Challenges
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Happy Thursday! Here’s your new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 15 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 50 words using the following five words in it somewhere: Here are you super stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: “List, twin, coma, pie,…
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Happy Monday, all! I hope you had a great weekend and this week is a good one. Your new limerick challenge is: YAWN Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word GUILT in it somewhere. You produced some fantastic limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: Guilt is a feeling quite painful Unproductive and…
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Happy Thursday! Here’s your new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 20 words using the following three words in it somewhere: Kim Smyth went a bit over the word limit, but it’s…
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Hello, everyone. Let’s all have a great week! Your new limerick challenge is: GUILT Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SANDALS in it somewhere. You produced some fantastic limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: I need to be really discreet When skipping alone in the street A slight hint of scandals…
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Hello, everyone. Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is: SANDALS Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPIDER in it somewhere. You produced some hilarious limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: A spider’s an eight-legged creature Whose four eyes are quite a neat feature. Some big ones are hairy,…
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This week’s Thursday challenge is a photo prompt. What comes to mind when you look at this photo? Let your imagination go! I’m happy to receive poems and stories – in the case of the latter, up to two hundred words. Here’s your prompt: Last week, I asked you to write a story up to…
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Hello, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. Here’s your new limerick challenge: SPIDER Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPAM in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Edgar Channing: I silence my mouth like a clam Whenever I hear the word spam. I send an email…
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I have to admit to being a little nervous about changing my Thursday word challenge after running a five-word challenge for so long. But you all embraced it and produced some outstanding stories. Your challenge for next week is to write a story up to 150 words, which starts with the following line: “YOU’LL NEVER…
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Hello, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. Here’s your new limerick challenge: SPAM Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SNEAK in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Edgar Channing: Sometimes the best thing is to sneak; Not fearfully, however bleak. Each year it gets harder Attacking…
Esther Chilton 