A “Double-Dog Dare” Writing Challenge

The infamous ‘Word By Word Dictionary’ is back.

Dogs are slang for feet. Photo by Brandon Couch on Unsplash

This spring I’ve been playing with some new friends on Medium.

We’ve been writing stories in response to 30-day writing challenges.

You know the ones.

“Write a poem a day for x days, or write a story using this word as inspiration.”

I don’t know about you, but I can’t resist these challenges, especially if the words spark something in my brain.

The synapses start to whir and as my friend Claire Kelly says, I’m lost in the ‘caverns of my mind’.

Last spring I was playing with a group of friends, making up ‘Words That Should Be In The Dictionary.’

Crazy Made Up Words By The Crew

We had a lot of fun writing about words that we thought should already exist.

I had a great idea.

Why not take these ‘words’ and create a writing challenge.

Words like:

#11. Confoundium