Weekly Prompt
Weekly Prompt: Learning Your P's and Q's
And the rest of the alphabet
Welcome to the fourth weekly challenge for July, where the theme is Expand Your Vocabulary.
Last week, we looked at words created by other authors, and before that words from other languages, and words from Olde English.
This week, we’re going to look to the alphabet to be our inspiration.
There are letters that get more love than others. It isn’t fair, so let’s change it.
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Be exactly 50 words long, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
- Be fictional, even if it includes factual information or concerns.
- Use “alphabet” as one of your five tags.
- 3 words to use in a story, one from each of W, Y, Q (e.g. yearning, wanton, and quagmire)
- Yesteryears Yearning Youthful
- Wanton Westernize Whippersnapper
- Quintessence Quagmire Quaternion
Challenge Example
Since this is a short example, I will inline it instead of having another story.
Weekly Prompt Example Story
How do I use these three words — Westernize, Quagmire, and Yesteryears — in a coherent example story?
And use only fifty words.
Have I, in my less than youthful zeal, made this challenge too difficult? Have I been wanton in my selection? This is so quintessentially me.
Ah-ha! Brilliant idea…
This month’s theme: