A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in the comments.
Word Prompt
Shell
Challenge
The challenge is simple: each week you will be given an exact number of words you can use to write a poem or piece of prose. You can use any format or style you like; go wherever your inspiration takes you. The only rules are these:
- your poem / prose must contain this week’s word. The word does not have to count towards the exact word count total – it can be in the title, or the first letters of the lines of a poem can spell it out – you can be as creative as you want as long as it’s there somewhere.
- the length of your poem / prose must match the number of words stated in this week’s challenge. No more. No less.
Can’t wait to read what you have come up with!
Weekend Writing Prompt Year 1 Anthology – Check out the anthology so far here
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Looking for somewhere to submit your work – Whispers and Echoes, and online journal of short writing (poems in 10 lines or less, fiction in no more than 100 words) Issue 4 deadline: 22 September 2018
Find the full submission guidelines here
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thanks for the prompt Sammi. u squeezed the gap for us. here is my try.
https://syncwithdeep.wordpress.com/2018/09/15/shell-shock/
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I’m posting it her for you to read: “I am but a shell of myself. So clam up, would you?”
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Here’s mine, Sammi!
https://adelectablelife.com/2018/09/15/weekend-writing-prompt-72-shell/
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Here’s my entry, of a slightly different shell, perhaps, than some might immediately imagine.
https://naamayehuda.com/2018/09/15/no-case/
Na’ama
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A lesson in love at http://bobfairfield.org/2018/09/16/weekend-writing-prompt-72-shell/
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12 words! That’s almost cruel. I haiku-ed it. https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2018/09/16/shell
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A tough one this week!
https://bysarahwhiley.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/shell/
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