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 Challenges:
November Monthly Challenge
I wanted the monthly challenge to be somewhat
Thanksgiving and somewhat different with that said...
This monthly challenges are:
Write a short story/poem about Thanksgiving. The
twist is make it a very memorable one.
For example, a wife's first Thanksgiving dinner or
a father and son going to hunt a turkey. Maybe
there is a start of a new tradition
Rules are simple
Be Creative...
And Enjoy
November
4, 2006
Write a poem and/or
short story inspired by the following famous phrase… “Just do it!”
Write a poem and/or
short story inspired by the following famous phrase… “There’s always
someone out there that has it worse that you.”
Write a poem and/or
short story answering the question… What are you thankful for?
Write a poem and/or
short story about a tough decision
Take song lyrics
and write a background story to tell the inspiration for the song
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title “Lyrical Minds”
Free write
November
11, 2006
Imagine the perfect
date and describe it in detail
Create a family
tree for your favorite fictional character
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title, “Abandoning Hope”
An ad in a
newspaper contained only two words, “Wanted: Dad” and a phone number. Who
would place such an ad?
November is
National Adoption Month. Write a short story, essay, or article using adoption
as a theme
Build a story with
this sentence, “It was the same dream from her childhood, Cara realized as
she awoke.”
Free write
November
18, 2006
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title, “Forgiven, not forgotten”
Write a short story
based on this sentence, “What’s he got in this thing, anyway?”
Promises are meant
to be broken. Tell a story about a promise that had been made and broken.
Dazzle us with facts, baffle us with embellishments ~ get creative
“Well, officially
that’s what happened, but the truth is…”
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title “The End Game”
Write a short story
based on the phrase, “Her car door was open, the window down”
Free Write
November
25, 2006
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title “Force of Change”
Write an epistolary
story (a story that consists of letters to oneself, to an imaginary other;
back and forth to someone)
Travel writing
~Take us somewhere we have not been
Include the
following words in a poem or short story: heart, Spring, Earth reproduction
Write a
children’s story with a Thanksgiving theme
Write a poem and/or
short story with the title “Crisis”
Free Write
Tuesday Sparks
11/7/06
Write a poem
with the title, Listen
to the Silence
Write a short
story with the title, Rich
Memories
11/14/06
“You’re always
were more trouble that you were worth.”
“The scent of
him lingered in the air, long after…”
11/21/06
Write a short story
with the title, Through his eyes
Mention all these
words in a short story or a poem that ends in a compromise: mechanic,
spaghetti, bathtub and stool
11/28/06
Write a short story
with the sentence, “Remind me not to do THAT again?”
Write a poem
with the sentence, “I know what you are thinking…”
Wednesday
Sparks
11/8/06
Write a poem with the
title, She’s got blue eyes and a cold heart
Describe what a
beautiful view is to you
11/15/06
Write a short story
with the title, “The Bridge across the sky”
In a public place,
find a set of people and tell us their story
11/22/06
Reflections in a
concrete pond
The Brink of madness
11/29/06
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