Questions students ask

Yes. There is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. We do not ask for your name.

In the browser on the phone or computer you are using, and nowhere else. If you change phones, your ticks do not come with you.

With two weeks, do two days’ jobs each day. With one week, do days 1, 3, 6, 13, 15, 16, 22 and 28, and tell the story out loud to a person every day.

There are four here that you may use. Check your competition’s rules about what kind of story is allowed.

Learn the first line and the last line exactly. Know the middle so well that you could tell it in different words. A story you know is safer than a story you memorized.

Stop. Breathe. Look at someone friendly, and say again the last line you remember. Most of the time nobody knows. More on the day itself.

An accent is not a mistake. Words the judges cannot understand are. Work on the ends of your words first.

The four on this site, yes: shorten them, change the names, set them in your own village. For any other story, ask your teacher.

Your competition decides. Ask your teacher for the limit and finish a little under it.