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.
You can’t move for were-creatures these days. If it’s not werewolves falling in love with vampires, it’s were-rabbits, erm, doing what were-rabbits do (terrifying carrots by the full moon, perhaps?). But fantastic animal metamorphoses are as old as the hills, at least in the world of fiction, so who are we to be dissuaded by the vicissitudes of popular fiction trends when delivering creative writing prompts? Come, take a turn for the worst.
Those naughty biochemists have been busy again, and have accidentally released a powerful mutative toxin into the water supply by mistake. Result? People left, right, and center are transforming into the animals they most resemble (in character, or looks) by the light of the full moon. Tell us the tale of a human-animal transformation.
Enough Already?
If that’s fed the muse enough to get them to work, go, make with the genetic mutation goodness. If not, read on for more ideas.
A Toad By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
Think about who the transformation is happening to, and what it says about them. For instance:
- Is everyone turning into dead-eyed herd animals? Is this perhaps a satire on television habits? Or groupthink?
- Has a beautiful celebrity with an ugly personality transformed into a more fitting animal version of their true selves?
- Have your wildest animal-turning dreams come true? Or nightmares?
- Has not fitting in with the people in your school/office/town suddenly been greatly underlined by the fact that they look like lizards and you don’t?
- Have you always longed to take flight and move far, far away? Perhaps now you can.
- Has someone been ignoring their true feelings for so long that they’ve now taken irrepressible animal form?
- Or maybe it’s just that their feelings or circumstances are so strong that they’ve taken the form of some representative beastie?
- What if we turned this on its head, and a favorite (or feared) animal or pet, like your dear friend Mr. Schnoocums the kitty-cat, turned into a human by the light of the moon?
You decide.
The history of narratives about human-animal metamorphoses is a rich one, from folk tales and myths to schlock horror films and Kafka stories. Steal freely, or mash up old ideas to give them a new lease of life. But wait, the clouds are shifting, the full moon comes into view, the transformation is… URGH… <Eldritch scream>.
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I’ve been trying to experiment with mixing fiction and memoir, and this was a great opportunity to mix the zany with the facts–thanks!
http://thedrowningoctopus.com/i-didnt-fall-out-of-the-tree-i-jumped/
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Yay! A perfect chance to try our hand at collaborative fiction. Thanks, Daily Post! https://thequeencreative.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/of-a-feather/
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Ok, I hadn’t posted since January, so I took the challenge. Here’s a link to my post:
http://polypebble.com/2013/05/30/poly-metamorphosis/
Thanks for the encouragement!
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Here is my retake on an old Scottish Selkie tale….
http://breathofgreenair.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/ocean-spell/
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Heres my take on this weeks challenge… http://comfortablynumb7.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/writing-challenge-metamorphosis-old-faithful/ x Beth x
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Here’s my offering to the challenge. I LOVED it. Thanks so much for the fun topic 😀
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Let me sneak in this before the deadline. It’s a real blockbuster, http://wekcwek.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-spy-team-part-1/
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Here’s mine! http://nikkamichaels.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/creative-writing-challenge-metamorphosis/
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Mine is entitled “Donkey Tails”: http://humantriumphant.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/donkey-tails/
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Mine is a bit of a departure for me. I waffled on whether to include it. But I was so intrigued by the challenge and it ignited a memory for me that seemed to fit, so how could I not?
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Reblogged this on khaniedavid.
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http://ihadapearl.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/cwc-metamorphosis-or-mistakes-on-a-plane/
It’s the first writing I’ve done in over 10 years, so I really hesitated to publish it. I loved the prompt too much to resist though. Hope you like it!
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a night of troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect! (Not stolen, promise :P)
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took me a while but I really enjoyed this challenge
http://telltaletherapy.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/metamorphosis-the-end-is-beginning/
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http://afineprintblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/radioactive/
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Prince Charming- my piece for this challenge
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my entry: http://2timespink.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/dinner-by-the-moonlight/
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Brilliant writing prompt, this is my first time trying these out (I’m too late I think for challenge, but maybe people want to read?) Dedicated to my lovely fiancee http://forlackofpaper.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/free/
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http://Money4Refer.com/index.php?refcode=5228
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I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you so much for this challenge, I ended up writing a short 9 part fiction because of it and have now created a separate fiction section on my blog which I intend to write in at least once a month. I never really thought about writing fiction before but this has been fun and my friends have enjoyed reading the piece and have urged me on continually over the past couple of days to continue writing it so they could read what happened. So again, THANK YOU!!!
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Metamorphosis: the struggle between ego and conscience:
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Not sure if you’re still looking at these, but here’s a little metamorphosis dialogue poem 😀 http://withluck.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/metamorphisis-a-dialogue-poem/
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