Tag: Writing Challenge

  • Read more: A Blue Bubba

      This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word blues. Definition: n. –  a song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat…

  • Read more: Broken Crowns

      This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word pour. Exactly 26 words.   Henry had been wrestling with this demon for years. Today, he’d found the strength to dump the last bottle of Crown. After just…

  • Read more: Eddie’s Underwear

      This week’s visual prompt for the Mutant 750 writing challenge is the image below. The word prompt is underwear. It was a wilder-than-usual Friday night at The Rubber Oyster. The place was packed. At 8:30pm, the waiting list was still…

    Eddie’s Underwear
  • Read more: Stereotyping

    This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the image accompanying this little piece, “Burnt Toast” by Rick Warren. Exactly 26 words. ** Bonjour! My name is Pierre. I am a French Toaster. You may think I can…

  • Read more: Company

      This week’s writing prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge are the words kitchen, squid, and shampoo. Exactly 26 words. ** “Did you know there’s a squid in the kitchen?”   “But it’s only Monday…” “Yeah, so?” “Usually he stops…

    Company
  • Read more: Making Room

    This week’s prompt at the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting  13 writing challenge is the word, imbue.   Exactly 13 words. ** Scotch-imbued but still in party mode, Bob wished someone would wring him out.      

  • Read more: The Middle-Aged Huerfano

      This week’s prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press are the words orphan and inherent. Exactly 39 words. ΠΡ Mom died the semester before I was to graduate from University. Somehow, she’d persuaded me to walk–so…