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The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
This is a daily writing exercise. Each weekday I'll post a prompt consisting of a single word, for you to interpret as you will. Write as much or as little as you want, and then post the result if you'd like. Quality doesn't matter (as you'll see from what I post), the idea is just to stretch your creative muscles. Quantity matters insofar as if I conclude you're phoning it in for points, you will get no points. If it's just for the lulz: suit yourself.

I hope people will want to participate in the challenge on its own merits, but as an added incentive, I'll award 5 points to anyone who completes all five prompts in a given week. (Must duel me to receive points). You can go back and do prompts that you missed until I tally them shortly after midnight on Sunday night.

To keep the clutter to a minimum I'll be posting new threads weekly, with each day's post made to the current thread. Week eight starts now!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
2/20/23

Star

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Cold and silent fire
Burning among so many
I wish upon you

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
2/21/23

Map

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Unfolded paper
You're not the territory
But I'll follow you

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

...how many weeks is this going for?

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Until Ford installs the Morganbot to do it for her.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
52 weeks, unless it hits a point where nobody's doing it anymore. I'm not counting this week towards that potential outcome, I'm sure a lot of people are busy with their contest entries right now.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Edit, I'm wrong.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Fixed, thanks!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Oh, you just fixed that so fast. I thought for sure I was mistaken.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
I was afraid it was going to get edit locked. Although I think you can put a closing tag in a subsequent post? Still, I'd prefer not to, and I definitely appreciate the head's up!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
2/22/23

Gift

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Behold, my nephew
Ignoring his newest toy
To play with the box

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Penis

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Cock, even.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Unsolicited
Sent by a cishet "suitor"
What was he thinking?

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

What Cel fantasizes about showing to underage girls.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

That was quite uncalled for. I thought we were cool, Typewriter.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

No one is safe from TCat's wrath

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
2/23/23

Host

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Always so gracious
The cat hosting a party
For her rodent friends

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
2/24/23

Water

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

There once was an owl of great renown

Not any ol' fowl, she's the talk of the town 

But why oh why, one might ask?

It's her yappy cry, it's that crappy task.

 

She doesn't get the clue, that this challenge gets old

It isn't anything new, the premise isn't well-sold

No effort to be seen, in her three-sentence crap,

A sloth she's always been, not even worth a slap

 

Not a single review, written from her skull

Complaints out of the blue, contributions: null

So shut up with this thread, no one cares

I don't even want to end this with a rhyme

 

Hope people like you are one and few

Water is more entertaining than you

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
There once was a CYStian named Darius
Whose complaints were many and various
He didn't recognize haiku
Said the owl: hoo hoo!
Your poem about me is hilarious!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Chug it every day.
Warm water with salt in it.
Diarrhea now.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

If commendations were like points, I would take them all away.

But since I can’t, just like water,

I too will drift ever onward, away from these threads.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
The haiku will stop
When my contest entry's done
Meanwhile, five seven five!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
More like five, seven, six unless you have a really wacky accent

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Dammit, you're correct
My haiku: hopelessly flawed
My fault for rushing!

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

There once was a CYStian named Darius
Whose complaints were many and various
He didn't recognize haiku
Said the owl: hoo hoo!
Your poem about me is hilarious!

The owl has written

Another shitty haiku

hipocrisy much?

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
Quoth the owl: hoo hoo!
I've got you doing it too!
Yay shitty haiku!

Honestly? The whole point of this whole exercise is to write some shit. To write something every day. To not let the blank page win.

Maybe that's something you don't have any trouble with. If so, kudos! But I'm doing this for myself, and for anyone else who wants the extra push to write something every day. Even if it's just a shitty haiku.

Except not next week, because apparently I'm banned. :P

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago

You don't get to make more threads until the contest is over.

I have banned you from making anymore threads.

The Owl's Challenge - Week Eight

one year ago
I'd rather not fight
Even though haiku are fun
See you on the sixth