2023 Summer Writing Challenge
Welcome to our 2023 Summer Writing Challenge!
Our Summer Writing Challenge is running from Wednesday, June 14th, to August 16th.
Basic Guidelines
Challenge Prompts are posted each Wednesday, and you should attempt to complete the challenge within the week.
Once you’ve finished, you are welcome to share what you come up with or keep it private!
Writing Community
You are welcome to join our Discord server and share your completed challenges there, as well as read other completed challenges! You can join here.
You can also share your work (or a link to it) on social media with the hashtag #sotwwritingchallenge or #scribeofworlds.
If you want to share privately, please email your finished challenges to ScribeOfWorlds@gmail.com. We will not share them in any way if you don’t want us to, but we would love to see them!
Challenge Prompts
Prompt One:
This week, the challenge is nothing more than to sit and put words on a page. See how many you can get!
And repeating the word “No” over and over does technically count, but I think you can do more than that!
Prompt Two:
Write the internal monologue of a character, whether your own or from one of your favorite books. What are they thinking about the situation? What are they thinking about themselves? About the people around them?
You can also write your own internal monologue. I know y’all are self narrating anyway.
(And enjoy the cartoon version of me screaming!)
Prompt Three:
Any history buffs in the house? No? Time to stretch your ability!
Write a history account for a town in your story or a favorite book, or a fictionalized account from your own history!
If non-fiction is your thing, then I guess you can do an actual account…
Prompt Four:
Remember that… person? You know, the one who does that thing?
For this challenge, write a short story (1500-2500 words/4-6 pages) about a person that no one can remember the name of.
The why is up to you (and we don’t remember anyway…)
Write a poem based on a favorite character arc, a plot in progress, a favorite novel, or anything you resonate with!
Then I dare you to find a place for it in your book when you’re finished.
(Extra bonus points if you write it in limerick format)
What does your Crystal Ball tell you?
Redo the “History Challenge,” but this time, look forward, prophesying what action your character might take or what journey they might embark upon!
A lot of mist, mystique and breaking fortune cookies in very serious manner is recommended.
Healthy relationships are difficult to find, and sometimes even more difficult to write about!
Write about a relationship you have no or little experience with! An older or younger sibling, the odd wizard who lives in the creepy house down the street, a healthy relationship with your father and milk, things you don’t know anything about!
Note: This one can be very emotionally taxing, depending on the relationship. Please practice self care and reach out if you’re struggling.
Sometimes, perfection comes through hard work and perseverance.
For this challenge, go back to a past prompt and edit what you wrote, to make just right!
And remember – perfection doesn’t come with the second draft, either, but progress is still progress!
In this final challenge, use all your skill and expertise to combine two of the prompts you’ve finished into one, blended project.
Think it’s impossible?
That’s a question only your imagination can answer.
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