Writing Challenge 2024

Introduction

Hello! I'm gonna do my friend's writing challenge! Hopefully it goes better than the November one I had to abandon (thanks covid). See here for a list of everyone else doing it.

Yay for writing in the New Year! If you are interested in joining, let me know and I can hook you the heck up. We have a group chat. We may develop a more arcane form of communication. Who knows!

Rules

Here are the rules I am adopting (specific to this challenge):

• Write every day. (note that writing does legally include staring at a blank document for half an hour, getting frustrated, and giving up. It's the attempt that counts)
• Publish pieces when finished. (note that this will not be daily because I like my longer pieces)
• Publish unfinished things when abandoning them. (if visual artists can post sketches and get away with it, so can i)
• At least once a week, write something on the themes Alice will be coming up with
• At least once a week, write something based on something someone else wrote
• In the event of illness, all obligations are suspended (yay health)

The challenge lasts for 100 days.

I'm, uh, already behind at being on topic. Whoops! I'll try for both this week's theme and last week's theme in the next couple days.

List of Posts

If I publish something on a given day, I will link it. Otherwise, I will list what writing I did that day.

January

1. Last Weekend
2. The Perils of Online Dating
3. Thoughtknife
4. The Names of Hurricanes
5. Graffiti
6. I Am The Monster
7. The Office Of Dr. Rosario
8. On Hames, inspired by Ollie!
9. No entry, had really bad headache
10. Weave (on the week 2 theme: "weave")
11. Eat Me (just like, massive content warning), inspired by Alice!
12. Wrote most of, but didn't finish, a smut
13. I Write Better Horny
14. Listen Please
15. The Tower
16. Ocean Acidic (on the week 3 theme: "submerge")
17. No writing, busy with work. Sad.
18. No writing, still busy with work. Sad.
19. Dragonslaying
20. No writing, exhausted from work.
21. click [[here]] to self destruct
22. No writing, recovering from health problems.
23. No writing, recovering from health problems.
24. No writing, recovering from health problems.
25. Last Call Home
26. There's a Worm In My Spine by Ollie.
27. Infinity
28. Wrote but didn't finish a few small things
29. Telephone
30. Hurt (on the week 5 theme: "transhumanist")
31. No writing, recovering from health problems.

February

1. No writing, recovering from health problems.
2. No writing, recovering from health problems.
3. No writing, recovering from health problems.
4. No writing, recovering from health problems.
5. Bones (on the week 6 theme: "medium")
6. No writing, recovering from health problems.
7. Wrote something too personal to post.
8. Wrote a couple thousand words on an unfinished project.
9. No writing, recovering from health problems.
10. Wrote a couple thousand words on an unfinished project.
11. No writing, recovering from health problems.
12. Killing Dark Magic
13. Bad Days

Other

I also have 5 other unrelated goals for the whole of 2024 that I want to get in writing (haha see what I did there):

1. Write at least 200,000 words
2. Write a complete novel of at least 50,000 words
3. Found a zine for short writing
4. Get at least one thing published professionally
5. Read at least 2 novels a month

The first will be measured by the word count visible on this page. I finished the year almost exactly on 100,000, so I just need a nice and easy 300,000. This is double what I achieved last year, very achievable given that most of my writing was in the last 3 months.

Snippets of the second may be posted while it is in progress.

There will be lots more info to come on the third because like, I'll need submissions. I just think it would be cool to have a lil queer horror writing collection. Might not happen if I can't get enough people to contribute. Such is life.

The fourth one is a little outside of my control. I'll try for it, but it may not happen and I'm okay with that.

That last one is super important! You can't create without building on what came before. I'm gonna finally reactivate my library card and then try to do classic horror and sci fi novels.

Those are my specific goals. Now I am accountable. The horror.