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 very rewarding post to write. Thanks for the challenge.
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I’ve been thinking about how badly I need to restart a relationship I’m in. It’s a little like rebooting a computer–I need to simply let go and turn it back on again from the beginning. Here is the post: http://wp.me/p2Hs5Y-73
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fresh off My press 🙂
http://bodhisattvaintraining.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/when-one-door-closes-or-you-wish-it-would/
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Decided to do something different with this and used the title as a start for some haiku http://diaryofasadwidow.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/starting-fresh-haikus-for-a-cold-january-day/
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Here is my response to the writing challenge. Enjoy!
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http://www.mydailydoseblog.com/wcso/
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Fun challenge
http://ladylovelyblogger.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Wow, the response here is incredible! I think I’ll start reading a bit before participating…and there’s a alot to read!
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cheers to fresh starts: http://jennyslark.com/2013/01/15/starting-over/
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Why Starting Over is a Good thing 🙂 http://misserinterese.com/2013/01/15/why-starting-over-is-a-good-thing/
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Starting over with an eraser:
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http://yolanda0118.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/cant-go-back/
I decided to do it from the angle of a woman looking to start over fresh, but her irresistible ex make her realize that doing that isn’t going be as easy as she thought.
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Try this link guys
http://yolanda0118.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/cant-go-back/
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Hey, sorry for telling you, but the link to your post seems to be broken… 😦
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I finally got it right.
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Here goes:
http://thetaskmistress.me/2013/01/16/starting-over-unhealthy-detour-ahead/
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Thanks for the challenge!
Best, Bill
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Mine is a short piece of creative writing entitled, “Winged Memories”
I’ve been gone for awhile so this is my first post after almost 2 months? And my first for 2013. Here goes! 😀
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http://bluerosegirl08.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/day-230-follow-the-yellow-brick-road-or-home-leaving-and-coming-back/
my 2 cents
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Here’s my offering: http://culturallife.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/weekly-writing-challenge-starting-over
It’s a short piece of creative writing, set in Mexico. I need more practice at creative writing because my story doesn’t really go anywhere. But I enjoyed working with the imagery of the migrating butterflies. And practice makes perfect, so they say. 🙂
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http://lilyrose1212.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/writing-challenge-starting-over-the-surpise/
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All you need is love.
~John Lennon
http://wordswewomenwrite.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/weekly-writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Enjoy the view from my shower!
http://angieinspired.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/tmi-in-the-shower/
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It can’t be done:
http://irvent.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/weekly-writing-challenge-starting-over/
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how do i get my piece in the trackbacks & pingbacks list?
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Just leave a link to this post in yours!
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This challenge actually came at a great time for me. I walked into work Monday to find that my boss had been fired and a major corporate reorganization was in the works! What else could I do but erase my whiteboard and get ready to start over… http://stilettomomma.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/wiping-the-whiteboard-clean/
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A great, contemplative challenge that led me to the realization I, as a writer, spend virtually every day ‘starting over.’
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My own effort at this week’s challenge:
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Awesome prompt! Thank you for the blessing! I had a beautiful cry to work after reading the prompt:
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