Welcome Dear Readers! This weekend the Trifecta Writing Challenge editors have challenged us to write a children’s story in 33 words. This is perfect timing for me since all my grandkids are visiting this weekend!
Sideways Farm kept Farmer Larry busy. Every night, Farmer Larry’s animals would fall asleep and roll to the bottom of the hill and every morning Farmer Larry had to sort them out again.
Until next time . . . I love you
Welcome Dear Readers! This week’s 33-word Trifecta Challenge is to ponder the resurgence and ultimate triumph of nature and growth and light.
I hope the good editors don’t mind that I have taken the liberty of putting my own spin on what I would consider the ultimate triumph of nature.
Dear Monster Quest:
Stupendous news!! I’m elated to inform you that hidden cameras have revealed Bigfoot exists, and he’s agreed to a reality show!
Not quite as stupendous news. He has an agent.
Until next time . . . I love you
Welcome Dear Readers! This weekend’s Trifecta Challenge is to write a 33-word story using the word tooth.
Let’s climb Mount Everest, Floss!
No way, Tooth!
Why?
Moi? Dental Floss? Climbing?
But you’ll be between a rock and a hard place . . .
Oh, I love that, Tooth!
Tell me about it, Floss!
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Until next time . . . I love you
Welcome Dear Readers! Well here we are at the weekend Trifecta Challenge. This weekend we are asked to write a 33-word story inspired by the picture below:
He’s such a phonie!
I hate phonies!
Me too!
This puppet show is full of them.
I know!
I like your orange tan!
I like yours too!
Until next time . . . I love you
Welcome Dear Readers! This weekend’s 33-word Trifecta Writing Challenge is as follows: Give us a thirty-three word piece that has a color in it. Use the color to describe anything you like, or use anything you like to describe your color, but keep it creative and keep it short.
I chose this colorful picture of my grandson, Clayton, to write about today.
Propeller’s blue, steering’s green
With shades of Mickey in-between
Here’s a fellow, who likes yellow
A mellow little yellow fellow
But his pants this poem will sabotage
Cause there ain’t no color camouflage
Welcome Dear Readers! Well today the Trifecta Writing Challenge is to describe our writing process in three words as did one of our Trifecta Editor’s most favorite writers, Neil Gaiman. One of the questions asked of him was, “Can you tell us your writing process in three words?” He replied, “Glare. Drink tea.” –
At first, I wanted to say “I got nothing” but I thought, that’s not really a process, so, instead, I decided to go with:
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers and welcome to another weekend! The Trifecta Challenge for this weekend is to write 33 words of our own choosing:
Science fiction?
Richard Nixon?
Badgers or gangrene?
Hasselhoff?
Mazel tov?
Or something in-between?
Indecision stinks I think
It’s making me profane!
To choose just one
I’ve come undone
(I’ll probably die in vain)
Until next time . . . I love you
Welcome Dear Readers! The 33-Word Trifecta writing Challenge for this weekend is to write your own spin on the following quote:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. –Henry James –
Here’s my take:
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Keep scrolling . . . .
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And scrolling . . . .
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Isn’t this fun? . . .
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Just a little bit farther . . . .
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Ah here we are! . . .
There are three ways to look at any situation. There’s the first way if you know what I mean. There’s the second way if you know what I mean, and there’s the third way if you know what I mean.
Until next time . . . I love you (If you know what I mean)
Hello Dear Readers! Today the 33-word Trifecta Writing Challenge is to write something prompted by the phrase: third time’s the charm.
“Hey! Magically delicious dude!”
“I’m a lucky charm, not a box of cereal.”
“Better blow out them candles!”
“Shut-up!”
“Star-light, Star-bright, first—AWKKKKKK!”
“Third time! The charm’s going to have to kill you.”
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! Well it’s time for the 33-word, weekend Trifecta Challenge. If you haven’t tried the Trifecta Writing Challenges yet, you should! They are so much fun and a great way to hone your writing skills. Today the Trifecta Challengers have asked us to write 33 words describing summer.
The Sun’s Summer FunSun looks innocent
Sun shines rays in eyes of kid eating Popsicle until kids trips and drops Popsicle
Sun chuckles
Sun shines rays to dry kid’s tears
Sun goes back to looking innocent
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello and Welcome Dear Readers! This week’s Trifecta 33-word writing challenge is to write a story about the picture below.
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Until next time . . . I love you
Photo Credit: iran-tehran_ Trifecta Writing Challenge
Hello Dear Readers! It’s time for the Trifecta Weekend Challenge which is to write a thirty-three word confession.
“Hey, where’d the donut go?”
“How should I know?”
“Oh no, Carla! Please tell me you didn’t eat it!”
“I didn’t eat it!”
“Thank god because it had rat poi–”
“Carla? Carla? Carla?”
Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers. Today is the Trifecta 33-word challenge. Today’s challenge is to incorporate an example of onomatopoeia –words that sound like what they mean –like splash, whoosh, and yadda yadda.
Little Horribella pulled the string on her talking doll.
“Oink!”
Horribella whacked it and tried again.
“Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling!”
“Oh this stupid doll!” Horribella lit the dynamite.
KERPOW!
“Ah! that’s more like it.” Horribella said.
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! It’s time to get out the word shaker and shake out 33 words for this week’s 33-word Trifecta Writing Challenge. This time we are asked to “write the origin story to the superhero of your choice in exactly 33 words.”
Gobbling the third meal of the day faster than a speeding bullet by age 2.
More powerful than breakfast and lunch and dinner by 20!
It’s a nerd!
It’s inane!
It’s Supperman!
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! It’s time for the Trifecta Writing challenge which is as follows:
This weekend we are bringing you back to class with a little refresher course on compound modifiers. We are talking about two words that combine together to describe something. Such as a well-rounded individual or a one-way street or a lightly-oiled pan. Here’s a fun Trifextra trick: conventionally, if the compound modifier comes BEFORE the word it modifies, it requires a hyphen and counts as one word. If it comes AFTER the noun, it doesn’t need a hyphen and counts as two. For example:
The well-read woman had an extensive vocabulary. (7 words)
The woman was well read and had an extensive vocabulary. (10 words)
. . . . Because it’s only 33 words, we’ll count using our eyeballs instead of our machines, counting each hyphenated modifier as one word. We encourage you to do so as well.
Eyeball-counting editors
They certainly excel
At counting words upon the page
And other things as well
A hyphenated modifier
Never counts as two
As long as dashy-little lines
Are stuck between the two.
Until next time . . . I love you
