have if you were in the story
  • Image - Design a poster of a new setting you'd travel to in the story
  • Video - Pitch an extra adventure in the story to a movie executive thinking of filming the story

Adventure Soundtrack: What songs would fit the story perfectly?

  • Text - List the songs on a playlist that would fit the story with a note about why each one is a good fit
  • Image - Design an album cover for the soundtrack that would fit this story
  • Video - Film a music video that would fit the story

Emoji Adventure: Re-tell the story, emoji-style!

  • Text - Write the key events of the story with emojis sprinkled throughout
  • Image - Design a poster showing the vibe of the story with emojis
  • Video - Create a cartoony version of the story using emojis

Mission: Survival - Create a survival plan or kit for someone visiting your book's world

  • Text - Create a packing list for someone visiting and tell why each item is essential
  • Image - Gather and take a photo of items a visitor would need to survive
  • Video - Film a demonstration of how to survive!

Portal to Another World: Describe or show the setting of a fantasy or sci-fi story

  • Text - Describe the setting (link to a longer piece of writing)
  • Image - Take a picture of an illustration you have done (drawing, painting, etc)
  • Video - Act as a travel guide giving a tour

Time-Traveler's Log: Journal about visiting the past through a historical fiction story

  • Text - Journal entry (link to a longer piece of writing)
  • Image - Photo of a timeline or handwritten diary page
  • Video - Vlog from the past describing what it's like

Secret Map: Show a character's journey on a map

  • Text - Describe the difficulties of the journey
  • Image - Draw a map indicating the route
  • Video - Explain the obstacles along the way

Passport to Adventure: Design a passport stamp for another country

  • Text - Write directions to the designer of the stamp about what it should have on it
  • Image - Take a picture of a stamp you have drawn, painted, etc
  • Video - Film a commercial promoting the stamp to future travellers

Alternate Universe: Imagine how one huge change in your book would affect the whole world if it were true

  • Text - Write a paragraph describing the change and its impact
  • Image - Create a comic or comic strip of the new world after the change
  • Video - Film a news report about the change and what happened

Explorer's Guide: Guide a traveller into the book's world

  • Text - Write a page in a guide that highlights the most unique aspects of the book's world
  • Image - Take a photo of a page you have illustrated that shows one of the unique parts of the book's world
  • Video - Film a video explaining where visitors should travel in your book's world

Step Into Their Shoes: Make a different choice from a character and show what happens

  • Text - Describe the moment you'd choose differently and tell what happens
  • Image - Create a comic strip of the new scene with your choices (and upload a pic)
  • Video - Act out the change you'd make and show how it's different from what the character did

Create your Sidekick: Invent and introduce a new character who would be a great support to the main character

  • Text - Write a bio of the sidekick that shows why he/she/they will help the main character
  • Image - Draw a model of the perfect sidekick with labels that show what he/she/they will bring the the story
  • Video - Film a video as if YOU are the character's sidekick, describing how you're going to help the main character

Villain's Redemption: Imagine the villain as the hero - how did they get that way?

  • Text - Write from the perspective of the villain that shows how he/she/they see themselves as the "good guy"
  • Image - Create a mood board or timeline showing key aspects of the villain's personality
  • Video - Film yourself as the villain explaining how you're actually the hero in some way

Lost in a Book: You wake up in the book, so what's your first move?

  • Text - Describe your first move in detail - who's there, where are you going, what's your challenge?
  • Image - Create an illustration showing where you are when you wake up
  • Video - Film a skit showing how you navigate your new surroundings

Character Interview: Choose an appropriate publication and conduct an interview with one of the characters

  • Text - Write the interviewer's questions and the character's answers. Be sure to consider the perspective of the readers.
  • Image - Create the cover of the magazine or newspaper that will publish the interview
  • Video - Film a mock interview between the character and the interviewer

Cameo Crossover: Bring a famous character from another story into your book for a "cameo", a special role

  • Text - Write a scene with the two characters 
  • Image - Create a collage showing your new character in a setting in your book
  • Video - Film a book trailer showing how your famous character fits into a different story
 
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