Written by Melanie Range, a sixth-grade student at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park and a budding genius in the 826CHI writing program.
Pizza convinces people to eat it because it tastes good, you can use your hands to eat it, and its voice sounds just like a bossy grandmother. Obey your elders with today’s Groupon: for $22, you get a Chicago pizza tour from Slice of Chicago Pizza Tours (a $45 value).
Slice of Chicago Pizza Tours escorts walking tours to some of Chicago’s esteemed pizzerias. The two-hour tour explores three electrifying pizza outlets: Pizzeria Uno, Pizzeria Ora, and Giordano's. Learn about Chicago's longtime relationship with pizza, including their wedding at Navy Pier, the same place they shared their first kiss. Listen while the samples of different pizzas try to convince you they're the best, showing off their different crusts, cheeses, and sauces, and elbowing each other to get to the front of the line. During the 1.2-mile journey through the city center, tour-takers will enjoy a chance to make out with some of the Windy City's landmarks.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Writing Fiction
Instead of being based on real-life events, many of today's best-selling books are composed of what are conventionally known as “lies,” although the publishing industry prefers the handy euphemism "fiction." Because they are entirely made up, writing fictional books is extremely easy—just follow this handy guide:
Use at least three characters:
- Protagonist: The hero. In all books written thus far, the protagonist has been a sullen teenager, a swashbuckling duck, or car that can transform into a smaller car.
- Anti-gonist: The bad guy. Always the protagonist's twin father.
- Love Interest: Either a person or bag of gold that must be rescued by the protagonist.
Choose a type of conflict
- Man vs. Man: A man fights another man
- Man vs. Himself: A man fights his clone
- Man vs. Nature: A man fights some angry clouds
- Nature vs. Nature: Two angry clouds fight each other
Finish with a twist:
- It was Earth all along! Or conversely, it was space all along.
- All the characters were ghosts! And the characters that seemed like ghosts were actually mummies.
- It wasn't a book at all, but a helpful exercise VHS! That's why it was so fun to read!
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