Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #312

Posted: February 28, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 37 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Ordinary
  2. Monster
  3. Story
  4. Foot
  5. Visit
  6. Honor
  7. Movement
  8. Decide
  9. Toxic
  10. Complex

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #311

Posted: February 25, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 50 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Nothing
  2. Daily
  3. Cold
  4. Selective
  5. Modern
  6. Breath
  7. Second
  8. Crash
  9. Hook
  10. Prior

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #310

Posted: February 21, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 56 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Awful
  2. Tank
  3. Noise
  4. Shelter
  5. Check
  6. Swell
  7. Warm
  8. Different
  9. Boot
  10. Deep

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #309

Posted: February 18, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 74 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. View
  2. Lip
  3. Echo
  4. Float
  5. Glisten
  6. Share
  7. Flow
  8. Alone
  9. Lose
  10. List

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #308

Posted: February 14, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 54 Comments

John E. McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for The Baltimore Sun, chose the words for our writing prompt again. Show him your talent. And then check out his new book.

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Vegetate
  2. Arrogant
  3. Psalm: A sacred song or hymn; A book of the Bible comprising a collection of religious verses
  4. Emotional
  5. Smokehouse
  6. Aria: A long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio
  7. Bloviate: Talk at length, esp. in an inflated or empty way.
  8. Treadmill
  9. Epiglottis: A flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the windpipe.
  10. Tickety-boo: fine, okay <everything is going to be tickety–boo eventually

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #307

Posted: February 11, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 59 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Bend
  2. Age
  3. Fade
  4. Rip
  5. Drift
  6. Within
  7. Matter
  8. Avoid
  9. Slap
  10. Turn

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Guestblogging The Right Way

Posted: February 8, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Random Stuff | 3 Comments

Happy Friday CCCers. A quick note on something I wanted to share (If guestblogging is not your cup of tea, ignore the rest of this post and have a good weekend. If guestblogging is something you’ve considered, read on).

Ever heard of Jon Morrow? If not, read this and come back.

Back? He’s one of the highest-paid writers/marketers in the blogosphere.

He started a guest blogging program some time back to help bloggers write better, and get noticed and land guest posts with influential bloggers. I went through his program and it does indeed kick ass. After doing the program, the main thing I learned is his methods are so bleepin’ simple, yet so overlooked by most bloggers I’ve seen struggling for attention. I was left thinking how much of an unfair advantage his students have over bloggers trying to get attention and write powerful prose on their own. And I liked the program so much, I started offering people in the forum free color-coded line edits of their posts to give their guest posts a final polish (I edit in case you didn’t know. The edits I did for Jon’s guestblogging program look like these edit tutorials I did in the past.)

Anyway, Jon liked what I did so much, I’m now officially part of his guestblogging program, and all my color-coded edits are in the forum for everyone to study.

It’s something I believe will benefit struggling bloggers or I would not have bothered to go through the course or become part of it.

Now for the part that benefits ME.

If you decide you or someone you know could use such a program, and you’ve come to like me through the CCC, use my affiliate link to check out the program. If you’re checking out the program anyway, you may as well leave some extra coin in my pocket in the process (I could use it more than Jon 😉  )

Pimping out programs isn’t really my style, so this will be the only time I post something like this.

Hopefully, I’ll see some of you in the program. If not, I’ll see you every Monday and Thursday as usual.

Write on!

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #306

Posted: February 7, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 67 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Quick
  2. Note
  3. Please
  4. Kick
  5. Drive
  6. More
  7. Soft
  8. Force
  9. Natural
  10. Average

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)

Writing Prompts – Creative Copy Challenge #305

Posted: February 4, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Copy Challenges | 51 Comments

This is a writing prompt. Bet you can’t do it! Take the 10 random words below and crush writer’s block by creating a cohesive, creative short story! And remember: after (if) you finish entering your submission into the comment field, highlight your words and click the bold button to make them stand out and help you determine if you forgot any words. (If you’ve missed previous writing prompts, we BET YOU CAN’T do those, either.) NOTE: Our bolding plugin is gone, so you’ll have to put <b> and </b> around each of your words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH.

  1. Fill
  2. Check
  3. Tire
  4. Afraid
  5. Actually
  6. Cover
  7. Cold
  8. Perfect
  9. Lost
  10. Dumb

NOTE: Don’t copy and paste from MS Word. Use a program like notepad that removes formatting or just type in the comment field itself. Also, finish your submission, THEN bold the words. Thanks. (And don’t forget to tweet this and share it with your friends.)