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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I was thinking I needed to work on some fiction anyway. Thanks for the challenge.
http://kamisbeautifulmorning.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/starting-over-a-little-piece-of-fiction/
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Thank you for your Daily Post. It is helpful and interesting. Here is my Starting Over post: http://allsparkledup.com/2013/01/17/the-bell-tree-and-how-i-came-to-terms-with-all-the-metal-in-me/
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One week old and I’ve got ‘bubbles’ – http://sidewayscrayon.com/2013/01/16/one-week-old-and-ive-got-bubbles/
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Am I allowed two? Whose writing tangible letters these days? ME!
http://sidewayscrayon.com/2013/01/15/writing-letters-the-old-fashioned-way/
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Finished! Can I go outside and play in the snow now?
http://redzeppelinblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/after-the-quest-unquiet-ground/
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My response to this week’s challenge: http://collinesblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/starting-over/
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It’s VERY short fiction:
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My submission for this week: http://ljdaluz.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/bells/
It’s a short fictional piece.
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here’s my response – a short poetry to “start over” again
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Thank you for the challenge! Moving with the mystery, here is my post offering titled Starting Over – My Unknown Life. http://myasibelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/starting-over-my-unknown-life/?preview=true&preview_id=839&preview_nonce=25ac97daf1
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Love this! How about a memoir-science fiction smash-up written in honor of my brother, who passed away 14 years ago? http://minnesotatransplant.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/are-you-telling-me-that-you-built-a-time-machine-out-of-a-life-boat/
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“At least once a day I remember my husband. Always at one o’clock.” http://joyandwoe.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/ten-seconds-of-silence/
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I’ve done it over and over. Here’s the story of my very first time. Hope you enjoy my story: http://hollysislandlife.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Hello, Lovelies! Firstly, your prompt gave me A LOT of ideas to last a few months! So, I combined two of them and present to you a story. Hope you like it.
Here’s the link: http://wp.me/p12ny0-2R
By the way, you are doing an amazing job, folks.
Love and respect, XOXOXO
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there we go 🙂 enjoy
http://wisforwriting.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/writing-challenge-starting-over/
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This is my first attempt at a Writing Challenge, and I thought my photo was appropriate! Thanks!
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here it is: my fictional story on writing…fiction. 🙂
http://writingthegirl.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/beginning-again-or-the-daily-post-weekly-writing-challenge-starting-over/
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Starting over is completely appropriate for this January. I wrote about it here:
I love the weekly writing challenges, so much. Thanks for keeping them going!
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Here’s mine – bit of a departure from the normal content on my blog, but I hope I managed to make it work: http://takingtotheopenroad.com/2013/01/17/starting-over-in-a-new-home/
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Feeling brave these days, for my Writing Challenge: Starting Over, I posted both a picture of myself and a poem. The first half explains, the second half is my creative writing. It’s both scary and exhilirating trying something new.
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A conversation about starting to write again after some negative feedback between my Writer’s voice and Inner Self. http://barefairy.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/the-voices/
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Love this idea!
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better late than never 😉 poem in honor of a sweet friend about to graduate and move to a new city: http://bethanymclellan.com/2013/01/18/for-emily-poetry-blog/
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I just started my blog three days ago, and this seems like a great way to get things going. Here goes! =)
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I just started my blog this month, so hopefully it gets the ball rolling!
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Here is mine:
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