Challenges
- Lipogram (seventeen stories) (Your lipogrammatic submissions should avoid a symbol that I will playfully signal by noting that it...)
- The extreme opposite (eight stories) (Compose stories wherein every verb, adjective etc. possesses the letter 'e'.)
- Fossil record (nine stories) (No formal constraints this time (although you may, of course, devise your own). Instead your stories...)
- Monosyllabic stories (fifteen stories) (Your task, should you choose it, is to weave taut yarns in which each word is but one voiced part.)
- Running commentary (two stories) (Let's play with the site too. The idea of this challenge is to create running stories in the...)
- Sentence length (eight stories) (Write a story. Follow a pattern for length. Create sentences which have
the following word...)
- No pronouns (eight stories) (Write a story without using any pronouns. ...)
- 42 word challenge (twenty-nine stories) (Create a story which is exactly 42 words long -- no more and no less.)
- Pi (ten stories) (Create a story where each word's length follows that of the number PI viz 3...)
- Paradox (six stories) (All coherent statements are wrong. Embrace contradiction, and write logical fictions; stories that...)
- Crescendo (five stories) (Except for the first sentence - which is unconstrained - each sentence can only use words from the...)
- Bag of Words (six stories) (Pick 15 words. Pick any 15 words. Pick 15 words and write a story. You can reuse words any number of...)
- Condense (fifteen stories) (Rewrite any popular novel/story/poem in under 50 words.)
- Constrained.org v2.0 discussion (three stories) (Any day now I'll finish my phud and resolve my financial woes. At that time I'm going to completely...)
- London-blank-crook (twelve stories) (Write a story using only the following words: London, blank, crook, ten, on, the, territory, is, it...)
- Another Sentence Length Challenge (three stories) (Create a story where each sentence is the length of the last word of the previous sentence. Thus...)
- Prose Acrostic (six stories) (Create a piece of prose where the first letter of each word follows the sequence from the following...)
- Whodunnit (part one) (eleven stories) (Wopoli Manor, 29th June 1965
Dear Friend,
I hope you have not been overly inconvenienced by...)
- Adjectives, Nouns, Articles (ten stories) (Compose a piece consisting only of adjectives, nouns and articles.)
- Whodunnit (part two) (two stories) (Link your part one character to one another in a manner of your choice.
[Please read 'Post...)
- Behind bars -- Prisoner's Restriction (six stories) (In missives, cons conserve scarce resources. Mimic em. Rein in. Use minimum size runes i.e. a, c, e...)
- Acronym (seven stories) (Beginnings of all the words (adjectives, verbs, etc.) should make a story themselves.
(So that...)
- All in one (twenty-seven stories) (Your challenge is to create a story in the span of one single solitary sentence.)
- Exposition 2000 (eight stories) (The clatter of keys ended abruptly and Jane was left staring exhausted at the view panel, its...)
- Encyclopedia (three stories) (The splendid history of Tlön has its beginning one night in London in the early seventeenth century...)
- Heterogram (five stories) (Let no pair of abutting words exhibit a common letter.)
- Ghostly goings on (two stories) (Create a story of ghostly goings on, where no mention is made of ghosts, monsters, ghouls or Vincent...)
- Manoeuvring (two stories) (All vowels must strictly accord by the run in "manoeuvring": A, O, E, U, I.
Also note: using a...)
- Bright eyes (three stories) (Your task is to conjure a story where each word in a sentence follows the pattern of letters as...)
- Ex Libris Neminis (three stories) ("The number of themes, of words, of texts, is limited. Therefore nothing is ever lost. If a book is...)
- Ecology (four stories) (Ecology is various, to paraphrase Louis MacNeice, but it is an area which, as ill-defined as it is...)
- Larding (four stories) (Take a few sentences from a story that you quite like. Place a new sentence in between two...)
- Alliterative (six stories) (Write a story where each word in a sentence begins with the same letter.)
- Random Beginnings (three stories) (Get yourself a die. Then pick six letters from the alphabet, six nouns and six verbs, assigning a...)
- Epitaph (nine stories) (Compose stories about the dead, where the number of words in the story equals the age of the...)
- Seasonal Eye (two stories) (Construct a story without the use of the letter that sounds close to "eye". You should take as your...)
- Object (three stories) (Take an object and write a love story involving it and someone/thing. The story should be in the...)
- Prose haiku (four stories) (So let's try and create a haiku-like prose constraint. My idea is that we shall impose the 5, 7, 5...)
- Lightless and bound (two stories) (You are imprisoned in a room with no light. There is no door, but you can occasionally hear the...)
- A ghostly interrogation (two stories) (You and a lover are engaged in an argument about whether one of you is alive. One of you believes...)
- Norbury acrostic (four stories) (Compose a story, where the first letter of every word follows the sequence in the following excerpt...)
- Molecular (one story) (Your task is to compose stories using the symbols of chemical elements as your lexical atoms...)