Questions Before Accepting The One Chapter Challenge 🐄

The One Chapter Challenge is a beta storytelling experiment by Mezel Studios and EBCHATS. Writers submit one short chapter. If selected, the story is transformed into a mobile EBCHAT experience with a shareable link.

Writers, novelists, storytellers, Wattpad-style writers, fiction authors, memoir writers, bloggers, creators and anyone with an original one-chapter story can participate.

No. You do not need to be published or professionally trained. The challenge is about whether your story can capture attention and make readers want to keep reading.

You may submit romance, fiction, drama, mystery, fantasy, faith-based stories, comedy, memoir, suspense, personal stories or any other original one-chapter story.

Yes. Your story can be fictional, inspired by real life, or based on a personal experience, as long as it is original and you own the rights to submit it.

This beta is designed to test a simple question: can one chapter capture enough attention for readers to unlock and keep reading? Keeping it short helps us validate the format faster.

During this beta, stories should be told by one narrator to keep the EBCHAT experience simple, personal and easy to transform into a tap-by-tap mobile format.

No strict character limit is applied during this beta. However, the story should be written in short lines and short moments because EBCHATS are experienced one tap at a time.

Our team reviews your submission. If selected, your story may be adapted into an EBCHAT experience and you may receive a private review link before publication.

Yes. You remain the original author of your story. By participating, you grant EBCHATS and Mezel Studios permission to adapt, publish, distribute and monetize the selected EBCHAT version according to the challenge terms.

Yes. If your story is selected, you authorize EBCHATS and Mezel Studios to use the public profile photo from the social media, author page, website or Wattpad profile you provide as the narrator image for your story.

Yes. That is one of the benefits of this beta. If your selected story generates paid unlocks, you may earn revenue from those unlocks according to the program terms.

Yes. Selected writers receive access to a dashboard where they can view story activity, reader engagement, paid unlocks and accumulated earnings.

Writers may request payment once their accumulated balance reaches US$100. To receive payouts, writers must maintain a valid Stripe or PayPal account capable of receiving international payments. Payout requests may be submitted at any time after reaching US$100. Accumulated balances currently do not expire during this beta program.

You can share your EBCHAT link on Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Wattpad profiles, Medium, Substack, newsletters, blogs, websites or writing communities.

No. This is a beta experiment. EBCHATS provides the format, link, dashboard and monetization tools, but results depend on the quality of the story, reader interest and how actively the writer shares the link.

We do not allow pornography, explicit sexual content, vulgar hate-based content, illegal drugs, graphic violence, weapon promotion, criminal activity, hate speech, religious attacks, occult promotion, harassment, exploitation or other inappropriate content.

The One Chapter Challenge is part of the beta road toward the planned 2027 launch of THE MOOO and EBCHATS creator programs.