Word Challenge

Write a Drabble?

October 9, 2011

What’s a drabble? A drabble is a fiction story that’s exactly 100 words long. via TheRecord – Winners named in WLU drabble competition. My brother has always been part of my life. Years of co-conspirators, fart jokes and hockey against the garage door. One day he became a man, not my same old brother any [...]

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One Word – Shape

March 21, 2011

One Word – The word for the day was “shape”. You get a minute to write whatever comes into your head. How much you write depends on how fast you type and how much you think of while you still have time to type it. I was impressed with my lack of typos. I must [...]

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The Graham Greene Challenge

August 9, 2010

I read about the Graham Greene Challenge on Fuel Your Writing. It’s a 500 word challenge, but not just writing 500 words as a short story and then stepping away, done. Graham Greene’s challenge was to only write, exactly, 500 words of the manuscript/ book he was working on and then walk away to leave [...]

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The 1,000 Word Challenge

November 24, 2009

You may not be doing so well with NaNoWriMo, or NaBloPoMo or even IComWeLeave, but… you can do a thousand word post on your blog. It’s a one shot deal. Think of it as 5 groups of 200 words, or 4 groups of 250 words and it doesn’t really seem that bad at all, right? [...]

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