#365k challenge

[poubelle-squelette]

365k - September!

First check-in for the 365k word challenge. I started this month and I did my best to try and write a little every day. Wow! It was fucking hard, lmao.

So, I didn’t end up getting to write every day, and I ended up slacking for a little over a week from the whole month. But 27k words is actually a LOT of writing, so I’m not too upset that I didn’t make my monthly goal. I’m proud that I’m actually writing at all, since I had given it up for so long. 

Here is the breakdown for the daily word count:

I definitely started the month out SUPER strong and it sort of died towards the end. A lot has been happening this month though and I think it’s true of any new goal. You ALWAYS start out really strong because you’re motivated. Hopefully I can get that level of motivation back through October. I have a lot to write this month LOL

Anyway, I’m really hoping to finish this challenge because I want to get better as a writer and really let myself enjoy my hobby (and this will hopefully remind me to actually write during my free time instead of being a potato)

<3 best of luck to myself and anyone else out there who is a writer!

[sendryl]

365k - 11,004 - Jan 15

“You told me that you want children as well. How many do you want?”

I’m not sure. We could start with one and keep going from there. Seffie is having a hard time eating, sneaking bites in between signs and grinning around every mouthful. Do you want a Spring or a Summer wedding?

Owen chokes on his bacon, coughing and staring at Seffie. She tries to hide her smile behind a mug of coffee.

~~~

I promise to always roll my eyes at your puns.

“You liked that one. You can’t fool me!” Owen laughs, watching Seffie, who is rolling her eyes and grinning at him.

They banter back and forth as they finish the food, topics of conversation ranging from relationships to past jobs to recommended books to child rearing possibilities.

[checkeredwithflame]

Im writing my 1k for today, my first 1k in the 365k challenge, and what do I write? Lesbians trying to flirt with each other. I didn’t mean to write this at all, I started the exercise wanting my character to get to this secret meeting thing and get down to business. But then she walked through a market, and this woman she’s friends with is there, and her friend buys her a silk scarf to tie her hair up with and the scene completely got away from me but it’s wonderful and I love them.

[sunflowervoltwentyeight]

Below are my fav fics I've read in 2022, in no particular order.  Some old, some new...but all amazing. Enjoy!!! 💖

💙Of Mates and Men by @bananaheathen (630k)

In which, Louis and Harry meet as best men for their best friends' wedding... well... sort of. Or, the one where Harry's just moved back from New York and Louis doesn't believe in romance. Or, I guess... the one where Zayn and Liam are getting married.

💚Bloodsport by @isthatyoularry (172k, WIP)

How come falling in love with the person he hated most was so easy?

Who the hell did this guy think he was? How could he stand there on the pavement, gorgeous and beautiful, and make Harry fall back into a swirl of desire, when fifteen minutes ago he made his skin prickle with hurt? God, he hated him. He wanted to bash his face into bits. The problem was that more than that, he wanted to kiss him. Between the two options, he would instantaneously choose the second.

A mortal enemies with benefits story with a touch of football, lust, and family drama.

The Unbelievers Story from Harry's point of view.

💙Yeah, He's A Looker (But I Really Think It's Guts That Matter Most) by @thedevilinmybrain (40k)

Five times Oli was asked to do something that was outside of his job description, and the one time he didn't have to be asked.

💚For the Right Reasons by @juliusschmidt (105k)

Harry doesn’t agree to be the Bachelor expecting to find love. He’s just hoping for an exciting jaunt around the world, half a dozen new friends, and, if he’s lucky, an amazing hj or two.

Louis may have signed up to be a contestant on the Bachelor, but he’s not interested a ring or a proposal, not from Harry, not from anyone. He wouldn’t turn down a few more Instagram followers, though.

💙Through the Chaos and the Calm by @xogucciblue (25k)

Harry had thought he’d been prepared for his first solo tour, and in some ways it is exactly what Harry expected. But in other ways it’s entirely different. It’s lonelier than he remembered, all the waiting around backstage, the endless hours on tour buses, the days he’s so tired he thinks he could melt into the asphalt of a rest stop in the middle of America and happily stay there forever, and the nights he’s too keyed up to sleep. It’s alienating. He feels unmoored, drowning in all of his too-big emotions. Without the chaos of four other boys to keep him distracted, to keep him grounded, he’s afraid it's only a matter of time until he loses himself in it for good.

But then there’s Louis. Through it all, there’s still Louis. Waiting for Harry at the end of every show, ready with a bottle of water and sweet words of praise, beside him in dressing rooms, challenging him to ping pong tournaments to pass the long, empty, waiting hours, and holding him through the restless nights, soothing him with reassurances that he’s there, that he understands, and promising that he will never, ever, let Harry truly get lost.

💚Hiding Place by orphan_account (365k)

Louis never wanted a soulmate, didn’t really care for the whole Bonding thing at all, really. Enter Harry Styles, who’s wanted to be Bonded for as long as he could remember. With one fateful meeting in an X Factor bathroom, Louis gets a dagger on his arm and the realization that just because Harry is his soulmate doesn’t mean it’s mutual.

From the X Factor house to Madison Square Garden, from the Fountain Studios stage to stadiums across the world, Louis has to learn to love without losing himself completely, because someday his best friend will Bond to someone and replace Louis as the center of his universe. Meanwhile, Harry begins to think that maybe fate doesn’t actually know what it’s doing after all, because his other half has clearly been right in front of him the whole time. All he has to do now is convince Louis to give them a chance.

Or, the canon compliant Harry and Louis love story from the very beginning, where the only difference is that the love between them is literally written on their skin, and there’s only so much they can hide.

💙One More Time Again by orphan_account (232k)

Harry looks down to where Louis is cradling his hand between his own. Louis' hands are slender, the bones delicate, the nails bitten short. The 2-8 on the backs of his fingers is gone, but the faded scar from a skateboarding mishap in Year 7 is still there.

Harry's hand is awkward, knobby-boned and naked, no rings, no tattoos. It's too big for his wrist and his wrist too big for his arm. Yet it still somehow fits in Louis' in the painfully perfect way it always did.

He blinks back the sting in his eyes.

On the morning of his second sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden, Harry wakes up to find that he's sixteen years old, on The X Factor, and that he has a chance to make things right.

A canon-compliant fix-it fic (sort of).

💚Given A Chance by Fabby @fabby1d (173k)

Five years after One Direction took their last tour, the last thing Louis Tomlinson ever expected to happen while on a tea run at the local Piggly Wiggly was to run into his ex-boyfriend and ex-bandmate Harry Styles.

The odds of them ever running into each other again had to be super slim, right?

Wrong.

What happens when you mix ex-boyfriends with a large serving of Small Town America? Will Louis and Harry be able to set aside their differences, or will Louis be able to stay breezy as fuck in the wake of Harry’s arrival?

(or, the one where Louis and Harry run into each other five years after One Direction ends and learn how to love each other again. Featuring: Reggie as the overweight labrador, Niall as Louis’ last grip on reality, and Nowheresville, North Carolina as the setting for Louis’ worst nightmare to come true.)

💙Loved By Your Mother by superglass @gaymoustache​ (31k)

Harry stretches out like Venus with her lover, growing sleepy in the late afternoon light with a baby growing inside her. Perhaps not literally, not physically. Not exactly.

or

Harry struggles to come to terms with wanting to have children, and what that means for their relationship. Canon compliant, set a few years into the future.

💚Time Passed by coffinofachimera (66k)

Louis struggles with their relationship as Harry grows into his identity.

[rabbitcrimes]

WANGXIAN FIC REC: Little Miss Horror Show

Fics that feature yiling laozu delights and demonic cultivation related horror elements

🌟 No night as deep as my night by Orange_crushed - 17k Summary: Wangji shuts his eyes and rocks A-Yuan and thinks about Wei Ying, Wei Ying. The sound of his laugh; the rage in his eyes at any cruelty, no matter how small. Water running down his face, mixed with tears and mud in the rain. The smell of his sweat and his combing-oil when he stood too close in the cold spring. His face when he’d said, I’ll carry you, too many years ago. If there is anything left of him, Wangji will still love it. It’s not even a question.

When he opens his eyes all the candles in the room sputter at once, and go out.

And then they come back again, as easily as they were extinguished. Wangji looks up, to find a tall shadow in the doorway.

Wangji is not afraid.

“Wei Ying,” he says. “Come in.”

🌟 the necromancer's fairytale by Iliacquer - 17k Summary: The Prince of Gusu is kidnapped for ransom. He’s saved by a nightmare made flesh.

Or: A necromancer, his palace of bones, his long-lost husband, and the rise of their dark kingdom.

🌟 rare the man who'll hold to faith by Fahye - 13k Summary: There was no blood. No char. There was nothing to see except the strange softening of the Yiling Patriarch's mouth, as if just for a moment he was another person entirely.

"There is the mark of our bargain, and here is the challenge," said the Yiling Patriarch. "You may strike at me, exactly once, with your sword. I will not fight back; I will not resist you at all, Hanguang-jun." That silvery suggestiveness crept into his voice again. "And a year and a day from now, you will come to me and I will deliver exactly the same to you."

Lan Wangji heard his brother's voice raised in sharp and incomprehensible protest. His own heart was beating too loudly for him to hear anything else.

🌟 addition recs under the cut 🌟

🌟 Howling by MimiSpearmint - 40k Summary: “Sizhui, go to the kitchen,” the Yiling Patriarch orders. His charge – Sizhui, Lan Wangji presumes – hesitates but obeys, looking back over his shoulder as he disappears. Apprentice out of the blast zone, the Patriarch storms up to Lan Wangji, eyes flashing red. “Three words: I. Am. Retired.”

Lan Wangji is sent by the Institute to do two things: become the Yiling Patriarch's familiar, and report back his every movement. It does not go how any of them planned.

🌟 my chain hits my chest / when im bangin' on the radio by x_los 2k Summary: Lan Wangji finds he doesn't even need to call for help for Wei Wuxian to come running.

help is on the way by vamillepuddling - 15k Summary: “There,” the Yiling Patriarch says. “Now all that’s missing is a throne. Would you like one?”

“I have no interest in ruling,” Lan Wangji says.

“What is it that holds Hanguang-jun’s interest, then?”

Lan Wangji presses his lips together, unwilling to meet the Yiling Patriarch’s gaze.

(The Yiling Patriarch wins. Lan Wangji is left behind on the fields of the dead and appoints himself a task.)

love what's burning right in front of you by seularen - 10k Summary: It didn’t matter. None of it mattered. There was only saving Lan Wangji, and what he was willing to do to accomplish that.

Or: someone tries to assassinate Hanguang-jun. The Yiling Laozu comes calling. tie a knife with a ribbon by iliacquer - 5k Summary: The Yiling Patriarch makes a bargain with the cultivation world. He'll give them the power to defeat Wen Ruohan. No more death. No more war.

All he wants in return is Lan Wangji.

better things to do with a flute during wartime by Anonymous - 365k Summary: Wei Wuxian stabs somebody with his flute. Nie Mingjue tries to fix things with his dick. Lan Wangji pines in a non-communicative fashion.

Or: in the fourth month of the Sunshot Campaign, Nie Mingjue notices that Wei Wuxian is showing symptoms of imminent qi deviation. He takes steps to try to mitigate the fallout—and the course of the war changes, first slowly, then much less slowly... Notes: this one is NMJ/WWX/LWJ

Once upon a midnight dreary by vamillepuddling - 15k

Summary: On the joyous occasion of the second Lan heir's birth celebration, a terrible shadow falls when the Yiling Patriarch arrives, much displeased that he wasn't invited. 20 years later, Lan Wangji learns the terrible price he extracted, and knows that he has only three weeks of freedom left until he meets the man again.

*

“Compensation,” the Yiling Patriarch echoes. “I like the sound of that. What will you give me? Gold? Jewels? Weapons?”

“Name your prize,” Lan Qiren repeats.

The Yiling Patriarch smiles again. He says, “Your nephew will do.”

when I look over my shoulder by cafecliche - 10k Summary: When you let the dead in, it takes a toll on you. There hasn’t been a single exception in history.

(Or: second heir to the renowned Lan exorcist clan Lan Zhan takes medium Wei Ying home after a difficult exorcism. He's in for a long night.)

This Tornado Loves You by feelsforbreakfast - 8k Summary: Hanguang-jun is dating a mild mannered, non-cultivator named Wei Wuxian. The Yiling Laozu rolls up to a nighthunt on a motorbike, no relation at all to the previous statement.

[buylosecontrol-moved-blog]

96/365 ᴅᴀʏs ᴏғ ᴋɪᴍ ᴊᴏɴɢɪɴ

[suteshiro]

It astonishes me how easy it is to “fix” Conqueror of Shamballa’s ending when it comes to Alfons’s death

Like. You just have the military dude that killed him not be near when he launches the rocket, or even just react late enough for Alfons to be able to get away and thats??? it.

[starlightswitch]

494 words, journal and story. I had RCIA, I helped with Christmas sweets, and I was lazy. Oh, and I changed the links on my blog. Writing supplies: laptop (story) Visconti Homo Sapiens with Nemosine Solar Storm 1859 from a sample (journal) Progress: 341.940k/347day As of today I am 6k behind. Also starting to think about whether I should do this next year. I'll do the challenge, certainly, especially if I just miss 365k, but I don't want to continue daily posts on here if it's annoying.

[nicolawritesnovels]

Day 323, 11/19

Starting Word Count: 362,212 words

Ending Word Count: 368,284 words

New Words: 6,072 words

NaNoWriMo: 50,102 words

Progress:

I hit 50k on NaNo today! I went to a write-in and decided on the way there that it would be a good idea to shoot for 50k today even though that meant I would have to write 6k, but I did it!

meaning that novel #40, Kill Your Demons, is officially a novel. which is pretty exciting. 

also, which I did not realize until just now, I have past 365k for the 365k365day challenge. which means that challenge is officially met as well! I’m going to keep trying to write every day though. 

so all in all, very successful day

Katie is no longer trapped in the radio

Corrie is in way over her head

I don’t think she actually ended up going out with Kati, but tbh, I’m not sure

she’s about to make some bad choices

the ground was struck by lightning. there is more going on with the lightning. 

Music: the noise of the Panera bread I was sitting in

[nano-writer]

365k update, day 163

For the past two and a half weeks, an awful cold has wiped the floor with me (I'd like to say I fought it but, with all of the coughing and head aches, that thing kicked my ass). While I was able to get a few words in, most of the time was spent napping (and coughing. If coughing was an Olympic sport, I would've brought home the gold). Over the past couple of days, though, I've begun feeling good. The coughing has gradually wound down and I can breathe deeply again. Writing is a little challenging, though. After getting into the habit of writing every day, I'm now out of practice. The 365k challenge helped me get my writing legs back once, though, so I have faith it'll do so again. Since I feel like I'm starting over, I'm going to... START OVER!!! So, today's word count: 0 Total words so far: 0 And, to remind myself that it all builds up, here's my super secret word count (I may start over from time to time but I still like keeping track of how much I've actually done ;): 192,760

[poubelle-squelette]

Hi! So I'm sorry if you've been asked this in the past but I know you and Rehlia did that 365k writing challenge thing? I was just wondering how you get started with that and if there's a link to it you can give or something?

it’s just a challenge to write 365k words in a year, or about 1000 words per day. there isn’t a link that i know of, i just track all my stuff in an excel worksheet

speaking of, i need to post my stuff for november and december because i forgot LOL

but yeah. it’s just writing and keeping track of what you write. so for october my sheet looked like this:

if you go to my tumblr or rehlia’s and do  /tagged/365k you can see other posts that show monthly updates and such

good luck! :D

[sendryl]

365k - 5824 - Jan 11

She saw no sign of other people traveling the path - only animal signs and bent grass beds from the deer she knew must have slept there. There had to be a sizable herd living in the area, accounting for the dozens of beds she spotted along the trail.

Eventually she made it to the dried-up spring, and she sat at its edge, pressing her hand into the dry earth. She hummed a few bars of an old song, and then began to sing, thinking of the spring that had grown beside her, bubbling up from the ground as she finished high school and went to college, clear, fresh water from the cracked, foul dirt. She missed it terribly.

Seffie laid herself down on the dirt and sang quietly.

She watched the sky, the swaying grass, the ladybugs flying overhead.

She got to work immediately after dinner, walked out to the meadow for a few night songs to clear her head, and fell into bed, exhausted.

The next few weeks went by much the same as that first day, save one important detail.

At the end of the spring semester, she was due to give a series of pep talks over video to her old university’s student teachers. Pep signs. Whatever. Apparently she was an expert at getting the squirts to behave - something Beth always got a kick out of, considering how little attention anyone paid Seffie in high school.

But for whatever reason, Seffie’s students paid attention when she instructed them, and they listened when she played and taught them to play the various instruments at their disposal.

Seffie’s evenings were spent creating and filming the pep signs, and then it was back to the meadow to watch the stars and sing to them.

The only major difference from that first day was that on Seffie’s second day back home in HollyOak, she called the realtor from the flyer. She also learned that placing creepy, full-sized naked dolls around a house tended to bring down the property value.

The man wanted the house gone, and he sold it for a song. Almost literally.

[zurastar]

May - 2017 - 365k / 365 Days Writing Challenge

Words written this month: 22,038 Projects: TLoU/SPN Fanfiction, Gembloods, Rings, Dreams Writing days: 24/31 Average words per day: 711 Max words in one day: 4,253 % of total goal: 6% % of monthly goal: 49%

Words written so far this year: 128,148 % of total goal completed so far: 35%

[agwitow]

So what's your plan for the 365k? Is it all going into the same book or do you have several projects going? How do you feel about it so far? Is 1k/day pushing you along and making you better by practicing, or do you feel like it's more pressure than help? (I was thinking of starting doing something like this too but am unsure about the commitment right now!)

Hi @elsterwords :)

So for me, #365k365day is more about making sure I write more. 1k a day is a pretty easy amount for me to hit–when I actually sit down and write. (It’s more difficult to hit when I only give myself 25% credit for things being edited)

By my understanding of the challenge, you can use any writing related activity towards your “word count”–so things like world building, outlining, character sketches, and editing can all count. Which does allow for a start-to-finish project through the challenge. How you credit yourself for each writing related activity is up to you. As I mentioned, I give myself 25% credit during editing (100% credit if I have to do a complete rewrite of a chapter/scene). I also give myself credit for 45 words per minute for other activities (making it 2.7k words per hour) as my actual wpm is somewhere between 70 and 80. How you decide to give credit for these things is something you need to figure out for yourself (and don’t be afraid to say editing is worth 50% or more if you feel like it takes you a lot of time and effort to edit, or if you’re making a lot of changes)

As for projects, right now I’m working on editing Poseidon’s Wrath (the sequel to Legend’s Legacy) so it can go through the beta reader process and then be sent off to a professional editor. I expect to be done editing in the next week or two.

Next, I have a set of (unrelated) short stories that I keep putting off, so I’m gonna get those done and edited. (Aiming to be done by July)

After that, I think the rest of the year will be spent working on the first novel in a new series. It’s…proving to be a difficult one. This will be my third rewrite of it. If this attempt goes well and I (somehow) end up with more time, then I’m not sure what I’ll work on. Maybe the first draft of Eloise?

So far, I’m behind by about 13k–not horrible, but not great either. I’m hopeful that I can get caught up by July though! (I just have to make sure I actually sit down and write)

Thanks for asking!

[scarletjedi]

Camp Nano begins on April 1st

So I just signed up with a “short story” collection with the intention of getting 50k written towards my various WIPs, including the various unfilled prompts still in my inbox. 

Hopefully, This will also put me back on track for my 365k in 365 days challenge. 

[writeous]

356k in 365 Days Update

Okay, so I’m still doing 365k in 365 days... kind of. This past month I had a lot going on, so I failed to write every single day. However, I did manage to write most days, and I’m currently in the process of going through my various Word documents and calculating how much I wrote; the spreadsheet I made for this challenge has not been kept very up to date these past few weeks, so it’s been a bit challenging what was written in April and what was written beforehand.

I’m out of school for the summer, so I’ve been able to keep up a semi-regular writing schedule (to be updated on this blog soon), and I should be able to do so for the rest of May! 

(Hopefully. We’ll see how this goes.)