Typescript posts a new challenge each Wednesday to encourage creativity and inspire conversation. Feel free to talk about the challenge or share your writing results in the comments section below by leaving an excerpt and/or a link to your own site or blog.

The spark of inspiration can be found anywhere you choose to look. From a title of a song to a sketch found on a napkin, from an overheard conversation to a jumble of words, these stories are waiting to be discovered and told.

Last month, after finding over 300 spam comments in my blog folder containing gibberish in an attempt to sell links and prescription drugs, I discovered that, upon closer look, there was inspiration hidden in these seemingly incoherent strings of words.

What emerged was the Wednesday Writing Challenge: Word Play, where writers had a bit of fun and let their imaginations wander, sparking creativity, igniting something magical…

With spam comments filling up the folder once more, we’re ready for Word Play: Take Two. What inspiration will you find this second round?

One of the most fascinating aspects of writing is the ability to manipulate words and language to convey your intended meaning. Words have so many meanings within their own definitions, and coupling them with others can produce something not entirely expected but altogether magical. There are a thousand ways to describe an object, person, or place, and so, too, are there thousands of stories just waiting to be plucked out of the imagination and put to paper. Sometimes all we need to create that initial spark of inspiration is a word (or three)…

Challenge: Use one of the following couplings of words to create a new story or poem
(Note: many of these have had minor alterations to make a little bit more sense):

Sometimes there she reported

Celtic line faded photograph

With sky always needed

The secret happy girl

He forgot haste

Generate continuous young flowers

Then introduce museum pieces

Who wants the world

Hidden chambers devour time

Satellite recorded a curious kind

Jealous of the early the prisoner

The subway was but rocks and rolled

Here are cities darkened

Gravity means unruffled

One place was interconnected

Sometimes knowledge is more sociable

Bonus: String a collection of words together to create your own prompt!