Below is the challenges for January.


January Monthly Challenges

A story about your character's New Year's resolution to change their sexual personality (example: If they used to be reserved, they turn into a wild animal, and vice versa).
or
Your character is in New York, counting down as they watch the ball descend, when...
(poem or short story)

or

Share some of your New Year's Resolution (poem or short story)

 

Weekly Challenges

 

January 6th

 

~Write a poem or short story about beginning

~Write about the top ten things you want to achieve in 2007

~Write about a simple pleasure

~Write about what people would find in your trash

~Write a poem or short story about the following phrase: 

There's no right way to do the wrong thing

~Write a poem or short story about finding your inner strength

~Free write

 

January 13th

 

~Write a poem or short story about traits you got from your mother

~Write a poem or short story about someone who leaves 

their family and does not return for a long time

~Write a poem or short story about when you are most at peace

~Write about habits you want to stop in 2007

~Write a short story about what happens to a hero

 or heroine after the adventures are done

~Write a poem about remodeling one's life

Free write

 

January 20th

 

~Write a poem or short story about traits you got from your mother

~Write about the last time you laughed at yourself

~Write a poem or short story including a bird, parting of company,

fight, meeting of people & something sleeping

~Coincidences happen all the time?

~Sometimes we have to make them... Write about a tough choice

~Write a short story with the opening lines: Beverly sat her valise on the table.

That's when she saw the note delicately inserted in the silk centerpiece. 

~Free write

 

 

January 27th

~Write a murder scene

~Something is from the museum, what is it? What happened

~Write a poem or short story about a woman making

 love when her infant awakens and cries

~It's midday, there are no clouds, but the sky is growing darker

~Write a poem or short story with the title, "I'm still standing"

~Write a romantic scene

~Free Write


 

Tuesday Temptations

January 2nd

The Last time

Write a cinquain with a spring theme

 

January 9th

Write a story about something broken

Through her eyes

 

January 16th

Write a story with this line: "It's time to put father in a rest home.

This is obvious to all except him"

The Crispy critters came out of the oven...

 

January 23rd

The mist in the crystal ball swirled until...

Still the one

 

January 3oth

Peak top Prayer

Teach me to whisper


 

Wednesday Sparks

January 3rd

Unsent Letters

Gentle Whisper

 

January 10th

Written on your face

Write a story with the title

"Silent Conversation"

 

January 17th

This mother's work

Days of Wine and Roses

 

January 24th

Stealing midnight stars

My porcelain tears

 

January 31st

Pieces of You

Drops of desert rain

 

 

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