Bloggers sign up to write at WordPress for various reasons. To canvas their writing, poetry, photography or present their creations to the world at large.
We write to express ourselves, for cathartic reasons, to inform or to amuse and this is what the Friendly Friday Blog Challenge is all about.
It is a challenge open to all, and it’s no longer just a photographic or travel-based challenge.
Friendly Friday Blog Challenges
We welcome narrative-based posts, as well as stories, poetry and anything that can be triggered and connected with the prompt word. It is fun and inspirational. Friendly Friday will get you posting when you lack inspiration.
When you join in with the Friendly Friday challenges, you get to discover more like-minded bloggers and grow the followers to your blog, by building a WordPress community. And that is a good thing. Right?
The Benefits of Joining Friendly Friday Challenges
- Increase your exposure in our blogging communities
- Inspire and be inspired by diverse blog articles
- Challenge your creativity
- Make new friends and keep in touch with old ones
Friendly Friday Prompts for 2022
In 2022, the Friendly Friday Challenge is back, and we have some exciting changes to the usual format in mind. The team, Sandy, Sarah and me, Amanda, think you will enjoy exploring them. More information on the changes will be released in the coming weeks.
For now, the team is gearing up for the 2022 challenge year, and Sarah will deliver the first 2022 prompt, next Friday, on January 28th, 2022.
Are you ready?
The Friendly Friday Challenge Team
Early 2022 Friendly Friday Prompt Release Dates
January 28 – Sarah – Travel with Me
February 10 – Amanda – Something to Ponder About
February 25 – Sandy – The Sandy Chronicles
March 11th – Sofia – Guest Host Photographias
March 25th – Sarah – Travel with Me
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Join in with our challenge. We can’t wait to meet you!
Join the Friendly Friday Challenge and Create a Ping back
- Write a post responding to the challenge prompt when it is released and tag it with ‘Friendly Friday’
- Include a link to the original Friendly Friday Challenge post on the host’s blog
- Note that links to a homepage will not issue a ping back so use the post url.
- If you wish, you can include the Friendly Friday Challenge logo. Download it here.
- Remember to comment on the host’s Friendly Friday post, so that other readers can find your post and read your response.
- Visit other Friendly Friday entries by following their links. It’s inspirational!
- Follow the host blogs to see future Friendly Friday Challenges
Something to Ponder About 
I’m looking forward to start writing again. It’s been way to long since I’ve done a challenge. Challenge s are the best way to get started again.
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Indeed they are, Ineke. I find them especially useful during a dry creative spell. We have done a few over the years haven’t we? We are veterans now! Remember our poetry challenge we created? And skywatch. I think we may have even met via a challenge, originally? Possibly the wordpress weekly photo challenge?
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Yes we are challenge veterans! My info diaries are all packed I would have loved to have a search for the info on how we met here. I know it also had to do with “Birch” Ville here in Upper Hutt. I still do a bit of poetry in Afrikaans. Good times!
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Ah. Perhaps that was why we started a conversation. Because of my connection to the Birch family from Denmark. As you know some descendants of that family immigrated to New Zealand. It was such a beautiful place. Good times and great memories! I am glad to hear you still write poetry. It is good for the soul!
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Shows you what one memory can trigger many more. That’s why I like to work on my memoirs.
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I can not agree more!
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Hope 2022 is fruitful. I’m still behind on my own blog.
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There is plenty of time to redress that.
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Thanks Amanda 🙂 I’m looking forward to getting going again! I just wanted to ad that as well as narrative-based posts, stories and poetry, I’ll be asking people to share photos when my turns come around!
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Photos are included!
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Wonderful!
Glad Sarah joined.
All the best !
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Thank you, Ptp. I appreciate your enthuisasm.
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To be Frank in my earlier days of WP, I was not keen on taking part in these challenges. And you people changed my view and now I enjoy being part of the contributors.
These prompts and challenges keep my brain busy,energetic and sharp which is very much required as ageing is happening.
Thank you Amanda for the inspiration and support.
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Yes I remember to were reluctant, so I am glad I have been able to change your attitude towards challenges. Participate in the ones that move you and whichever way you want. A simple quote/narrative is just as good as photographic contributions.
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Thank you for that endorsement 😀
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🙏🙏🙏
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I don’t do much with prompts, but I enjoy reading what everyone writes after receiving one. This looks like it’s going to fun!
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We try to come up with something different every time, Ally, and I appreciate your interest. I am always pleasantly surprised at how the prompts are interpreted.
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This sounds interesting! I love all the different prompts out on the interwebs… we can pick and choose what resonates.
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Indeed, Janis. The variety is fantastic and when stumped for inspiration, the prompts definitely help. Do you participate in the challenges regularly?
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There are a few that I participate in now and then (Sunday Stills, Thursday Doors, What’s on Your Plate?, What’s on Your Bookshelf?, and I just took part in a writing challenge with a short story). The great thing is that you can participate – or not – depending on which way your creative juices are flowing.
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That is exactly right! I agree. I hope to see you in Friendly Friday sometime.
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You describe it so well Amanda! I’m looking forward to the Friendly Friday Challenges ahead and the diverse topics that our diverse crew will deliver!
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Diversity should be our annual theme!
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