Fun & Games With Jenners: Let’s Write A Story Together
by Jenners • 06/14/2010 • Fun and Games • 18 Comments
Fun and Games with Jenners involves everyone writing the next line of a story.
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Fun & Games with Jenners: Six-Word Memoirs
by Jenners • 06/03/2010 • Fun and Games • 28 Comments
Its Fun and Games With Jenners. This time we're writing 6 word memoirs.
Read more →My Fake Magazine and Book
by Jenners • 04/18/2010 • Fun and Games • 20 Comments
Last week, I asked you to create fake books and/or magazines. I have to say, this is probably the most fun I’ve had with one of my “games.” I can totally envision repeating this one again. I hope you had as much fun with it as I did. Anyway, here is what I came...
Read more →Let’s Create Fake Books and Magazines: Game 14
by Jenners • 04/14/2010 • Fun and Games • 12 Comments
It is time once again for the erratically appearing but always a good time Fun and Games with Jenners! This time out, the game was inspired by two people. The first is Lacey from Don’t Make Drugs, who is inspiring so many posts on this blog lately that I should give her a cut...
Read more →Fun & Games with Jenners: Song Title Stories
by Jenners • 03/12/2010 • Fun and Games • 28 Comments
On Monday, I challenged you to write a story incorporating as many song titles as you possibly could. My story is below (and for extra bonus points, my story title is a song title too). All song titles are in bold. I’ve included Mr. Linky at the end for you to link up your...
Read more →Wanna Play A Game? Song Title Stories
by Jenners • 03/07/2010 • Fun and Games • 21 Comments
It has been a long time since I had a Fun and Games with Jenners so I thought it was about time to play the most sporadically appearing meme in the blog world. This time, the idea is to write a story incorporating as many song titles as you possibly can. Your story can...
Read more →Jasonlocks and the Three Girls: Game 12
by Jenners • 01/08/2010 • Fun and Games • 0 Comments
On Monday, I challenged you to rewrite a fairy tale by mixing it up with pop culture. This game was inspired by Lisa over at One Hip Mom, who has a fun post about Jack Bauer and the Beanstalk a few weeks ago. As I was working on my post, I kept getting hung...
Read more →Game 12: Mixing Pop Culture and Fairy Tales
by Jenners • 01/03/2010 • Fun and Games • 0 Comments
I thought it would be fun to kick off the new year with Game 12 of Fun and Games with Jenners. This time, the inspiration was a post over at Lisa’s wonderfully creative blog, One Hip Mom. Her post was entitled Jack Bauer and the Beanstalk and, as you might have guessed, it tells...
Read more →Over-The-Top Holiday Newsletters: Game 11
by Jenners • 12/11/2009 • Fun and Games • 0 Comments
For the latest game of Fun & Games with Jenners, I challenged you to write an over-the-top holiday newsletter. I have to say, this might have been my favorite game so far. I had sooooo much fun writing mine, and I cannot wait to see what you guys came up with. Mr. Linky is...
Read more →Game 11: Over-The-Top Holiday Letters
by Jenners • 12/07/2009 • Fun and Games • 0 Comments
Time for another edition of Fun & Games with Jenners! This time, the inspiration was a post over at Stacy’s Random Thoughts. In the post (which was part of an assignment for Sprite’s Keeper Spin Cycle), Stacy wrote an over-the-top version of a holiday newsletter. Here are some excerpts from Stacy’s post to give...
Read more →Game 10: Goofy Porn Movie Titles
by Jenners • 10/30/2009 • Fun and Games • 24 Comments
On Monday, I challenged you to come up with (or research) ridiculous porn movie titles. I thought this would be the perfect game for Mischief Night. I’m so looking forward to seeing what you came up with. Here are some that people submitted already, as well as some I came up with. From my...
Read more →Game 10: Let’s Make Up Porn Titles!
by Jenners • 10/25/2009 • Fun and Games • 11 Comments
Time for another edition of Fun and Game with Jenners! This time, I was inspired by last week’s 30 Rock episode, where Liz writes a porn episode of her life to make-up to Tracey for stealing his life for her book, Dealbreakers. At one point, they were talking about porn title movie parodies. I...
Read more →Game 9: Making It Up…Some What If Scenarios
by Jenners • 10/16/2009 • Fun and Games, Life • 15 Comments
So on Monday, I challenged you to: Write a short story based on a moment in your life that imagines what would have happened if you had made a different choice at that moment. For example, what if you hadn’t taken that job? What if you hadn’t said “yes” to the marriage proposal? If...
Read more →Game 9: Your Assignment Is To…Make It Up
by Jenners • 10/10/2009 • Fun and Games • 11 Comments
The other day, I was browsing on one of my favorite book blogs, Fizzy Thoughts, and saw a book review for a book called Making It Up by Penelope Lively. As soon as I read about the premise of the book, I knew it was going to be the next Fun and Games with...
Read more →Game 8: This Is Just To Say Poem Challenge
by Jenners • 10/02/2009 • Fun and Games • 17 Comments
So on Monday, I challenged you to write a version of William Carlos William’s poem, This Is Just To Say, with your own spin on it. For an example, I shared my friend’s naughty little spin. I took a crack at it myself and my versions are below. But first, the original poem. The...
Read more →It’s Back…Fun and Games with Jenners: This Is Just To Say
by Jenners • 09/28/2009 • Fun and Games • 12 Comments
My “long-time” readers know I like to play games every so often. We’ve done everything from play “Family Feud” to photo riddles to writing short stories inspired by songs. I’ve taken a pretty long break from the games but now it is back! The inspiration for this game was two-fold. First, on Friday I...
Read more →Game 7: Wacky Word Problems
by Jenners • 07/10/2009 • Fun and Games • 15 Comments
So on Monday, I challenged you to come up with word problems that were as ridiculous, detailed, impossible, stupid, and dramatic as possible. In other words, the math does not matter — though I’m sure SOME of you (Dan — I’m thinking of you if you did this!) probably took this part seriously and...
Read more →Fun and Games With Jenners – Game 7: Wacky Word Problems
by Jenners • 07/06/2009 • Fun and Games • 21 Comments
Time To Play Fun & Games With Jenners Again! This time out, the game was inspired by a post at the always wonderful and funny Jenni over at Jiggety Jigg. A while back, she has a post about a word problem in her son’s math homework that went like this:Each basket held 16 watermelons....
Read more →Game 6: Commencement Speech
by Jenners • 06/19/2009 • Fun and Games, Lessons Learned • 28 Comments
Welcome to Game 6 of Fun and Games with Jenners! This time out, we’re writing commencement speeches. Tonight was the Little One’s graduation from Pre-Kindergarten. (Yes…they have graduations for that!) It was really sweet and cute — lots of songs and saying what they want to be when they grow-up. For the record, the...
Read more →Fun and Games with Jenners – Game 6: Commencement Speech
by Jenners • 06/14/2009 • Fun and Games • 11 Comments
Guess what? Time to play Fun and Games with Jenners again! This game was inspired by Kisatrtle over at Kisatrtle’s Kreative Korner. She has been talking about how she loves covering commencement speeches for her local newspaper as a freelance writer. This made me wonder what it would be like to write my own...
Read more →Results for Game 5: Lit Riffs
by Jenners • 05/31/2009 • Fun and Games • 16 Comments
So last week — inspired by the book Lit Riffs – I challenged all of us to write a short story inspired by or based on a song. I won’t lie to you — I’m more uncomfortable writing short stories than I am writing blog posts. I’ve always found writing fiction to be difficult....
Read more →Fun and Games with Jenners: Game 5: Lit Riffs
by Jenners • 05/25/2009 • Fun and Games • 9 Comments
It is time to play Fun and Games with Jenners again! Once again, this game was inspired by a book I heard about. This time, the book is Lit Riffs (edited by Matthew Miele). The story behind this book is simple: 24 writers chose a song and then wrote a story inspired by it....
Read more →Genre Mash Up Highlights
by Jenners • 05/04/2009 • Fun and Games • 20 Comments
I’m so excited with what everyone came up with for the latest edition of Fun and Games with Jenners — you guys totally rocked it! I wanted to share some of the great ideas everyone came up with. They were too long to reprint here so I’m giving you a little preview and then...
Read more →Fun and Games: Genre Mash-Ups
by Jenners • 05/01/2009 • Fun and Games • 25 Comments
So on Monday, I challenge you (and myself) to take the new book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as an inspiration and write your own unlikely mash-ups of authors/genres/books. This turned out to be harder than I thought. Many of my original ideas just didn’t quite pan out, but I did manage to come...
Read more →Fun and Games With Jenners: Game 4: Mixing Up Genres
by Jenners • 04/26/2009 • Fun and Games • 21 Comments
It is time to play Fun and Games with Jenners again! This game is a bit challenging so I’ll give you all week to work on it — or longer if you feel you need more time. I don’t even have mine ready, but I’ll tell you what inspired this particular game. Have you...
Read more →Fun and Games With Jenners: Game 3 – Family Feud
by Jenners • 04/13/2009 • Fun and Games • 19 Comments
Yes, it is that time again. And yes, I still haven’t bothered to make a smaller or more attractive button or put it in some easily downloadable format. BUT I have been doing some thinking about these games and have come to the following conclusions. Two weeks is too long to run a game....
Read more →Fun and Games With Jenners: Game 2: Photo Riddles
by Jenners • 03/18/2009 • Fun and Games • 40 Comments
Are you ready for Game 2 of Fun and Games with Jenners? Here are the rules:I’ve hidden a nude photo of myself on the Internet.Go find it and give me the URL.First one to give the correct URL wins a million dollars. Just kidding. (Or am I?) Here is the real game, which was...
Read more →More Bad Writing Entries
by Jenners • 02/28/2009 • Fun and Games • 23 Comments
As promised, here are more of the hilarious Bad Writing entries from the debut of Fun & Games with Jenners. I am including one entry from each person who participated. If they had more than one entry, I picked the one that made me laugh the most. Thank you for everyone who played so...
Read more →I Almost Forgot … And Some of the Bad Writing Entries
by Jenners • 02/21/2009 • Fun and Games • 27 Comments
I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a belated Happy President’s Day! To commemorate this fine holiday, here is the Little One’s drawing of Abe Lincoln. I also wanted to share just a few of the hilarious Bad Writing entries that have been submitted so far. I don’t know if you have...
Read more →Fun and Games with Jenners – Game 1: Bad Writing
by Jenners • 02/16/2009 • Fun and Games • 35 Comments
Last week I created a meme. Now I’m ready to launch a Mr. Linky-based interactive game. Next week I take over the Internet, and my quest for world domination will be complete. Just kidding…but I was just thinking it would be fun to host a game every so often and to invite you all...
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