For some of us, blogging is personal. Others are trying to educate or entertain; many more are hybrids. Yet we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges help you to push your writing boundaries, show off your blogging chops, and, hopefully, spark more post ideas.
To participate, tag your post with DPchallenge or leave a link to it in the comments. (It would also be great if you could link to this post to encourage people to take part – the more the merrier!) Your post should be specifically written in response to this challenge. We’ll keep an eye on the tag and highlight some of our favorite posts on Freshly Pressed on Friday.
Making a new start is never as simple as it seems on paper. It’s easy to talk about losing a few pounds or giving up the job you hate to weave animal-shaped baskets on a tropical island, but less so to make it happen, and keep at it.
In this week’s writing challenge, we’re asking you to write a short piece of creative writing (fiction/poetry/prose poetry/freeform mindjazz/whatever floats your boat) on the theme of Starting Over.
Drop Starting Over on your page and see where it takes you. Or, if you need a bit more to go on, here are some more ideas to play with broken down into a handful of genres/approaches:
Poetry/Prose Poetry
- Winter’s end
- A new stage of life
- Moving on, up, down or sideways
- Picking at a scab
- Cherry blossoms in flight
Free Writing
- New Year resolutions: aftermath
- Where I’ve been, where I’m going, how they clash
- Overcoming it all
- You can never go home again
Horror
- Sometimes things don’t stay dead
- You can’t escape the things you’ve done
- House of echoes
- Consumed by the past
Science Fiction
- Hard reset
- Temporal disruption
- Dissolving identity
- Regime shift
Romance
- Back, out of the blue
- Swept away
- Discovering a new me
- Life after impossible love
Fantasy
- A New reign
- Burnt village
- After the quest
- Dark omen
LitFic
- You can never go home again
- Regret and remembrance
- Road trip
- The spiral down
Crime/Noir
- Old identity unearthed
- Revenger’s tragedy
- Aftermath of a heist
- The imperfect murder
As always, show us what you’ve got in the comments, or tag your post with DPchallenge.
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A slight cheat, as this was written a little while ago, but the subject matter matches this perfectly. Hope you like it. http://isimonfiction.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/thank-you/
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Awesome man. Really awesome.
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That’s very nice of you to say so, thank you.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you, you’re too kind 🙂
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Parts of this was written a while back, but most of it is new! Enjoy: http://wp.me/p32Aho-3Z (small link)
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You have a fantastic way with words. Very eloquent and engaging.
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That’s very kind, thank you. (I’m actually blushing now!)
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wow! (that best describes my response 🙂 )
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Thank you, that’s very kind.
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I am not usually comfortable with poetry – but this was very good and so spot on.
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Thanks very much for the kind comment 🙂
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Reblogged this on a mustard seed sur la route.
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From me
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So hilarious. And awful. Hawfularious.
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Right???
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Great post.
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Thank you
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I must admit to a cheat too.
After a recent encounter with some blog “stalkers”, I was forced in a sense, to change the whole nature of my blog. It was something that I deeply mourned and still do, however, as the challenge asks us to do, it forced me to push past my comfort zone. To change the tone and types of postings I authored. Below is the first post where I realize how to “beat” the stalkers. The second is one of my NEW posts, not the journal entry like posts of yore but something totally different. I have also been dabbling in poetry too! http://iamanafterschoolspecial.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/an-ah-ha-moment-oprah-would-be-proud-of/
http://iamanafterschoolspecial.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/a-clockwork-orange-by-anthony-burgess-tale-of-personality-disorder-or-a-misguided-youth/
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Reblogged this on Lola0714.
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Reblogged this on Queenie and commented:
This is great idea that is why I have reblogged it and I so want to write something! I will see if I can squeeze it into my teaching week! X
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Reblogged this on cftc10.
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I do hope I did something readable?? … Thanks for everything and you will be able to read my “novel” here:
http://www.starhouse.nl/star6/?p=25
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__▂▃_▅▆▇███▇▆▅_▃▂ Daniel says it’s good to start over
http://myblogexactly.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/starting-over/
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New Year is almost like a new beginning In the Garden.http://wp.me/pvxC1-2Y1
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Here’s my submission. I wrote a poem today about the last two years of my life. Hard to fit it all in one poem. lol:-) Please enjoy “I Opened My Hand And Let Go”
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see link below. sorry
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Here’s my submission. I wrote a poem today about the last two years of my life. Hard to fit it all in one poem. lol:-) Please enjoy “I Opened My Hand And Let Go”
http://wp.me/pvNyA-2iX
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This is a beautiful coincidence that my blog is titled ‘Starting over’.. 🙂 If it were up to me, I would submit my entire blog as an entry to this challenge, but I am anyway posting my new entry..
http://www.maddyspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/weekly-writing-challenge-starting-over/
Please also check out my first ever entry on this blog: http://www.maddyspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/only-if-life-was-a-pencil-writing-on-paper/
thanks..
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Hopefully you will consider this a fit. It is just a short piece and photo by a girl struggling with mental illness. To me this represents the ultimate starting over – breaking free of mental struggles, and for her self harm and low self esteem.
http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/torn-apart/
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Interesting challenge….
http://backinthecityblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/starting-over/
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This sounds exciting. =) It’s a great list to keep for writers for the rest of the year actually.
Thank you very much for the challenge.
Lila
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Reblogged this on jackiewriting.
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I find poetry so much harder than anything else to put up why is that? http://ooplalund.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/papatuanuku/
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Starting a new chapter in life:
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Okey-dokey — Here’s my take on “Starting Over.”
http://sandraconner.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/daily-post-writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Starting Over: A Mother Who is Overcoming it All Through Her Blogs
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Starting over, a poetic view to my future life:
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Thanks, great advice here and gave me the inspiration for a post for today! http://thewhyaboutthis.com/2013/01/14/being-a-blogger-today-its-all-about-creating-connections/, again thanks so much, Penny
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My little say,
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Starting Over Challenge
http://livinglifeforward.net/2013/01/14/new-years-resolutions-the-plan-the-aftermath/
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The conclusion I’ve come up with about ‘Starting Over’ http://untilmyheartexplodes.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/changes/
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Here’s my attempt. Rather please with this one 🙂 http://fourpartsoftheone.com/2013/01/14/starting-over/
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yay for starting over in life. https://rippleswritings.wordpress.com/
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http://lifeundetermined.com/2013/01/13/dating-again/
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