Writing Prompt – Creative Copy Challenge #527
Posted: April 12, 2018 | Author: KathleenMK | Filed under: Copy Challenges, Uncategorized | Tags: authors, autumn, beach, blessings, challenge, copy, critique, Day, English, essays, flowers, fun, history, holiday, inspiration, language, Love, memoir, memories, memory, New, play, Poem, poems, presidents, reviews, right, romance, share, sharing, short, spring, story, summer, thanks, winter, word, words, write, writer, writers, Writing, writing prompts |32 CommentsThis 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 before and after each of your challenge words if you want them to stand out, but NOT REQUIRED THOUGH! Or, as cleverly done by a CCC-er you can CAPITALIZE the challenge words in your piece.
- Fledgling
- Dubious
- Lopsided
- Muddle
- Irked
- Vexatious
- Blunder
- Feasible
- Pliant
- Jeer
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Writing Prompts - Creative Copy Challenge 
I tried to muddle through the vexatious angst of creating a feasible product to sell on the Internet. Vexed, because I didn’t really understand marketing. Angst, due to the unrelenting jeers and taunts I received from my family.
Eventually, I decided on a list of dubious candidates:
A pliant broom – able to reach under those tight areas, like radiators and breakfronts;
A deck of cards with inconspicuous marks – for fledgling grifters, cardsharps and would-be poker stars;
A mobile phone with a large “undo” button – to reverse accidental butt-dialing, compromising selfies and auto-correct blunders.
I sent this list to ten friends. I knew that I had irked them all, for when the results were tallied, I got a lopsided “victory” for the broom–and where I could shove it.
I’d buy that mobile phone, Mitch. 😉
he-he. I figured one in three would be a winner. 🙂
Mitch ~ I love the broom and the phone. :]
Such a forward thinking man!
Kathleen
My feeble, fledgling attempts at a dubious design was laughingly lopsided and a mismatched muddle that left me irked indefinitely.
The various vexatious drafts produced a blunder banquet without a feasible form or pliant picture of what I hoped to achieve.
Leave it to the pros, is my not-so-jesting jeer.
Whee! A ditty from Cathy! Nice to see you and your enchanting alliterative marching band!
Cheers,
Mitch
A friend was asking about creative writing and, of course, I told her about CCC. And that prompted me to finally get back here! 🙂
BTW-She said she wrote something (her name is Paula). Maybe her comment is being held for approval–?
Found hers and SRS, too! Thanks for the heads-up!
Cheers,
Mitch
That friend would be me. This place looks fun!
Miss Paula ~ It is a fun place. Glad you are joining us.
Write On,
Kathleen
Hello there Miss Cathy~
“… a blunder banquet…” this is something I have been invited to many times. Oh wait, I not only got invited to, but stepped up to the chow line for.
Write On,
Kathleen
LOL! So glad to be back, Kathleen, and I brought a friend. 😉
I see you did Miss Cathy! Bravo. And thank you.
Write On [in many ways],
Kathleen
Ack – a [space] blunder
it sounds good either way. Folk are all atwitter about ripping the government asunder. LOL
Good point. 😉
“Thou VEXATIOUS FLEDGLING! Thinkest the Bard himself wouldst not be IRKED by such a monumental BLUNDER?” the director shouted as the production’s newest stagehand struggled to right himself after tripping over a LOPSIDED piece of scaffolding and landing against a surprisingly PLIANT false beam.
Given the DUBIOUS start to his first day, the stagehand thought it FEASIBLE it might also be his last. The JEER of the pretentious director still ringing in his ears, he thought, “I may be in a MUDDLE, but the show must go on.”
Encore, encore! Err… Welcome, Paula! 🙂
I really liked the image of a surprisingly pliant false beam.
Cheers,
Mitch
Thanks, Mitch! I fear the inspiration for my “story” came from the fact that I submitted a 10-minute play to a competition this week, so I have playwriting and stagecraft on the brain. (Plus, Shakespeare’s birthday is next week, and who doesn’t love the Shakespearean Insult Generator?)
Ah, cool! And what’s this Insult Generator? I’m sure I’ve stumbled upon it in the past. LOL
Cheers,
Mitch
Actually it’s the Shakespeare Insult Kit: http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Funny-pages/shakespeare-insult-kit.html
There is a generator, too, but that takes all the fun out of it by combining words for you.
Drat, I got an error when I clicked on that link. I love online generators, especially for random names.
Yay, Paula! So glad you decided to try your hand. You make the Bard proud. 🙂
Welcome aboard Miss Paula!
Glad to see you joining us. What a wonderful ditty! A true complete short story in 2 paragraphs that included a few chuckles for this reader! BRAVO!
I look forward to seeing more from you.
Write On,
Kathleen
Thank you kindly!
Jonathan triumphantly celebrated on the phone, leaving me to muddle through the lopsided investor proposal, seething at my desk. It just wasn’t feasible to launch our fledgling company under these terms. I had been dubious of his ability to secure the best terms….but after all, he was the face of the company, wasn’t he? “Growth means compromise!” he had admonished me on his way to the pitch. But I was irked beyond measure to discover that his pliant accommodation of their requests extended all the way to rights to our underlying patent! “You…you gave away the secret sauce!” I exclaimed, but my jeer fell on deaf ears. His vexatious blunder could cost us everything. Today was supposed to be our victory. How did I let this happen?
Welcome, SRS! If this is the beginning of your novel, sign me up! I really love business intrigue stories!
Cheers,
Mitch
My favorite line was “His vexatious blunder could cost us everything.”
SRS – Hello and welcome to the CCC.
I could feel the frustrations of Jonathan! Bravo.
Write On,
Kathleen
Love this line, SRS ~ But I was irked beyond measure to discover that his pliant accommodation of their requests extended all the way to rights to our underlying patent! Well done and welcome!
Thanks, Kathleen. I just dug into my swipe file of Rube Goldberg Ideas. LOL
Cheers,
Mitch