writercize: #WeekendWritercize

**WEEKEND WRITERCIZE IS ON HOLD INDEFINITELY**

Get your hash tags ready and your keyboards prepped, because there's a new competition in the blogosphere!

#WeekendWritercize is a weekly writing challenge of the writercize sort. 

The competition consists of one writercize each weekend without any set-up or sample response. 

It goes up Saturday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time and the last valid entry will be accepted at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night.

Genres, themes and requirements vary weekly.

Since this blog is used by teachers and students, I kindly request that you abstain from profanity and gratuitous violence. (In other words, keep it PG-13.) If your story just can't be told without, provide a link to your post on your own website along with a disclaimer.

In generally, the prize will be recognition via tweets, facebook promotion and a winner badge for your blog, but there will be material goods for U.S. contestants occasionally!  Winners are announced Monday sometime before midnight rolls around.

I will also select an undetermined number of honorable mentions each week!

If you would like to submit a #WeekendWritercize question or serve as guest judge, please send me a message at alanagwrites (at) gmail (dot) com.

See who won:

#WeekendWritercize One (New Endings): Sarah Aisling
Hon. Mentions: Cara Michaels, LupusAnthropos, Lisa Hollar

#WeekendWritercize 2 (Different Folks - Dialogue): Catherine Noble
Hon. Mention: Rossandra White

#WeekendWritercize 3 (Poem to Prose): LupusAnthropos

#WeekendWritercize 4 (In Title): Mike Miller
Hon. Mention: Sarah Aisling

#WeekendWritercize 5 (Pick a Side): Dawn M. Hamsher, Lisa Hollar, Susan Kane

#WeekendWritercize 6 (Roll of the Dice): LupusAnthropos
Hon. Mention: Nicole

#WeekendWritercize 7 (Lucky Charms): Lisa Hollar
Hon. Mention: CHM1880

#WeekendWritercize 8 (Same Start): Sarah Aisling
Hon. Mention: Lisa Hollar

Pick up your badges and display them proudly!
(Just download and save the image with a link to this blog - one day I may figure out the right code!)

Winners' Badge:

Hon. Mentions' Badge:

Writercize in a Nutshell

Writercize (portmanteau of writing + exercise) is an interactive writing site designed to help you train your writing muscles run by freelance journalist and creative nonfiction writer Alana Garrigues.

I try out the writercize alongside you, so what you see is unedited. I may love it, I may not, but I'll post what comes to me.

The site will also be peppered with a few opinions here and there as well as insight on the growing pains and highlights associated with a burgeoning writing career. Please bear with me. It's my blog, so I get to indulge my ego every once in a while. Right?

These days I don't write here often, but there are more than 250 writing exercises in the archives that I encourage you to check out.

I invite you to try out the exercises and leave your result as a comment. There's nothing better than seeing how different writers approach the same exercise with varying styles.

If you expect your writercize may be on the longer side, I recommend writing your comment on paper or as a .doc before posting since long comments may not post properly in one comment field (or at least copy and paste before you click "submit"). Alternatively, some writercizers like to post on their own site as a blog entry and link back to the challenge. Whatever works for you works for me!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you join me in writercizing often!

All written content copyright Alana Garrigues, unless otherwise noted. Bloggers and teachers are welcome to use exercises and prompts, but please reference writercize and provide a link-back. Thank you!

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