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Rated: 13+ · Book · Activity · #2293321

A musically-inspired challenge with writing prompts posted twice a month.

Apologies, The One-Line Lyric Challenge is temporarily on hiatus and will return later!
If you see a song or prompt you like, write away! However, there won't be prizes.


Every month, two songs will be posted: One with a lyric prompt (start of the month) and one as a song prompt (middle of the month).
Entries will be due at the end of the month for either prompt.

Lyric Prompt: Write a poem or story and include the prompted lyric line somewhere in your work, word for word. It's up to you how you want to incorporate the line. Please bold the line to make it easier for me to find. It's OK if your work is loosely inspired by the song, but try not to make it too similar or copy the song. If you don't like the provided lyric prompt, you can pick a different line from the lyrics to incorporate (only one line).

Song Prompt: Write a poem or story inspired by the song. You do not need to include any lyrics directly, and in some cases there may not be any lyrics. Just write whatever the music or lyrics inspires.

Please link back to the challenge somewhere in your entry using {item:lyric} and post your entry as a link in the comments here.

The Prizes: 5K GPs, a merit badge of my choosing, plus a guaranteed review of your entry.
If you enter both prompts that month, you will get double the prizes!

Feel free to listen and comment on the music or other people's entries.


2023 Quill Nominee
August 16, 2025 at 4:41pm
August 16, 2025 at 4:41pm
#1095411
This will be the last prompt for a little while. I've said before, summers are for endings. All the major changes in my life have happened over the summer, and this is far from an exception. In this case, an ending without a beginning. Or, an ending without an end?

When I figure my own life out, this challenge will eventually return. I'm sorry that I can't give a timeline for that.

Running through hell, heaven can wait.

Song Prompt: "Long Road to Ruin" by the Foo Fighters (Prompt closed)



Lyrics:

Write a poem or story inspired by the song. No need to incorporate any lyrics.
August 2, 2025 at 12:14pm
August 2, 2025 at 12:14pm
#1094555
Probably a new artist to most of you, and definitely a new song. Orla Gartland is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician with a very unique style that's hard to describe or pin down. She got her start on YouTube at the ripe old age of 13, and has really come into her own and found her style. There's something I just love about a clean melodic voice with heavy electric guitar behind.

This song was released in October of last year as part of an album of the same name.

"Everybody Needs a Hero" by Orla Gartland



Lyrics:

Lyric Prompt: "I'm not as tough as I look" (Prompt closed)

If you don't like the given prompt, you can chose another line from the lyrics above.


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