Welcome to Five Word Weekly. This week is a tribute to those who gave their lives for the freedoms we all enjoy. November 11th known as Veteran’s Day in the United States and Remembrance Day throughout the British Commonwealth including my home in Canada. The Armistice Treaty was signed in the early morning of November 11th by Germany and the Entente. All hostilities ceased at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month in 1918. Although the fighting ceased The Great War would not officially end until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 29 June 1919. Today we mark the end of hostilities with 2 minutes of silence at 11am. More than ever, we need reminding that our way of life is precarious at best and despite our differing opinions our democracies are worth preserving at all costs.

Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.

Here are your prompt words for the coming week:

gangrene | monument | hero | battlefield | pinned

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.

Rules and Guidelines

• Use as many of the weekly words as you see fit as long as each work contains at least one prompt. You can view the definition of each word at Merriam-Webster by clicking on the word in the text bar located below the word image.
• If writing multiple pieces, it is recommended (but not essential) that posts be published throughout the week keeping the daily volume of material manageable for your readers. Spreading out the posts will provide continuous content for your blog that will attract multiple visits and develop regular readers. Writing the prompts as a serial should supercharge that effect.
• There are no constraints to style (prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, etc…) or length but please try to keep it to something in the flash fiction realm. Nobody is getting paid here so save the novels for your publisher. Brevity is the key to success.
• You can use any variation of the words including different forms of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc…), varying definitions (i.e. hibernating bear or bear weight but not homophones like bare necessities), plural forms, tense, etc…
• When posting to your blog please add a pingback (link) to the Five Word Weekly challenge post and include the tags #gb5ww and #gmgblog on your post.
• If you prefer, you can submit your work directly to the Five Word Weekly comments section however links to your submission will not appear in the FWW roundup on Greg’s Blog Sunday Digest.
• Tell the world. It would be greatly appreciated if you shared the Five Word Weekly challenge post to your social media accounts.
• Post submitted to the Five Words Weekly challenge may be included in a weekly roundup post at Greg’s Blog and may appear on the Five Words Podcast currently in development. It is understood that all written works remain the property of the author.

Please reach out if you have questions or feedback about this challenge or anything of the content presented on Greg’s Blog.

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