by Shane Arthur on March 8, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Totally 80s
- Miracle
- Dinosaur
- Tattoo
- Shrinkage
- Reversible
- Poison
- Wheelbarrow
- Epoxy
- Dreamland
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.
by Shane Arthur on March 4, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- All over the place
- Fanatic
- Promise
- Butternut
- Childbearing
- Cupcake
- Invincible
- Human
- Honeybee
- Hammer
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.
by Shane Arthur on March 1, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- If I could turn back time
- Slaughter
- Residue
- Lunacy
- Tyrant
- Luxury
- Foreigner
- Cocaine
- Broken
- Sniper
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 25, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Do you hear me?
- Gut
- Evil
- Felony
- Revolution
- Riptide
- It’s hard
- Vagrant
- Lush
- Lightning
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 22, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Red wine
- Hurricane
- Scary Monsters
- Photograph
- Drama
- Prophylactic
- Morgue
- Hysterical
- Wheelchair
- Stain
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 18, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Dance all night
- Pizza
- Outlook
- Porn
- Pajamas
- Aroma
- Carnage
- Berserk
- Microphone
- Joystick
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 15, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Eyes of a stranger
- Gumbo
- Contraband
- Meadow
- Shimmer
- Nude
- Fall on me
- Dolphin
- Sidestep
- Death
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.
by David Wright on February 10, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- shadow
- trespass
- warmth
- fragrant
- doppelganger
- cupid
- butterfly effect
- luminescent
- velvet
- simpatico
Need an extra creative boost? Our other site, Collective Inkwell, is bringing back a creative writing exercise which we started last year. It’s similar to Creative Copy Challenge, but a bit different. We call it the The Cure for Writer’s Block and the idea is to use complete sentences and sometimes visual prompts to inspire a short paragraph or a short story. We’ll only be doing one a week, though, so as not to overload your creative circuits between CCC and CI.
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 8, 2010
In the comments, use the 10 random words below to create a cohesive, creative short story tying all the words together. And remember: after you finish, 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 some challenges, go back and try those too).
- Coke
- Glacier
- Cesspool
- Womanizer
- Rancid
- Paycheck
- Imposter
- Tablet
- Just an illusion
- Shield
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.
by Shane Arthur on February 7, 2010
It started as an uncertain idea rattling in my head.
Would anybody like it?
Would anybody partner with me to get it done right?
Sure enough, the Creative Copy Challenge has become a wonderfully rewarding experience in far less time than I’d imagined.
Within two days of emailing Sean and David about the idea, we had an awesome looking website up, running and ready to go.
Yet the thought still lingered… Would more than 3 people (family members excluded) like the idea enough to contribute?
To our delighted surprise, seventeen submissions greeted our first challenge, and sixty one overall contributors have contributed to date, leaving 1,042 overall comments and counting.
The group of folks we have in the CCC come from all walks of life and geographic areas. Their talents are awe-inspiring and humbling.
We’re completely and hopelessly addicted to the CCC, and certain we’re not alone.
We’d like to thank everyone for being a part of something so special to David, Sean and me. We hope to keep the magic going for a long, long time.
This brings us to some admin stuff we’d love to get your input on.
Several CCC members thought we should move to three challenges per week. We’re on the fence about this ourselves. Though we’d love another submission, because let’s face it, they are amazing, we’re also concerned some people wouldn’t have enough time to do three per week.
Dave, Sean and I have also thrown around the idea of having two challenges a week, switching from Monday and Thursday, to Monday and Wednesday, followed by a post on Thursday asking the community to vote in the comments for their favorite posts. We would then tally the votes and post the three favorites on Friday with links going back to the author’s website, if applicable.
We would love to get your feedback. We’re ever so slightly concerned that by doing this, we’d turn the CCC into a competitive place and we don’t want that to happen. At the same time, we’d like to give shout outs to those people who have knocked our socks off with amazing material.
We use the term “favorite” to highlight that this is a subjective matter and doesn’t necessarily say anything about writing skill. We may have 80% of us who prefer comedy writing or rhyme, so obviously those types of entries may be “favored.”
This would be our way of gauging what people like most.
Let us know what you think in the comments. We’re super excited about the magic we have going on here and we want to make sure we keep going in the right direction.
Thanks everyone,
David, Sean & Shane
