Well folks, I’m back with a very fun post today… and, of course, it involves everyone’s favorite luckless 17-year-old, Emma Lenford.

Now, first of all, it you don’t know who Emma Lenford is, let’s get that covered and out of the way…

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Emma Lenford is also notoriously prone to bad luck. I mean, she’s constantly kidnapped, held at gunpoint, and even arrested for things she honestly didn’t even do. So, yeah, it’s a rough life for poor Emma… even if she does take it all on with a sense of humor.

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Now, assuming you are well-acquainted with Emma Lenford, let’s get on with today’s topic… MAD LIBS!!!

Mad Libs is a word game that consists of a player entering prompted words or phrases (for example, an adjective or a type of greeting) into an otherwise pre-made story. The results, typically, are quite humorous.

Mad Libs are awesome, I personally like to think, and I remember doing them in super old hand-me-down books I got from my sister as a kid. And, naturally, I just had to skip over all the pages she already did… and I sometimes got left with the task of finishing all the semi-boring stories. Because, let’s be honest, not every Mad Lib is created equal. Sigh.

However, today, I want to bring you a totally unique Mad Lib that I created myself! And I can promise that it totally won’t be boring.

Because… the story is completely spoken in the words of the great Emma Lenford. So, even if I technically wrote it through her character… I am not responsible for any madness that ensues after reading it; my fictional character is!

Now, below, you’ll find a fully interactive version of the Mad Lib I created, embedded with CodePen. I recommend you try this out so that you can type your answers directly into the game and get a story created instantly!

However, if the interactive game doesn’t happen to work for your device (it does use Javascript), you can also scroll down within this post and play along manually.

Enjoy the game, homedogs!

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Play the Interactive Mad Lib

Play the “Manual” Mad Lib

Mad Libs: Emma Lenford Style

Fill in the blanks, then match each number from the list above to its corresponding space in the story below. You can write down each number and your selected word on a piece of paper or in a typed document to help you remember your answers.

• An object: –(1)–
• A word ending in -ing: –(2)–
• Another object: –(3)–
• An animal: –(4)–
• A brand of breakfast cereal: –(5)–
• A type of eating utensil: –(6)–
• A color: –(7)–
• A type of profession (doctor, lawyer, etc.): –(8)–
• A type of food: –(9)–
• Your name: –(10)–

Your Story:

It all started with a/an –(1)–. And, actually, a few other things, like the –(2)– –(3)– that wouldn’t stop harassing me in the school parking lot… but, anyway, I thought that’d be the best way to start off the first chapter of my life, which we’re officially calling ‘A/An –(4)–‘s Life. Because, yeah, I’m a freak. Oh, and it’ll be on the National –(5)–‘s bestseller list, don’t you worry about that. Along the way in my story, I’m sure I’ll encounter some feral –(6)–s, a couple of –(7)– balls (though, no innuendos there, I promise), and a great deal of –(8)–s. Plus, my new so-called best friend, –(10)–, who didn’t even bother to show up after I called about a/an –(9)– emergency, is the one who wrote it all.

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Now, how’s that for a Mad Lib?

So, if you didn’t actually notice, this Mad Lib is based on the opening lines of the first book in the Emma Lenford series. And, if you’re curious enough to know, the very first line of the book is actually: “It all started with a dick pic.” But, I’m pretty confident nobody filled in the Mad Lib with ‘dick pic’ as their first object… or did you?

And, if you really enjoy reading things in Emma Lenford’s point of view, I encourage you to read more by checking out the Emma Lenford series for yourself!

PLUS… as a way to get you started in reading the series, I’m going to offer you the first book in the series for FREE! Both in e-book and audiobook forms, too! And, honestly, it doesn’t get much better than that…

I’d also love to hear your Mad Lib results in the comments below–just copy and paste your completed story so that we can all laugh together! You can feel free to let me know if there are any other good Mad Lib stories you’d like to hear in the future; we did a poetry prompt Mad Lib before, so check that one out if you have time.

On another note, creating my interactive Mad Lib with CodePen was super interesting for me. I actually love creating webpages from scratch, although it’s not really necessary these days since website hosting services have really made everything user-friendly and coding knowledge isn’t needed. However, creating this lil’ game with HTML from scratch helped me put my coding skills back into practice, so that was pretty enjoyable for me. I mean, user-friendly webpage builders help us do a lot of creation really quickly, but I still miss getting the chance to flex the skills I worked so hard in school to learn.

Now, go on and ‘lib’ it up!

–Kari