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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Hope you like mine! http://un13reakableyear.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/new-year-new-me/
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If you have ever been tempted to run down the street, untying shoe laces, swapping sunglasses and pinching crisps…http://isobelcompulsory.com/2013/01/15/turning-back-time/
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http://nishadsanzagiri.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/leave-whats-bitter-and-move-on/
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I have a small problem, as I don’t know how to do links, or pingbacks so that inhibits my taking part, in a public way at least, but it’s a great challange. Well done for coming up with it
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All you have to do for a pingback is just to tag your post as DPchallenge, and to turn a word into a link all you have to do is highlight the word, then touch the insert/edit link- icon. It’s the 10th icon on the row under the ‘Add Media’-button. You know where you have all your B-bold, I-italics etc. It’s the little chain link one. When you click it a little box pops up and you can just paste the internet address to where it says url. So to link back to this you would simply copy and paste: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2013/01/14/writing-challenge-starting-over/
Then you should have your post on the pingback list. 🙂
And if you want to insert a link into a comment box, like here, all you have to is copy and paste the address of your post here.
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Great challenge, as there are so many ways we “start over” in our lives.
http://freepennypress.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/the-gap-in-the-back-of-my-closet/
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Nice challenge. Here’s my entry: http://authormccloskeyspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-new-start-in-the-twilight-zone/
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I’m on it…
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My first entry, starting over http://sashandme.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/dp-challenge-starting-over-and-oh-yeah-my-first-post/
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Love challenges and Daily Prompts, always inspiring and intriguing! Here’s mine:
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http://theglowingheart.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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A prerequisite to starting over, is to get aware of the need to start over! This entry is about the lost sense of personal freedom, it’s an attempt towards making this world- a free world in true sense. 🙂 http://au1688.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/tag-please/
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I am not sure if multiple posts are allowed, I find another post (written long time ago) suiting the title.
Here it is: http://au1688.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/riposte/
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Here’s mine!
http://thelifeofathinker.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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And here is mine . . .
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Can’t help but think of John Lennon’s (just Like) Starting Over …
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http://mishuvass.com/2013/01/15/163-365-in-w24/
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Thanks everyone for the amazing response. I think there’s a year’s worth of reading here, after which we can all *cough* start again.
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Starting over it is. Thanks! http://positiveproductivebrothers.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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Starting over, with the end of winter. My heart went into this 🙂
http://allthosesmallthings.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/136-kinds-of-weather/
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Good challenge! http://travelingmarla.com/2013/01/15/starting-over-sugar-detox-day-1-no-excuses/
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Starting over without a father: http://memtolax.com/2013/01/14/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Here is my post for the prompt Starting Over
http://40again.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/while-i-was-waiting-for-inspiration-starting-over/
Dee
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My post – An Ode To Starting Over. http://alexanderhicks.com/2013/01/15/an-ode-to-starting-over-dp-challenge/
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Thanks DP Challenge for making my commute this morning a little less dull – here’s my story – one to make you laugh (hopefully!): http://elappleby.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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http://tranquilsigh.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
here my little effort on this interesting challenge. good fun!
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Im new to blogging and writing, have lots to learn but am excited about this new adventure. http://sudheerjoshi.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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Hey everyone. Here is my response to this writing challenge:
http://www.mydailydoseblog.com/wcso
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I am a bit late with my story but I hope it still counts …. Starting Over: Freeing My Inner Child http://aphrojunkee.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/freeing-inner-child/
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A hopefully funny take on new beginnings in ‘Luigi’s Fresh Start’. I always felt sorry for him in a way. That it must be hard being second best.
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All right, I’ve got a story kicking around that fits this theme. Sometimes you don’t get a choice – you have to start over, again and again and again.
http://kingdomofsharks.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/recursion-starting-over-whether-i-want-to-or-not/
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