The Daily Story Challenge

Update: as of November 8th, 2011, the daily story challenge is OVER! 365 stories in 365 days, pretty good considering I'm bad at consistency. Anyway, this is over now so this is just a regular ol' blog now. Latest entry is just below this one.

It started as a challenge to write a single, coherent story with a decent plot and length of at least half a page every day for an entire year. It then changed to writing a single, coherent story with a decent plot every day for an entire year. Then it changed to writing something that was pretty close to being a story every day for an entire year. Now it's pretty much 'write something that resembles a story and average one per day for an entire year,' and so far I have been successful. I like to post things in order so I'll be re-posting all the older stories from my livejournal in numerical order before I get going with the newer ones, but if you want to read these older stories, you can. They're here and I'll continue posting them on my livejournal until I get bored or I complete the year-long journey of story postage.


I caught up with the older stories, so I am now updating daily (or close to daily) and things are good and stuff.  Not updating my livejournal anymore, though.  Too much effort.

Daily Story 365 - LAST DAY WHOOOOO

About friggin' time, too. I can only write so much about inanimate objects doing strange things before I get bored.
What I've learned from this experience:
1. I cannot stick to a daily posting schedule.
2. I'd rather just write blogs.
3. Coming up with random titles is an excellent way to get a good story idea going.
4. It's hard to take advantage of a blog when you're using it for a project you're not too fond of to begin with.
5. I don't want to think of anything else I've learned right now.
6. It feels nice to actually accomplish a goal instead of giving up halfway. Even though I didn't anticipate getting behind so often and all that, I still managed to do this for a year, and that's pretty impressive for me.


Anyway, now that I'm done, I've decided to do something more exciting with this blog. I'm going to... write blog posts! About whatever I want! And they'll be awesome! Also they'll probably be more on a weekly or twice-weekly basis, rather than attempting to be daily. I won't decide on a day yet because I know I won't be able to stick to an arbitrary date, but I'm sure there'll be some sort of predictable routine on here from now on. I hope you'll have fun.

Daily Story 364 - Cheese Bag

A bag full of cheese is a cheesy bag indeed.

Daily Story 363 - Too Many Funny Occurrences

It is said that it is possible to die of laughter. This is why it is never wise to go to a comedy show when one has a belly ache.

Daily Story 362 - Funny Occurrence

One morning, a man decided to tell a joke to his wife. She found the joke hilarious and laughed for ten minutes before she could calm down.

Daily Story 361 - Yet Another Strange Occurrence

Two days before Tuesday (though I can't remember which Tuesday it was), there was a giant monster made of gummi bears and toilet paper. The frightened townspeople quickly managed to defeat the giant monster, and they made good use of its remains.

Daily Story 360 - Another Strange Occurrence

One morning, a picture frame decided it wanted to be a contortionist. It quickly gave up on its dream, however, when it tried to bend over backwards and broke the glass on the picture within.

Daily Story 359 - Sleepy Tulips

Most tulips prefer to sleep when they are tired. It makes them ever so much more pleasant when they are awake.

Daily Story 358 - Evil Websites

Once upon a time, a writer decided to challenge herself by writing 365 stories in 365 days. Her attempts to share these stories with the internet were thwarted, however, when the site she wished to post them on decided to take at least half an hour to let her sign in.

Daily Story 357 - Snowy Days

A few weeks ago, it snowed in my little town. A few days ago, it snowed again. Snow is so nice and fluffy. It's pretty, too, which is a good thing, seeing as we'll be staring at it for six months straight now.

Daily Story 356 - Halloween

Candy canes and gumdrops and whiskers on kittens are some of the best things ever, but only gumdrops fit into the whole Halloween theme. Though if one had a bunch of kitten whiskers strewn about the walkway leading to the front porch, it would likely give the trick-or-treaters a scare worth remembering. I would not suggest trying this, however. From what I've heard, kittens are rather attached to their whiskers.

Daily Story 355 - Yellow Slime

One day, a kid went out and bought some yellow slime. Her mother threw it away almost immediately, however, saying, "Slime is gross when it's yellow." The kid didn't really care, as she thought her mother made a valid point.

Daily Story 354 - Slow Days

There was once a time when days spanned 5,000 hours. This is probably still happening on some planets, I'm just not sure which.

Daily Story 353 - Strange Occurrence

One day a toaster woke up and decided it wanted to be a ballerina. Nobody was really sure why, because the toaster had two left feet.

Daily Story 352 - Bouncing Kitties

One day, a mother cat gave birth to five lovely kittens. There was trouble afoot, however, as this mother lived on top of a very tall hill, and one day, when the kittens were learning to walk, one walked off the edge of a small cliff and fell.

Fortunately, the kitten was all right, for it was a very bouncy kitten, and it soon proved to be the same for all the other kittens. Thus, life was good for the kitty family.

Daily Story 351 - Walls

Sometimes, one will get a strange feeling as they walk by a house. This feeling comes from the unnerving sensation that the house is moving, when in fact it is simply standing still, as houses tend to do most of the time. However, if one can spy on a house without it knowing, then they may see the house start to dance. The walls sway in unison and everything is happy. Nothing inside the house falls out of place, as it all joins in on the dance. This only happens when a house is unoccupied, however, as houses do prefer to avoid any unfortunate dancing accidents that might occur to people inside.

Daily Story 350 - Bread

I made bread the other day. It is delicious.

Daily Story 349 - Fish

Fish go blub. They also swim.

Daily Story 326 - Three Hundred and Two Moppy Bits

The boring mop was tired of counting. It knew beyond a doubt that it had 302 moppy bits at its bottom, and it wanted something better to do. It decided to look for patterns in the metal of the metal room it was contained in. One day it found a butterfly.

Daily Story 324 - The Boring Mop Eats People

There was a man who lived in the city by the desert who spent his time investigating strange inanimate objects. His latest investigation was of a mop that seemed to be rather boring, but had apparently tried to eat a yellow chair belonging to some orphans. The man put the mop under observation for twelve hours, then began to experiment on it. He soon discovered something rather alarming. The mop not only had a taste for yellow chairs, but it also had a taste for human flesh. This would be rather troubling if the mop were to go back to residing in someone's house, and so, the man locked the mop away in a metal room with walls that would be impossible for the mop to bite into or digest.