Category Archives: Challenges

Five Word Weekly Challenge (2349)

Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). 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:

rain | route | ascend | seminal | desire

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.

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Four Line Fiction (2348)

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Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. This is the third installment since its return and the image this week is extremely compelling as is the story that accompanies it. The concept for the challenge remains the same. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. Without further adieu, this weeks image…

November 12th, 1833 is known at “The Night the Stars Fell.” On that night a meteor shower blanketed North America with an astonishing display. One Illinois newspaper described the sky as “being ablaze” another from Alabama eloquently described the event as “Thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” It is estimated some 72,000 meteors fell from the heavens per hour. Today we know the November meteor event as the Leonids. It occurs as every year as Earth passes through debris left in the wake of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. The display peaks in intensity every 33 years though none have rivaled the 1833 event.

This week’s image is taken from a hand drawn newspaper image from the period. The image shows settlers from a small town looking up into the heavens as shooting stars fill the night sky, like rain falling from above.

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2348)

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Here are your prompt words for the coming week:

gold | cloudy | slumber | unicorn | rainbow

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2347)

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Here are your prompt words for the coming week:

trap | sensuous | calibre | venom | circle

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Four Line Fiction (2346)

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Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. It has been difficult to keep up with this feature that disappeared mid-summer. I brought it back two weeks ago as a bi-weekly but with a promotion at work and other commitments it is dropping two days late this week. My apologies to all those who follow along. It will return to its normal Tuesday 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) time slot two weeks from now.

The concept is the same. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.

This week’s image depicts a storefront at night. The first letter of store’s sign is not working while the remaining portion of the blue illuminated sign poses the question “ARE FEET SHOES?”

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2346)

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Here are your prompt words for the coming week:

gumption | master | jump | lackluster | endive

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2345)

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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

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Four Line Fiction (2344)

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Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge re-launch. It has been difficult to keep up with this feature that disappeared mid-summer. I am bringing it back but will now run every other week in the same 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) time slot. The concept will be the same as previous. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.

^{Image: Abandon Houses / Abandon, Decaying and Forgotten Group – Facebook}

This week’s image depicts a abandon home slowly decaying into its surroundings. The monochromatic scene is offset by red 1960s/70s style Volkswagen Beetle windows busted out and rusting in the foreground.

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2344)

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Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of 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: