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100 Words

100 Words

Welcome to the 100 Word Challenge Writing Prompt.
It’s weekly, it’s challenging, it’s fun.
Yes, you can play.

What is this 100 Word Challenge and Writing Prompt Anyway?

The 100 Word Challenge is a weekly writing prompt exercise, the challenge being to keep your submission to exactly 100 words. Not as easy as you think!

Relax though, this isn’t school folks. No need to flashback to giant red F’s on term papers. This is all voluntary and all in FUN. Writing exactly 100 words on a given topic can really exercise your writing muscles. Whether you are an aspiring professional writer or you just like to write for fun, the 100 Word writing prompt is sure to get your creative juices flowing.

Ok, saying I want to take your challenge, what are the rules?

The weekly challenge starts on Tuesday and entries are due by midnight (whatever time zone you’re in) Thursday. Challenges and submissions are posted on my blog every Tuesday. Write your 100 word piece on your blog (don’t worry, you can play without a blog too) with a link back to the original Challenge post for the week you are participating

There are only two (official) rules.

  1. Write 100 words, no more and no less.
  2. Write 100 words related to the topic, a one word writing prompt.

Be as creative as you want. Poetry or prose. Funny or sad. Serious or light. It’s up to you to let the topic inspire you. Use creative fonts and images too if that strikes your fancy. I’ll post all entries on this 100 Words page and announce and feature the weekly selection on Tuesday.

Tell your friends, spread the 100 Words!

How do I submit my 100 Words?

  • Comment with the link to your 100 Word blog post; OR
  • Cut-n-paste the entire 100 Word piece in a comment. This is particularly useful to those of you without your own blog. OR
  • Email me at velvetverbosity at velvetverbosity dot com (if you spam me, I will hunt you down and make you eat banana sandwiches with ketchup for 30 days straight).

Are there any prizes?

Right now you get some *bling* for your blog. See that gorgeous blog bling icon above? You too can have one of these shiny baubles for your sidebar if you would like to participate regularly OR if you are chosen for the 100 Word Weekly Selection. I will send you the the 100 Word Challenge Participant image for your blog (and of course, being fully versed in blogging etiquette as you are, you will link back to this page). With enough participation I’m hoping to offer tangible, hold-in-your-hand, prizes in the future, so spread the word, the 100 WORDS!  Once we have at least 30 participants I’ll start issuing goodies…like chocolate perhaps?

My favorites will be featured in full on the submission post, and all participants are linked to on this page.

How do you come up with each week’s challenge?

It’s a super secret, incredibly complex method that might be too much to handle all at once. But here goes. I take a random book off my shelf, close my eyes, open said book, and point. When I open my eyes, whatever closest word would be amenable as a writing prompt is that week’s challenge. Got that? “Open, point, and choose”.

What if I don’t want to take your dumb ole’ challenge?

Then you should go back to mixing your potato chips with your beer and calling it a meal. D’oh! Just don’t take it! I promise, I will won’t take it personally.

100 Word Challenge Archives

Random entry by “Rob”:

If you’re lucky and tragedy has cut deep enough, a moment will come when you know that you must sever everything everyone said and wrote about how to live and what to do, and *you know* that we are children of the divine, we have this moment only, and tomorrow, *tomorrow*, it is all over. It’s a cataclysmic, calm moment, like a massive stone plunged from high into water, where afterwards the whole pond of time waves gently the bright reflections of Fall colors. Then the gospel of love, the oneness of self and other, you and me, simply is.

Past Participants

6 Comments so far

  1. Rob February 18th, 2008 1:44 am

    If you’re lucky and tragedy has cut deep enough, a moment will come when you know that you must sever everything everyone said and wrote about how to live and what to do, and *you know* that we are children of the divine, we have this moment only, and tomorrow, *tomorrow*, it is all over. It’s a cataclysmic, calm moment, like a massive stone plunged from high into water, where afterwards the whole pond of time waves gently the bright reflections of Fall colors. Then the gospel of love, the oneness of self and other, you and me, simply is.

  2. MadameMeow March 28th, 2008 5:57 am

    I saw this through Secret Agent Mama, and plan on participating next go-round!! Awesome idea!

  3. Mr Lady April 1st, 2008 4:32 am

    Dude, I am so in.

  4. VelvetVerbosity April 1st, 2008 6:36 pm

    Hi Madame Meow and Mr. Lady - welcome to the 100 Word Challenge. A new challenge will be posted by 9pm EST this Tuesday (oh! That’s today!).

    I look forward to your submissions!

  5. Sarah April 5th, 2008 4:30 am

    Okay, I’m in!! I’ll do this on my writing blog as opposed to my mommy blog…seems more appropriate, no? Looking forward to next weeks challenge!

  6. Douglas Brunton May 1st, 2008 6:47 pm

    Game on…look forward to the challenge

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