We blog for a million different reasons, but in the end, we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges are here to…
We blog for a million different reasons, but in the end, we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges are here to help you push your writing boundaries and explore new ideas, subjects, and writing styles.
To participate, tag your post with DPchallenge and include a link to this post, to generate a pingback and help others find the challenges. Please make sure your post has been specifically written in response to this challenge. We’ll highlight some of our favorites on Freshly Pressed on Friday, and in our monthly newsletter.
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How does the old saying go — girls are “sugar and spice and everything nice,” and boys are “snips and snails and puppy dog tails”?
Aside from not knowing what a “snip” is, I don’t buy it; we’re much more complex than lollipops and unicorns and toy trucks and frogs. This week, we want a window into the complexity that is you. We want your best recipes.
We don’t mean we want your best recipe for fried chicken (although we’ll take that, too — a good fried chicken recipe is always handy). We want the recipe for all the bits and pieces and quirks and foibles and loves that make you you.
For example, here’s my recipe:
MAIN DISH:
2 c. introversion
6 oz. organic wit (non-homogenized)
3 heaping tbsp. curmudgeonliness
2 1970s Black Sabbath LPs, finely chopped
5 afternoon naps
3 fl. oz. Scrabble addiction
2 dashes sappiness
Pinch of Doctor Who over-analysis
Olive oil to tasteTO GARNISH:
3 tattoos
1 nose ring
2 bushels curly hairINSTRUCTIONS:
Combine all ingredients in a claw-foot bathtub. Do not add olives, spiders, or misogyny. Stir until just combined. Let ferment for two weeks, until appropriately funky.Serve with a grain of salt. May weep if exposed to Steel Magnolias.
You can follow this format, or take it it any direction you’d like. Remove appearance entirely, or focus on it. Create more detailed instructions. Insert photos. Include past life experiences. Heck, you can even use the metric system.
If writing about yourself isn’t something you normally do on your blog, feel free to change the focus of the recipe. Draw up a recipe for one of your kids, a significant person in your life, or even for a particular experience that’s more up your blogular alley — we’d love to read your recipes for the perfect dinner party, book club meeting, or fishing trip.
Start measuring!
Ha! This may be the only recipe I can handle!
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Love the challenge
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a great inspiration and a hard act to follow.
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Challenge accepted!
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What a cute idea 🙂
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maybe the recipe for me will take more than 26 days before I can serve it.. love this challenge 🙂
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Awesome recipe you have there! Very creative!
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This is a very personal philosophical journey from the ‘Artist as Pilgrim’. I have only just discovered this recipe for self discovery. http://carowoods.com/2013/07/20/the-adventure-starts-here-establishing-some-ground-rules/
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It starts off sort of sad but it ends very happy:
http://www.buyerwawtch.com/
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Haha! Interesting and challenging! And the first 4 comments show what we can expect from the bloggers, I am excited. About both what I’ll discover when writing and reading. Challenger accepted, hell yeah!
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Love the challenge
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Hmmm… I’m not sure what to make of this challenge but then I guess that’s the point of them isn’t it? I’m thinking something like a technical drawing/cross section/instruction manual type thing (Haynes manual style) of life…
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Love it! Great interpretation. Can’t wait to see it.
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I love this challenge and think your recipe is brilliant – a great inspiration and a hard act to follow.
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Great idea I might just try it out!
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This is the loveliest, creativitiest (I know I know!) idea I have ever seen. It’s going to be real fun to read through the entries.
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I love this one. I want to start right now and there already are so many ideas spinning in my mind!
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A standard recipe would be a great post, but not too many people in my family would follow it anyway. So hopefully you will learn more about me through those pieces that are part of me.
http://theempathyqueen.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/a-cup-of-family-history-a-dash-of-love-and-a-pinch-of-crazy/
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Sorry about that – corrected link http://theempathyqueen.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/a-cup-of-family-history-a-bushel-and-a-peck-of-love-and-a-pinch-of-crazy/
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Yours will be tough to follow. I usually find other people more interesting. I’ll give it a go though.
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Reblogged this on koketso ramahotsoa photography Blog and commented:
This is true although we all have something different to say we all have a story to tell.
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A few lines to get you interested: “By a happy accident, ‘philosophy’ slipped into the cauldron in which raw good and evil were getting cooked at such high temperatures, the solution looked redder than what lava would look like if it was blushing”. 😀
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Read my recipe here: http://blackandwhiteheart.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/cooking-me-for-dummies/
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How to prepare a ‘serial traveler’: Recipe, cooking times and serving suggestions. http://wp.me/p1oMvI-4og
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It starts off sort of sad but it ends happy:
http://lifeofafallenangel.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/weekly-writing-challenge-how-to-make-two-whole-children/
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Recipe for Love – Fiction
http://thoughtsofalunatic.com/2013/07/22/recipe-for-love/
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My entry:
http://bloggingvogging.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/a-day-in-my-kitchen/
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I will give it a try 🙂
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Great challenge. http://lifeonwry.com/2013/07/22/recipe-for-life-on-wry/
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I loved this prompt!! It’s inventive, creative and totally original! As I write life with a chronic illness; I adapted the prompt and instead created a ‘recipe’ for a chronically ill person
Hope you enjoy it
http://brainlesionandme.com/2013/07/22/the-ingredients-of-being-chronically-ill/
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great challenge, I’m thinking of doing a recipe towards a different topic, maybe a perfect companion…
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I’m impressed that some of people already have this done! I think this is going to take me all week. Definitely a challenging one!!!
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Is your cauldron ready? http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/weekly-writing-challenge-how-to-make-a-me/
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http://suzie81.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/weekly-writing-challenge-a-pinch-of-you/
Love it!
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http://ourroadtohappiness.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/this-is-what-makes-us-girls/
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