anarchycox | Entries tagged with writing challenge

Start: January 2019

End: December 2019

Goal: 52 one shots

Guidelines:

Each one shot is not to exceed 5,000 words

There is a wiggle allowance of 1% on word count

They are not connected to any previously created universe

One story a month can be added to a list to possibly be expanded later

One story every two months can receive one companion/sequel prompt

There is no set post date. Just in the period of Monday-Sunday once a week a story must appear

Prompts are from a list I have. A random number generator will pick the prompt

Each week I can reroll the number twice if what comes up doesn’t work for me

If I successfully complete 11 of 12 months following the rules come January 2020 I can do whatever I want with anything written

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so I created this challenge for myself because I am notorious for saying something is going to be a brief one shot and then it turns into a giant fic. I don't want to always write 40-60k fics with five different stories. I want to hone my skills at creating small and complete worlds and this is pretty low stakes. It says a max of 5k which means it could be as few as 500 words. I am hoping that this will create really interesting and different takes than my writing often does.