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 and join the challenges. Please make sure your post has been specifically written in response to this challenge. We’ll keep an eye on the tag and highlight some of our favorites on Freshly Pressed on Friday.
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A few weeks ago, we published a roundtable on humor writing, featuring some of your favorite funny bloggers. They gave great advice, offering pointers on everything from the importance of editing to combining comedy and tragedy (and of course, they revealed the critical gem that a monkey riding a dog is always funny).
Time to work out your own funny bone! This week, write about whatever topic you’d like, but go for laughs.
Poke fun at yourself, write a limerick, find the absurdity in a real-life situation, come up with some groan-worthy puns, sketch a comic, put some fictional characters in a farcical situation — all’s fair in comedy. If you didn’t see the roundtable, take a minute to skim it for tips and inspiration.
Want a little more guidance? Give one of these challenges a try:
Beginner: Open-Mike Night
- What was the last hilarious story or joke you heard? Tell it.
- Post a photo that never fails to crack you up.
- Write a funny haiku about a current event.
Intermediate: National Tour
- What was the last embarrassing thing that happened to you? Write about it, and find the funny in what happened.
- We all have a quirky friend or relative — write up a character sketch of a funny person in your life.
- Write about a comedy of errors — a time when things kept going very, hilariously, wrong. (Go fictional if you’d like!)
Advanced: Summer Comedy Blockbuster
- Locate a small monkey, and post a video of it riding your dog.
- Write about a sad or particularly difficult situation you faced, and find the levity in what happened or how you dealt with it.
- Try your hand at satire — parody a public figure, expose the flaws in a situation or thing you find ridiculous — without devolving into outright mockery.
Ready to go? Make us laugh! Remember to tag your post with DPchallenge so we don’t miss a chuckle.
What about a dog riding a monkey? Comedy gold or too much?
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We’ll never know unless you try!
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~ Or a monkey riding a dog? Nice one! 🙂
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I figured I better participate with something more than a smart a$$ comment.
I don’t have anything for Open Mike NIght, but being a Peeping Tom’s peep-ee is humorously embarrassing enough for the National Tour: http://feitcanwrite.com/2013/05/22/my-day-so-far/
As for the National Tour, I have a whole category of Reject satire (http://feitcanwrite.com/category/rejects/) as well as reviews of two of the stupidest products ever made (http://feitcanwrite.com/2012/12/31/the-stupidest-product-ever-made-or-how-to-waste-14-99/ and http://feitcanwrite.com/2013/04/29/the-second-stupidest-product-ever-made-or-how-to-ruin-your-smartphone/)
Okay, that’s enough shameless plugs for one comment.
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Hi Feit,
Hopefully, your question can now be properly answered and highlighted by the post at http://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/soundeagle-in-debating-animal-artistry-and-musicality/.
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If THIS isn’t funny, I don’t know what is.
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You’re the bestest.
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~ Here’s an old post of mine, my About page. I am serious when I wrote it but friends and some bloggers told me and sent me a mail saying my About page is funny. What may be funny for you may not be funny for me and vice versa. But then I guess, if the general public thinks that something is funny, maybe it really is! I hope I’d get there someday. Here goes: http://thelurkerslist.wordpress.com/about/. Cheers! – Bliss, The Lurker’s List 🙂
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Here is my entry for this challenge
http://shotwithmyphone.com/2013/07/08/grow-your-girlfriend-cant-get-a-date-grow-ur-mate-funny-iphoneography-photography-odd-nyc/
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For my first try, I’m not sure to be funny. What do you think ? http://icezine.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-best-medicine-weekly-writing-challenge/
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My blog is humor about 80% of the time. May I submit 5 entries this week?
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People often give the challenges multiple goes — after all, the point is to encourage writing. The more the merrier!
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My second entry, an essay inspired by a toilet I saw in an Airport 🙂
http://garlandofwords.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/when-geeks-design-toilets-funny-dpchallenge/
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Reblogged this on Foil & Phaser and commented:
For those who don’t know, The Daily Post from WordPress.com offers daily and weekly writing prompts. While primarily for bloggers, you never know what will stimulate you imagination. You can follow The Daily Post by email, RSS, or through you WordPress Reader.
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Here’s the first entry.
http://bumblepuppies.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/writing-rules-insult-our-intelligence/
There will be another tomorrow.
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l love the funny ~ can’t wait to read everyone’s stuff.
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I’ve entered one today via ping back, but I thought you might like to read one from last week, on why us Brits should celebrate Independence Day too http://authordylanhearn.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/5-reasons-the-british-should-celebrate-the-4th-july/
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It’s all just a hoot …no, really …
http://teepee12.com/2013/07/08/weekly-writing-challenge-best-medicine-laugh-clown/
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A little poke at the Vatican with some Papal humor! http://dcmontreal.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/pope-francis-fast-tracks-saints-2/
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Here’s my attempt…I hope you all enjoy!
https://good2begone.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/poor-listening-skills/
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What’s better than the daily update from your favorite cashier? I don’t know. Think of something! http://rasegal.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/hannaford-update/
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“Doctor Ivo’s Floating Orthopaedics” is an incredible true story. The doctor is crazy. Operates at night in his bathing suit, uses razorblades and tissues soaked in alcohol. For anaesthesia: shots of rum…..read on http://www.thelifenomadik.com/doctor-ivos-floating-orthopedics/
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This was good – challenging but good. Here’s my three pennies worth http://auroramorealist.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/dp-challenge-the-best-medicine-disclaimer-this-post-is-not-my-fault/
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Couldn’t resist this challenge. Here’s my contribution: a recent post about expat children’s birthday parties: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2013/07/08/weekly-writing-challenge-humor/
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Oops. wrong link; that’s (sadly) funny in itself 🙂 Try again: http://multifariousmeanderings.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/the-expat-birthday-party/
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I’m in. I needed a break from my other writing, plus since I started writing this book thing I haven’t really written any content on my blog. Thanks for the inspiration! Here’s the link:
http://mycyberhouserules.com/2013/07/08/a-cut-and-a-massage/
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Show a little support (and maybe offer some words of wisdom, ha) to a newbie (at blogging, not at writing) =]
http://backslashawesome.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/if-you-read-this-youll-go-mad/
Don’t be worried by the name, I think the effects wear off
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I’m going to enter a humorous post from yesterday.
There may be another submission this week, as there are many stories from a week’s worth of camping.
http://maryjmelange.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/fishing-fuel/
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Here I try my hand at a little satire:
http://lifeofafallenangel.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/on-my-mind/
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OK, having fun with your kids is like shooting fish in a barrel, but you just can’t help it sometimes…
http://misanthropicorps.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/helping-out/#comment-428
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Here is one many seemed to enjoy, although my husband was less impressed! http://mythoughtsonapage.com/2013/06/30/my-husband-is-so-lucky-he-married-me/
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Thanks tric – I’m a runner myself, but haven’t had the chance to get out much lately. Perhaps the wife needs some practice…
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My attempt at some satire is linked: http://internationaleconomicmatters.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-most-technologically-advanced-country/ Hope you enjoy reading the post.
P.S. Great challenge idea!
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Yikes I posted that link in the wrong place. Perhaps my mistake was in itself humorous?
My link is http://mythoughtsonapage.com/2013/06/30/my-husband-is-so-lucky-he-married-me/
Sorry about that!
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My childhood legacy….
https://good2begone.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/the-triangle-buffoon/
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Dog. Monkey. Don’t over think. Just go with it.
http://blurtblog.net/2013/07/08/a-monkey-riding-a-dog-has-always-been-funny/
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Brilliance.
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bless you ma’am.
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Challenge us with this more often!! Here’s what happened today: “Bad Owie” http://wp.me/p3axt0-151
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Here’s my contribution: http://artifactsandfictions.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/wheres-the-humour-in-this-scenario/
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This is an edgy combination of humour and observation, based on family adventures.
http://vantoledo.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/warnie-kardashians-mp5s-cosmopolitans/
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