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.
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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 – Read for free here
Sammi Cox 
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I posted the link to my story but it’s disappeared.
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63 words! This was a fun one 🙂
https://tinastewartbrakebill.com/2018/10/13/unlock-her-heart/
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Cool bananas. Here’s mine:
https://naamayehuda.com/2018/10/13/time-to-unlock/
Na’ama
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Thanks for the prompt! Here is my entry –
https://ramyatantry.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/pandoras-box/
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Thanks, that was fun. I needed that really bad. I have been in a funk so to speak.
https://lelandolson.com/2018/10/13/unlock-it/
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Thanks for the writing prompt Sammi. I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from prompts, but couldn’t resist. https://vjknutson.org/2018/10/14/sleep-is-for-other/
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Namaste Sammi 🙂
How are you? This my scratch and scrawl as submission for this week’s challenge. I’ve gone over the word count, sorry, disqualified from the off lol 🙂
~ Unlock ~ By~ Dewin Nefol ~
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Fifty years man and boy,
With no time left to serve,
He’d have got away with it
If he hadn’t lost his nerve.
~
A cat-burglar by profession,
He was master of his trade,
One last crime before time,
And retirement was made!
~
His mark chosen plans hatched,
Premises scouted checked watched,
Climbing atop said tower-block,
Safe cracked locks unlocked.
~
But then just as he was leaving,
A most peculiar feeling,
A premonition an omen a vision:
Haunting moments of in-decision.
~
100 floors up penthouse suite,
Dressed in a body wing-suit,
One step more he’d be free,
His future an assured certainty!
~
But when at the edge ready to go,
He was overcome with vertigo!
He backed away fretfully pacing,
Cold sweat running heart racing!
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Never before in all his yore,
Had scaling-heights let him down,
He couldn’t breathe only wheeze,
Stars spun round-and-round.
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And that’s how they found him:
Cold confused and spent.
Lent against a closed air-vent.
Waiting for vertigo to go!
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But I think it worthy of mention,
Wing-suit was of bad construction,
Stitching poor it would have tore,
Long before he hit the floor.
~
Now fifty years later man and boy:-
Looking back upon his fate,
Still alive when he could’ve died: but,
Now at 80 life wasn’t so great.
~
And so it was upon release day,
Dressed in hand-sown sheets,
Standing atop an aerial walkway,
Ready to repeat past feats!
~
“My life is over my sentence done,”
“It’s been a blast lots of fun.”
“But now I’m tired quite overcome,”
“Ready to fly into the heart of the sun.”
~
There was a moment when we all sighed:
When those gathered hoped he’d fly!
But when he fell to his demise,
‘Through falling tears we watched him rise.
~*~
Thanks for setting the challenge. Have a wonderful week.
Take care. Namaste 🙂
DN
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Hello everyone. I combined and tried a tritina form of poetry in 63 words.
https://shiftnshake.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/unlocked/
Thank you for the prompt, Sammi.
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Not sure if my pingback worked. So just in case it didn’t:
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/10/14/reclaiming-love-lost/
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Here’s my take on the prompt:
https://thedarknetizen.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/flash-fiction-nemesis/
Happy reading! 🙂
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Forgot to pingback so… here’s mine!
https://adelectablelife.com/2018/10/15/weekend-writing-prompt-76-unlock/
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Here is my attempt.
https://wordpress.com/post/musingsofasouleclectic.wordpress.com/318
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