The 2025 One Funny Line Challenge

We'll be back January 13th through the 17th

Just a quick note to let you know that I am going to be running the second annual One Funny Line writing challenge from January 13th through 17th, 2025.

If you are new to the challenge, it is designed to be an easy-to-accomplish humor writing challenge where you just need to write one funny line a day. The line might lead to something longer or might just be a quick writing exercise — the idea is to just get a little writing in and perhaps spark some new ideas or jokes.

You can read more about the first one here.

In 2025 I’m going to try to do a quick and easy version of the challenge which will include:

• A shorter 5-day long challenge

• Prompts provided by me rather than guest writers this time around.

More details:

• How it works: If you are signed up for the challenge, each day on Monday, January 13th through Friday, January 17th you will receive a prompt for writing one funny line. I will also post the prompts to the Humor Me chat and in Substack Notes since that seemed to work well last year.

• Sharing your lines: During the challenge, you can share what you write in the comments, chat, Substack Notes, or on social media (feel free to use the hashtag #OneFunnyLine). Or you can just write the lines in your computer or diary. Sharing is not required.

• Humor writers of all levels are welcome. The challenge is designed to be easy to accomplish and will hopefully help us all write a little more humor in January. You need not be an experienced humor writer to join and I want this to be a supportive environment for writers of all levels.

• You can opt in or out of receiving more messages on the challenge: If you received this message, then you are currently signed up for the challenge-related emails and don’t need to do anything if you want to continue receiving them. If you want to stop receiving challenge emails or want to opt in for the first time, you’ll need to adjust your preferences (I believe you need to be on a computer rather than mobile/the app for this):

  When you click the above link you should be sent to a “Manage Your Subscription” page. On that page, you should see a “Notifications” section that looks like this:

Click on the button next to your desired section to either opt in or out of the sections you want to receive.

That’s it! Looking forward to writing some jokes with you in January.

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