Weekly Challenges

Photograph an animal. Try to orient your image so it tells a story.

Close your eyes and try to take ten full breaths without your mind straying to other thoughts. Write about this experience and how your mind behaves. 

Is there someone in your life who you used to be close with? In poetry or prose, write a piece inspired by this person and/or your relationship with them. 

Create a small comic strip.

Using your preferred medium, show us what your dream cake looks like and if there is something more to it than what meets the eye. 

Imagine you are an octopus––able to change your appearance at will and feel everything around you. What would that be like? 

Using just pencil and paper, draw a sprawling city full of apartment buildings and people.

Look at a fruit, any kind of fruit, and write down everything you notice about it. Write a poem about this fruit and see where your observations take you.

Write a poem about what you imagine it would be like to float among the clouds. 

Create the most beautiful tree you can imagine.

Choose a time period that interests you and write a story about the way you would live in that time. What would your life be like? 

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, or you don't, write about this holiday's meaning to you.