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 tie-in to a story I posted last week and my entry for this challenge
http://thementalattic.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/fresh-start-prelude-to-the-illusionist-friends/
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Inspired by my many failures at pole vaulting that will not end anytime soon…=)
http://writeitreal.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/just-start-over-short-story/
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guccifab101.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/starting-over-picking-yourself-up-when-things-fall-apart/
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Here’s mine 🙂 http://thecurseofthesingleparent.com/2013/01/14/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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http://chikawithyeneyes.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/copping-with-miscarriage-2/
Here’s my link which is full of drama. I’m over it and yeah I’m fine.:)
Have a good one and God Bless y’all,
Yen-Yen
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Starting over…daily:
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Starting over after my father’s passing – http://memtolax.com/2013/01/14/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Inspired by my time in a mental hospital about 20 years ago. It was cathartic writing this, and I feel brave for publishing it. Thank you for the challenge
http://stephrogers.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over-a-journey-back-to-reality/
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from me :http://amandeepmittal.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/heathcliff-to-katherine-a-poem/
hope you like it!
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Starting Over Challenge:
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This is my starting over post written almost a year ago to the day! This means a lot to me because it was so hardest , yet the easiest post to write (if that makes any sense)…
http://hondurangoddess.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/same-book-new-chapter/
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Tempting… but I think an abrupt change to fiction might scare some of my readers 🙂
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Starting over challenge.
http://fortyoneteen.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over-an-intolerance-to-resolutions/
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Nice!
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Whoops, that last was a reply to another reader. Here’s the link: http://wp.me/p32Aho-3Z (short link)
I hope you like it! I also tagged it under WPchallenge
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This is my entry
http://bettygeneric.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/starting-over-dp-challenge/
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http://usualbits.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/starting-over/
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Here is my entry….
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I fell in love with a man who didn’t exist.
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nasıl bir yanıt deneme yanıtı olabilirmi
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Hope we didn’t have to list the specific genre.
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Here is mine.
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Enjoy!
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Reblogged this on Mae Creates Handmade: Inspired by Life and Nature and commented:
I will definitely be doing this writing challenge!! Starting this week!! Starting over.
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This was pretty tough. I haven’t written creatively in a while–I love doing it but I’ve been short on time–and this is my first attempt in a few months. I hope it fits! If it doesn’t, at least it was something to get me going again.
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A short, but vivid poem about starting over.
Enjoy!
-M.M.
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This was the first time I’ve ever written fiction! I’m so excited and would really love feedback.
It’s called, “Starting Over: When Zombies Date.”
http://thelifeofkylie.com/2013/01/14/starting-over-when-zombies-date/
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Here’s my post/story, hope it works.
http://dkoeker.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/coming-back-from-almost-death/
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Oop, there has been an error. Updated URL: http://dkoeker.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/coming-back-from-almost-death-2/
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Here’s my submission: Starting Over- Returning http://mydiffer3nce.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over-returning/
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I am done, I have been writing this off and on for hours. For my Starting Over
here is the link. http://connieemeraldeyes.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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