100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#81

Posted on March 18, 2013 by jfb57

I don’t know about you but things seem very odd in the meteorological system! The weather is not behaving as it should anywhere in the world. Cue for the prompt:

…the unseasonal weather meant …

Do keep to the 100 words plus these 4 and if you need to know what you have to do please read ‘What is 100WCGU?’. If you are still confused leave your question in the comments below or tweet me @jfb57.

The link will stay open until 25th March

If you enjoy taking part in these weekly challenges and have an hour to spare, could you help comment on the children’s version? I am in desperate need of more folks to comment on their 100 words. It only take an hour across a week. Do get in touch if you think you can help!

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list which will be transferred back here as soon as possible!

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#80

Posted on March 11, 2013 by jfb57

Thank you for your patience and support over the week. I’m still coughing but up and about. I hope you took the break to energize your writing skills!

The prompt is another obvious one:

…despite the pounding in my head…

As usual you have 100 words to add to these 6 to produce a creative piece of writing. The link will stay open until 18th March.

If you are completely bemused by this nonsense, do read ‘What is 100WCGU?’

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list and I will move it to this page as soon as possible!

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#77

Posted on February 11, 2013 by jfb57

Life is pretty hectic at the moment. The work I have been doing with the children’s challenge has earned me a shortlisted place for Global Impact on an award from NAACE! It is brilliant news but you can imagine that it brings a bit of stress as I try to get more information to them before the final decision.

Anyway, suffice to say that the prompt this week has just happened! It is:

…oh my goodness! I nearly forgot…

As always you have 100 words to add to those above. Please make sure you add a link back here so that others can find us. We are gaining new writers all the time.

The link will be open until 18th February.

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list. I will endevour to move them to this page as soon as possible. However, I’m away for the week-end so there may be a delay but they will be moved!

Can You Spare an Hour?

Posted on September 8, 2012 by jfb57

If you are a new follower, you may not know that the 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups actually started as a challenge for children.

It is flourishing (over 8,000 entries last year) and children are benefiting from it. Their confidence is increasing and their writing skills are improving by leaps and bounds.

The reason it is so successful is comments the children get. They just love that they have a purpose for writing beyond keeping their teacher happy. Schools are encouraged to comment on posts to broaden pupils contact with other writers. Suggestions from peers hold a great deal of influence.

However, children also love to get comments from ‘grownups’. They understand that the 100WC is about sharing but also about getting better in their writing. So they do appreciate some suggestions of how to make that piece of writing even better. Obviously, it is done in a gentle and constructive way but we have seen great improvements to writing from children taking notice of comments.

The problem with every successful venture though is to maintain the standard. We desperately need more folks to comment. Team100WC is a group of adult volunteers who follow some guidelines and have a set of numbers to comment on each week. Generally, this would be 10 posts across a week. This would take in total about an hour of your time. The key is to pop in from Thursday to the following Tuesday to leave a comment.

If you think you can help please get in touch. This is not a one- off though. We are looking for people who can make this weekly commitment regularly. Obviously there will be things that prevent this but you can let us know and we can cover it.

Please do join the team. It will give you the chance to support young writers and you get to read some FANTASTIC work! Do get in touch by leaving a comment below or tweeting me @jfb57 or @theheadsoffice

THANK YOU!

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #53

Posted on August 6, 2012 by jfb57

Many thanks to you all for your entries last week. I’m always fascinated how you take the prompt off into so many different areas. Let see what you do with this one! The prompt is:-

… would seven prove to be too much? …..

As usual, you have 100 words to add to these 7 making 107 in total to produce your piece. Please make sure it is suitable for a PG certificate and do go and visit each others to support each other.

If you are not sure what this is all about, do go and read ‘What is 100WCGU?’. If you still have questions, leave a comment below or tweet me @jfb57.

The link will stay open until 13th August.

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list. I will transfer the posts to the front as soon as possible.

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #40

Posted on April 30, 2012 by jfb57

Well who would have believed it! We’ve reached number 40. Do make sure you have visited the entries on Week#39 as we had some new writers join us!

The prompt for this week was easy for me to think of. It is ‘RUBY’ in celebration of our 40th week. You can do whatever you like as far as genre is concerned. The only rules are that it is only 100 words long and is suitable for a PG certificate.

Please make sure you link to this post somewhere so that folks can read the other great entries.

If you are completely lost do read ‘What is 100WCGU?’

Click here to enter your link. It will take you to another page but I will link it back here asap!