Comments on: Creative Copy Challenge #6

By: Portfolio | Ghostwriter Dad | Direct Response Marketing and Content Creation

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:42:45 +0000

[...] week with Challenge #5, which quickly shot to over 50 comments. We published a follow-up on Friday. Challenge #6, unbelievably enough, should finish out at over [...]

By: Steven A. Lowe

Steven A. Lowe — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:53:06 +0000

"My philosophy?" asked the trucker. "My philosophy is freedom, every other Friday." Well that was less than helpful, I thought. Time to move on. Maybe the next "man on the street" will have more scaffolding to hang a story on. "Heaven is a no-brainer," he added. "Apartment-dwellers pay insane premiums to live in a box like a doughnut. At least my prison has wheels." On second thought, maybe I'll stay a while.

By: Wear Orange for the Animals « Sara J. Schmidt

Wear Orange for the Animals « Sara J. Schmidt — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:06:44 +0000

[...] #6 #7 #8 #9 [...]

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:53:39 +0000

Thanks Shane!

By: Shane Arthur

Shane Arthur — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:52:45 +0000

Damn that was good! So short, but very powerful.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:20 +0000

Every other Friday, the doughnut boy hid in his apartment, picking at the scaffolding as he listened to truckers on the CB he'd stolen. His philosophy was a no-brainer; for him, the freedom of Heaven came not in the salvation of his soul, but the premiums paid by hookers who wanted the inside skinny on who, when, and where. Soon, he'd be out of this dump.

By: Shane Arthur

Shane Arthur — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:24:43 +0000

Troy, if you have not done so yet, please write books, man! This is such a trip to read. Well done indeed.

By: Troy Worman

Troy Worman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:48:38 +0000

I was surprisingly hungry after eighty-sixing the Astronaut. The Cracker Jacks Song had given me hit the spot. I deposited the prize in the front pocket of my trousers and turned to the pocketbook. The next two characters on my list were a trucker and a doughnut maker? Like the astronaut before them, they were utterly boring. Writing off each of them was a no-brainer—not at all askew of my own personal philosophy on character development. Then I found my thoughts drifting back to them—those I had written off. I wondered if these characters were truly soulless, and if not, where their souls might have gone. Was there a heaven for flat characters or only a hell? I wondered how I might have saved them—rewritten them—given them freedom from the fate thrust upon them—the fate I had delivered. I imagined erecting scaffolding around their pitiful frames and rebuilding them, giving each of them an apartment, a wardrobe, and an interesting dinner companion every other Friday night. As I wandered back to the corner of my mind where I had deposited their residue, I wondered if in this world there were premiums on character traits.

By: Shane Arthur

Shane Arthur — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:44:40 +0000

That would be super cool. The idea of doing all 250 words together would be something to behold.

By: Cleve Horrocks

Cleve Horrocks — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:02:20 +0000

LOL. Just playing around. I thought of a longer story for this challenge, but decided to try short form again… The thought comes to me of trying to take the first 25 challenges together and do a longer story including all 250 words/phrases… I haven’t really found a cohesive story yet like Kenn’s Bayou Billy or the Homecoming series. Still searching I guess.