Home Improvement Stories

Submit Your Story and Win!

Have you ever had a funny thing happen as you work on one of your do-it-yourself projects? Maybe you have a story about a crazy contractor. Or perhaps you have some unbelievable tale to tell that happened as your new home was being built. Enter it below and I will give you your choice of one of my EBooks or a Monthly Pass into my Premium AsktheBuilder.com website.

Your story needs to be true, original and at least 500 words in length.  It also needs to be written in proper English much like you see in newspapers and magazines. The stories need to be written so they need little or no editing.  So what does that mean?  Well, here is what I am *not* looking for:

if you rite lik this i will not accept it. dont bother wastingyourtime if u write like this and don't no how to use the key that makes capital letters.  ALSO DON"T SCREAM AT ME AND USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

But before you start writing, you need to know the rules.

Helpful Writing Tips:

• You can type your story below in the large box or you can paste it into the box in case you created it using Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or some other word processing program. If you use one of these programs, be sure spell checking and grammar checking are turned on. Spelling, grammar and punctuation need to be perfect or nearly perfect. Typographical errors need to be fixed as well. Just use common sense.
  
• Do not use bold type, italics, colored text, etc. as you write. All of that formatting will get lost when you copy it from your word processing program and paste it in the large box below.
  
• Write as if you are talking to a friend over the fence.
  
• Be sure your story makes sense. That just means you need to explain things clearly, since the rest of us were not there to see and hear what happened.

Good Luck! I can't wait to hear about your experiences. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at tim @ askthebuilder.com (remove the spaces around the "@"). 

Collect your thoughts and start writing now. Fill out the following fields below to enter. Remember, by clicking the Submit button below, you agree that you have read the rules, understand them and agree to all conditions.