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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http://charmedbyabstraction.blogspot.com/2013/01/starting-over.html
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Here’s my post about starting over with my mother.. Things I Wish My Mother Could Have Taught Me -> http://ladylebz.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/things-i-wish-my-mother-could-have-taught-me/
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http://whatbeautifuldisaster.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/rewrites/
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Thanks for the nudge.
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http://katesrepublic.com/2013/01/21/starting-over/
Here we go. My first time!
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Better late than never!
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I also got one, what about this http://puresketch.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/musings-this-week/
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Thought I’d give it a go:
http://literaryleftovers.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/hello-my-name-is/
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A little sharing on my take and share of starting over:
http://emoturtlet.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1053&action=edit
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