Prompt table challenge starts today
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Welcome to Worderlands' September challenge: a prompt table challenge with one prompt per day. You can find the prompt table (and code to copy it into your own journal) below.
The challenge is pretty straightforward:
Write stories (or a single story, if you're wanting a bigger challenge) based around each prompt. So long as it's clear the prompt was used, you're good.
There are no particular word count goals or minimums to aim for. Just write what works for you, whether it's a 3-sentence story per prompt, 100-word drabbles, flash fiction, one chapter of a novel per prompt, or something else.
Don't worry if you don't finish all the stories or prompts - you can take on as much as you'd like. And if you're not done by the time the challenge has ended, you can keep going in your own time (and even share your writing on the posts late) if desired.
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That's about all you need to know, I think? If anyone has questions, just leave a comment.
I'll make weekly check-in posts (8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th), where you can share your writing or progress updates, and a wrap-up post on the 30th. For this week, feel free to share writing or progress updates on this post too, if you can't wait for the first check in.
Have fun, and I hope the words flow!
Table code in case anyone wants a copy (please link back to Worderlands):
The challenge is pretty straightforward:
Write stories (or a single story, if you're wanting a bigger challenge) based around each prompt. So long as it's clear the prompt was used, you're good.
There are no particular word count goals or minimums to aim for. Just write what works for you, whether it's a 3-sentence story per prompt, 100-word drabbles, flash fiction, one chapter of a novel per prompt, or something else.
Don't worry if you don't finish all the stories or prompts - you can take on as much as you'd like. And if you're not done by the time the challenge has ended, you can keep going in your own time (and even share your writing on the posts late) if desired.
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That's about all you need to know, I think? If anyone has questions, just leave a comment.
I'll make weekly check-in posts (8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th), where you can share your writing or progress updates, and a wrap-up post on the 30th. For this week, feel free to share writing or progress updates on this post too, if you can't wait for the first check in.
Have fun, and I hope the words flow!
001. | Fields of flowers | 002. | A dark hallway | 003. | Around a fire | 004. | Beneath a blue sky | 005. | Liminal spaces |
006. | "I'm emotionally invested now." | 007. | "You weren't there." | 008. | "Stop being so cute." | 009. | "I don't know if I love you or hate you." | 010. | "Can we try again?" |
011. | Believing something strange | 012. | Hoping something works out | 013. | Packing something in a box | 014. | Setting something on fire | 015. | Leaving something unsaid |
016. | Blessed with this curse my whole life - Paradise Lost, The Used | 017. | Now it's not too late to change everything you wanna change - Better Days, Yellowcard | 018. | If I'm not broken like I used to be, will you still find me interesting? - Oh No!, All Time Low | 019. | I check the doors, check the windows, and pull the blinds - The Contract, Twenty One Pilots | 020. | Memories, they fill the wall, like paint and nails and frames that fall - Sleeping With The Lights On, Daniel Seavey |
021. | Light sources | 022. | Trickle of water | 023. | Touching grass | 024. | Smoke on the wind | 025. | A presence felt |
026. | Glance | 027. | Caress | 028. | Atmosphere | 029. | Scenery | 030. | Consume |
Table code in case anyone wants a copy (please link back to Worderlands):