I love the challenges that do the rounds on WordPress. The ones that impress me the most are the single lines stories – people do such an amazing job of writing whole stories in one sentence using prompts. The creativity that flows on the WordPress community is the primary reason I find it close to impossible to stay away from this blog world. Recently Sam nominated me for a single line stories challenge and to be honest, I am kind of terrified to do it – mostly because I don’t think I can do the challenge half as good as Sam did, herself. But it does seem like an interesting challenge and something different from what I usually do here on my blog (that is blabber). I am not really following all the rules but taking this as a fun personal challenge.
THE CHALLENGE –
- Write 5 single line stories that fall under any of these genres (you can pick which ones you do!):
- fantasy
- romance
- thriller
- mystery
- western
- contemporary
- historical
- drama
- dystopian
- adventure
- sci-fi
- paranormal
- young adult
- You can choose 5 genres that’s easiest for you, or you can challenge yourself to try something new!
GENRE #1: ROMANCE
As the bride walked down the aisle, her best friend turned to look at the man she deemed not good enough to marry her friend, the tears in his eyes and glow on his face finally made her a believer of their love.
GENRE #2: THRILLER
As the bride walked down the aisle, her best friend turned to look at the man she had almost married, a shiver ran down the groom’s spine as he felt like he was being watched, by her, – the world didn’t know the lengths he had gone to to make this wedding possible.
GENRE #3: DYSTOPIAN
As the bride walked down the aisle, her best friend smiled melancholically before returning to the perimeter as she and the rest of the wedding party stood on guard against the OAIFM (Organization Against Inter-Faith Marriages), little did she know that none of them would see the light of the next day.
GENRE #4: HISTORICAL
As the bride walked down the aisle, his courtiers wondered what end awaited this new bride, her ladies in waiting talked to each other in hushed tones, blushing and giggling, wondering if they could be next in line to marry King Henry.
GENRE #5: YOUNG ADULT
As the bride walked down the aisle, her 15 year old best friend awaited her at the end of the pretend aisle, as they said their pretend “I DOs”, she wondered if her best friend would kiss her at the end of the ceremony, she hoped she would.
I tried to do something different by taking the same premise and trying to present it in different genres. I like some of my stories better than the others. Which single line story was your favourite?
PS: I didn’t nominate any one for the challenge but if you are up for it, leave a single line story in the comments using the same premise and of a genre of your choice! 😀
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Wow wow, goodness mee!! This is probably one of the BEST things to have come out of this challenge! I looove how imaginative this is and how you could narrate a similar “plot” in so many different genres. My personal favourites are young adult, historic, dystopian, yeah, basically all of it:… 😁 Young adult is the cherry on top though. 😍 Loved every single story!
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Thank you for nominating me! I enjoyed doing this!!
The Young Adult one is my favourite too. 🙂
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Ohhhh wow, Moksha. Great job! I love how you have presented the same plot in different ways. Sam did a great job in nominating you. Way to go! You nailed the challenge
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Thank you so much!! ❤
Hope you are doing well!!
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great job there! they were all so good!!
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Thankeee! ❤
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Wow, wow, and wow: all of them were super brilliant!
I honestly can’t decide which one’s my favourite, cause I love them all 🤩
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Yayay! Thank you so much for your kind words. ❤
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Anytime 😄
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Omg this is so fun, I’ve never heard of this before! I like them all 🤣💖
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Ohh these single line challenges are all over WP!
Thank you so much! ❤
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Ha Im sooooo not tapped In 😬
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Oh my…wow! Same plot, different genres🙌🤭 I loved them all. Great job, Moksha.
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Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
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Wow, it’s cool how those 7 words can start many different stories. All in the same sentence as well. I love these!
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yayay! Thank you so much!!! 🙂
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Hehe I love the transition from dystopian to historical 😊😅
Great writing!! I am definitely not a novelist lol I will leave it up to you, folks! 🙂 great single liner prompt though!!
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Thank you!!!! 🙂
You may not be a novelist but your opinion still holds high value with me. 🙂 ❤
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Awww thanks ❤️❤️😘
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Oh wow, Moksha this is wonderful. A very bold move to use the same line across all the genres and they worked out wonderfully well 🙂
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Thank you so much! 🙂
I wrote one story and didn’t know what to do for the others – so I decided to just use the same premise and tweak it. 😀
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This is the first time when I’ve seen this sort of challenge. It’s good but not so easy to implement. Excellent work done.
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Oh, but you did so well! And you are right, this challenge is very cool.
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Wow! This was such an interesting challenge! I love how you used the same premise. I have to try this out 😋👍🥳🤪
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Very cool.
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Woaahhhh such a brilliant job, sissy !!! My favourites are historic and young adult ❤️
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This was a fun idea! They are all good but I like #1 the best. 😁
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