Creative Outlet Challenges for Bored Writers

Cinders posted on Mar 01, 2008 at 07:55PM
- Write a love story without using the word love.

- Write a sonnet in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme.

- Find a news article and change it into a story.

- Write a story that's as far away from the character's thoughts as possible. See Hemmingway's link for an example.

- Write a story without the verb "to be."

- Write a complete short story in under three hundred words.

- Write a complete short story in under three hundred words in iambic pentameter.

- Write a link

- Write an link

When you're done, post the result here.
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over a year ago Cinders said…
My Italian Sonnet:

If He, Then We

I have seen children playing in the sun
But never have I seen such eyes as these!
The widest, deepest chasms watch the breeze
As if he knows the secret soul of fun.

I have no doubt I’m not the only one;
A piano after all has many keys,
With which to play the songs of all the seas.
How deeply does our striking likeness run?

I look at him and see myself look back,
I feel the strange and silent family bond
His eyes, so wild, so tame, so bright, so black—

He grins at me and my lips will respond
He sees me wonder, if a chimpanzee
Can know the truth of life, then why can’t we?

My Pantoum:

Broken Clock

The clock in the hall is broken, the second hand stuck
Waiting reminds me of sleeping; the time doesn’t pass
And every day I wait to try my luck
The postman always drives by and I watch him through the glass

Waiting reminds me of sleeping; the time doesn’t pass
I live in the limbo hours between midnight and morning
The postman always drives by and I watch him through the glass
The wheels of his van always screech out a warning

I live in the limbo hours between midnight and morning
The postman comes everyday at noon
The wheels of his van always screech out a warning
I’ve been waiting to learn of your fate since June

The postman comes everyday at noon
And every day I wait to try my luck
I’ve been waiting to learn of your fate since June
The clock in the hall is broken, the second hand stuck
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over a year ago Gothchloeluthor said…
Ok it's not much of a story but it's very short . PS. My writing is not the best so please excuse the errors.

- Write a love story without using the word love.


A Beast lived inside her. It was to big to hide away in the dark corner of her soul. It feasted on her human desire, her desire to become one with him. Like a moth to a flame, It burned. Like a lemon in the wound, it stinged. Like floating face down, it drowned her. It took her in then left her bare. Making her a victim of it. That how she felt.
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