Writing Challenge Compilation

Your July Challenge; Week Two

A compilation of my responses to the next seven challenges of July

In July I have committed to responding to a writing challenge each and every day.

To support my efforts, and hopefully engage some other folks in taking a stab at one or more of the challenges, I am also putting out a daily bulletin with the list of challenges, a handy Medium tip, plus I welcome one of the groups of new writers added to the ILLUMINATION Publication.

Check my bulletin each day for new challenges that come up. It is a great way to ward off writer’s block and get to know other writers by interacting and responding!

As a way to keep things tidy, and provide convenient access to the challenges, I am doing a weekly roundup of the challenges I took on along with my responses. Read on to see just what happened in week two.

First off I took on Desiree Driesenaar ‘s challenge to describe what verb we would be:

This was a great contemplative exercise to start off the second week, and I responded like this:

Next Sherry McGuinn tells us about the hole in her pants, and asks us if we are feeling the same way?

This was also a good exercise in self-reflection, and I found that the place where my motivation was leaking out was located in my shoe:

Then, Infiniti suggested this great prompt: Something Weird Happened…

I actually hadn’t read her response to her own prompt before I wrote mine, interestingly they turned out to be in a similar vein — great minds think alike!

Next, Rasheed Hooda challenged us to describe ourselves in an acronym of the first letters of our name:

This one actually went better than I expected. See, I am not much of an acronym aficionado. But, older dogs can do some tricks and I managed to pull off something worthwhile here:

There were a lot of weighty topics in this week’s challenges, and this one from B. A. Cumberlidge. that asks when we can start tackling the important issues of our day, certainly was one of those.

I think I did Brian’s challenge a solid and tried to supply a reasonable answer to a very thoughtful and timely question:

Next, Zach J. Watson asked us to create a testimonial for another writer, but in the spirit of election season, do it in a campaign ad format:

I thought this one was a lot of fun, and a brilliant idea by Zach. Super cool, I hope many people participate and pass this one on!

And then to close out the second week of a month’s worth of challenges I dove into this poem challenge from Holly Jahangiri in response to an ongoing poem chain that originated here with Martin Rushton. Check out Holly’s reply to Martin’s prompt:

And then my reply to hers:

Two weeks down, two to go! If you haven’t taken on a writing challenge, it is a fun way to engage with others. Plus, it pushes you to use your imagination a little bit, and also conform your writing to a slightly different style. All good practice, and fairly entertaining. Pick one a give it a try!

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Timothy Key spent over 26 years in the fire service as a firefighter/paramedic and various fire chief management roles. He firmly believes that bad managers destroy more than companies, and good managers create a passion that is contagious. Compassion, grace and gratitude drive the world; or at least they should. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, and join the mail list.