100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #35
Can I start this week with an apology? You may have noticed that the link was not working for the most of a day. To say I panicked was an understatement because apart from this challenge, there are two others that have 300+ each week. The problem apparently was an upgrade with Linky Tools and as is often the case, it took much longer than expected.Anyway, we’re back online again. For this week’s prompt, I have gone to topical and it is:
…the red box…
For our non-UK writers, this week sees the budget being announced and much is made of the Red Box that the Chancellor carries the budget in to the Houses of Parliament to make the announcement.
You can use any genre and must use the three words of the prompt although your piece does not have to be about finance! Obviously you can only add a further 100 words. Please also make sure that you have a link back here so that folks can find the others to read. If you have found you way here by accident please read ‘What is 100WCGU? and hopefully it will make a little more sense!
The link will close at midnight on 26th March
Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list. I will transfer them to this page as soon as possible. Do let me know when you have posted!
- Drawing a Blank
- The Little Red Box- Susan K Mann
- A Red Box – ablogdog.com
- Riddles
- Under the Peonies
- The Box
- Mascara
- Anglers Rest
- The Red Box
- Temptation
- Cuddles
- Don’t Open Up the Red One
- An Unexpected Turn of Events
- The First One
- Going Home
- Under the Tree
- …I Froze…
- Tourist Trap
- Paradise Found
- Diabetic Redemption
- A Middle Aged Matron
- Bod For Tea
- Autumn’s Challenge
- Lucid Gypsy
- The Red Box
- An Inappropriate Choice
- Woodland Surprise
- Hope Marks Time
- The Dreaded Red Box
- Red Box
- The Secret
- Tale of Cursed Gold
- Limebird Writers
- For Love, with Love
- We Are Coming
- Always Cesare
- What Lurks within
- What Lurks Within
- Wish Fulfilment
- The Red Box
- Phoenix
- Mission-365-Perpetual
- Red Boxes to Help Them
- Fragments from Fireflyphil
- Michaelsfishbowl
- Shattered Dreams
- Red
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I just found the weekly challenge so I’m sort of brand new here. Anyway, I entered my link into the linky thing! Thanks, Julia.
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Oops!!! I posted this challenge in the wrong blog and had to go back and fix it. Please eliminate the first link (37). Thanks, Angie
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Hi Julia,
Thanks for giving me the inspiration to have a go at writing creatively. It wasn’t as tricky as I thought!
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We’re up! 🙂
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I kind of strectched the Budget idea. Its about cutting costs in a firm. Hope you like “The Dreaded Red Box”! Looking forward to next week’s challenge.
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Very hard again but as I didn’t make it last week I was determined not to fail again! Just realised I used A Red Box rather than The Red Box – whoops sorry !
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Thank you Julia. As usual I thought the prompt impossible and as usual it haunted me until I’d had a go. So this is to let you know, as you requested, that I’ve done the linky.
Well done! I’m glad this is stretching those creative juices!
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I don’t know if there’s any way to post a message that everyone can see but for all the blogspot people, it’s very hard for those of us who aren’t members of blogspot to ever get to post a comment. If the word matching is turned on, it never thinks you’ve matched and sometimes when it’s not the comment just hangs up while it blinks back and forth to the word matching but never posts… I note from comments that I’m not alone. Definitely helps when people turn off the word match but maybe blogspot needs a heads up?
I will put your comment on the next prompt so that writers know of the problems. Thank you so much for persisting with it!
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Julia, I hope you don’t mind if I copy and paste a comment here for Anna Halford. I’m having a lot of trouble getting Blogger to publish my comments on her entry. I’ll try to direct her here later via Twitter.
To Anna Halford (I tried to leave this on your entry for this week): This feels like it’s going to be a good surprise because of the salutation, bittersweet perhaps, but welcome.
I think you’ve written this very well, so I have only one tiny bit of critique. I’ve found that words can be tricky sometimes when we use the same one in very close sentences. Sometimes it helps to find a different word for something, or a different phrase, only because a certain repetition detracts rather than enhances a passage. One way to address that here would be to say something like: “… with her name in writing she instantly recognized.” Removing the close repetition of the word “hand” would make “… trembling hands …” read stronger. It would also give you two more words to work with, but there are other ways to accomplish this. I just wanted to give an example for clarity.
I can’t wait to find out what’s in the letter and the box!
I managed to copy this to my blog where I replied. Thank you for taking the time to comment so comprehensively.
Interesting. I’m in the US, and didn’t know about the red box, but here we have a company that has red box-shaped machines (like vending machines) they put in stores to rent movies from. They are actually called Red Box (or RedBox or something similar – I’ve not seen it in print). That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the prompt, so I thought I’d share.
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I noticed that you asked us to let you know when we posted. I have one this week. It’s called “Under the Peonies.”
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Oh no! I still haven’t had time to write anything for the last one….
Not to worry! If you have one for ‘..but I turned it off..’ after the link is closed, let me know & I’ll post it for you!