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Prompts & Challenges
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Since it's March 4th somewhere in the world...
Week One
Your Challenge—should you choose to accept it—
Write a short story in a second person (you, your, yourself) perspective.
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Your Prompts—
SONGS: found on Spotify & YouTube
Devil's Backbone - The Civil Wars
Thought Contagion - Muse
TEXT: snagged from Tumblr
“I can’t be held accountable for anything that comes out of my mouth.”
“I have known you less than twenty four hours and I’m already going to jail.”
PHOTOS: provided by Pinterest
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Week Two
Your challenge—optional, of course—
Write a short story that incorporates at least six senses.
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Your Prompts:
Songs
Someday - Pale Seas
Children's Work - Dessa
Text
“Luck and I? Not on speaking terms. Maybe in the future we will be.”
“I don’t know how to tell you this, but I can’t hide a werewolf in my backyard. I don’t even think I should try.”
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Week Three
Your Challenge—
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Your Prompts—
Song
Big Iron - Johnny Cash
Cold Cold Man - Saint Motel
Text
“I will always come back for you. We’re family.”
Hey, ever been in a helicopter crash before? Well better be ready to jump out or you’re going down with the damn thing.
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well I fORGOT TO WRITE IN THE CHALLENGE U G H
YOUR CHALLENGE, totally optional, is to include at least 3 words that are NOT in the language your story is written in. (I.e., if your story is in English, include 3 non-English words.) -
Week Four
(better late than never)
Your Challenge—write a short story without using character names.
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Your Prompts—
Song:
Big Houses - Squalloscope
Young Lady, You're Scaring Me - Ron Gallo
Text:
“I remember now. You gave up your mortality. What’d that feel like? Happiness? Excitement? Is there no regret?”
“I told you before all of this happened that I would never choose sides. You can’t make me go back on my word.”
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Week Five
Your Challenge—to write a short story set in the future.
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Your Prompts:
Song:
Sommarfågel - Wintergatan
The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco
Text:
“Can I just register a complaint on how cliche it is to bury someone alive? Really, I’m embarrassed.”
“These were, in fact, dark days. Of course, night is always a dark day, because night is just a badly-lit version of day.”
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Week Six, Month Two
Ah, a new header. Doesn't that feel nice? You've made it this far!
So it's only fitting that I throw another challenge at you—should you choose to accept it. Totally optional, of course. ;D
Write a short story from a non-human point of view. This can be an alien, an elf, a chair, a pencil, a dog, a dragon... Anything, so long as it's not human.
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And The Prompts Go On:
Song:
Blood // Water - grandson
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Text:
A telephone that rings at the same hour every night.
"We were infinite."
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Week Eleven
Your Challenge—should you choose to accept it—is to write a short story without any dialogue.
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Song
Necromancin Dancin — Bear Ghost
Apologize — OneRepublic
Text
"It's the middle of the day! We should wait for night fall to commence the grave robbing. Do you hear me?"
“If we’re assigning blame, then this is your fault for leaving me alone with explosives in the first place.”
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PROMPTS & CHALLENGES
Week 13
Your Challenge—to write a short story that takes place over a number of years.
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Song
I Believe In A Thing Called Love — The Darkness
I Ran (So Far Away) — A Flock of Seagulls
Text
“Am I a human being? Maybe. Am I a good person? Definitely not.”
“Maybe, maybe one day. I’ll free you. Maybe one day I’ll let you go. But for now, you’ll stay here. With me. And we’ll be happy.”
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