November Writing Challenges

 

Monthly

Imagine you are married and you have friends who have a child. You and your spouse adopted the child because they lost his/her parents in an accident. You have cared for this child for a year. You found out that you can never conceive a child of your own. You discover that your friends were not the biological parents and a biological parent comes forward to claim the child....

 

or

 

Write a 20-line poem about your favorite meal and how much you enjoy it.

 

 

Weekly

Saturday, November 3, 2007

 

Write about a season

Write about someone who has enriched your life

Write a story as if you are a mental patient

Write a poem or short story with the title, Only a fool

Write a poem or short story with the title, Kissing the sunset

Write a piece based on the phrase if this is for me, why am I uncertain?

Free write

Saturday, November 10, 2007

 

Write a poem or short story with the title, Shadow & Light

Write a poem or short story with the title, Listening to the rain

Write a poem about hands of hope

Write a poem or short story about someone you know who would make a good lover

Write a short story about Underwater stones

Write a short story or poem about 3 am blues
Free write

 

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Write a poem or short story with the title or based on this phrase, I’m going home

Write a mad lib (they are available online to complete)

Write about your dream wedding

Write a poem or short story about a disastrous Thanksgiving

Write a poem or short story about a turkey that changes Thanksgiving (can be geared towards children)

A man, after the death of his wife, decides to clean the attic of the house where they lived for over fifty years. He discovers a small trunk in a far corner, under a pile of boxes.

Free write

 

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Write a story that contains the following items: a postcard, a torn shirt, and a camera
Write a story in which a friendship changes
Write a story that contains the line "We knew we could never get away with it"
Write a story that takes place near a bonfire
Write a story with the title "Pathways"
Write a story that contains the line "I found him/her lying in the snow"

Free write

 

Lyrical Monday

 

Write a poem or short story inspired by this quote.  Write about whatever the quote sparks, even if it means something completely different than the quote.

 

11/5/07

"... Hold me now, i'm six feet from the edge and i'm thinkin' maybe six feet ain't so far down..." Creed "One"

11/12/07

"... I took you for granted, so many years, I gave you no hope, broken promises, and tears ..." -- Randy Travis "Forever Together"

 

11/19/07

"...So take it easy girl you're falling through the night, your Mona Lisa eyes will comfort me the rest of my life..." Buckcherry "without you"

 

11/26/07

"... They were angels in waiting, waiting for wings to fly from this world, away from their pain ..." -- Tammy Cochran "Angels In Waiting"

 

 

Tuesday Temptations

11/6/07

Write a short story titled or about The calloused eyed

Write a poem titled or about A broken stone

 

11/13/07

Write a short story titled or about Disheveled petals

Write a poem titled or about Smothering dreams

 

11/20/07

Write a short story titled or about Child of silence

Write a poem titled or about Closed classroom doors

 

11/27/07

Write a short story titled or about late bloomers

Write a poem titled or about Seeds of silence

 

Wednesday Sparks

11/7/07

Write a poem about or titled as She still lingered

Write a short story about or titled as Under the stone bridge

 

11/14/07

Write a poem about or titled as Ancestral seeds

Write a short story about or titled as Yellow school buses

 

11/21/07

Write a poem about or titled as Dishelved letters

Write a short story about or titled as Pleasant tasks

 

11/28/07

Write a poem about or titled as Crumpled costumes

Write a short story about or titled as Fragments of yesterday

 

Tales from Thursday

Write either a poem or short story using the songs below

 

11/8/07

Chaka Khan~ Angel

Jill Scott ~ Hate on me

Trin-i-tee 5 7~ My body

 

11/15/07

 O-Town ~ the Painter

Dashboard Confessional ~ Vindicated

 

11/22/07

Taylor Swift ~ Tim McGraw

Starsailor ~ Four to the floor

Shania Twain ~ When you kiss me

 

11/29/07

Jill Scott ~I'm Not Afraid"

Trick Pony ~ "Every Other Memory"