Dear Wonderful Online Friends and Folks,
You are a big part of the reason I am where I am today, writing and loving it, stretching my wings, digging back into poetry, and muddling my way into this brave new world of entrepreneurship. You have listened to my good times and my bad times and cheered me on and chatted shop and fandom and original creativity and all the bridges between. We've talked tea, we've talked fiction, we've talked about the influences on our lives. It's been a wonderful year.
Looking back, I see things I want to do differently in the upcoming year, things I used to write about that I want to write about again, things I want to cull off this site and clean up into something worthwhile. Most of all, I want to reach out to the community of friends I have here that I've been missing more than I can say.
I've been wanting to do a 365 challenge for the new year, particularly inspired by the Paperback Writer's artist trading card challenge and Elsie Larson's photography challenge, and I want to stretch myself, make myself grow into what I can become as a writer and creator. I'd like to write 365 pieces of poetry and fiction to prompts.
This means I need help. I need prompts. Poetry, songs, colors, favorite lines, etc. Every few weeks or so, I'll probably set up another prompt post and call out for what I need to get started. I want to write original work, but knowing me, the occasional bit of fandomness will sneak in. This is more exciting to me than I can say for some reason, and I'm hoping you will all help me as I reach out to create an average of one piece a day.
Love you all. You are the best. :hugs:
the scribbler
The Rules
Goal: 365 total stories/poems averaging 1 piece a day
Flash Fiction (1000 words or less) = 1 piece
Short Story (1001–7500 words) = 2 pieces
Novelette (7501–17500 words) = 4 pieces
Novella (17500–40000 words) = 7 pieces
Novel (40000 words or more) = 10 pieces
Poem (1–100 lines) = 1 piece
Poem (101–250 lines) = 2 pieces
Long poem (251+ lines) = 4 pieces
365 Challenge Updates | Livejournal 365 Challenge Tag
1/365: Tenderness
Renaiven was known as a harsh man, but almost no one knew why.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
200 words
200 words
2–3/365: A Letter to Fellow Historical Intern, Whom I Named Huerél
Vardin is not the same without you here to taste the rain.
A letter from one Academy Library intern to another, asking for a return to Vardin and an opinion on a proposed law by the new Queen.
Science Fiction Fantasy Letter
1408 words
1408 words
4/365: Remembering Lena
Wesley thought he knew why he borrowed the books. He wanted a reason to come back.
Every week for the last three months, Wesley Bryn has showed up at Pretty Things to return a book to the proprietor and borrow another. The reason is as much a mystery to him as to her.
Fantasy Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
939 words
939 words
5–6/365: Girls That Go Bump in the Mind
What you don't know can hurt you.
No one realized just how deep the animosity between telepaths went until sweet, self-sacrificing, foolish Scott Summers offered to help Emma Frost with her homework—and she brought her study partner, Jean Grey, along for the ride.
X-Men Evolution Fanfic
1016 words
1016 words
7/365: The Perfect Woman
This will not do! For what I am / Is woman, not a female man.
Lyric Poem
16 lines
16 lines
8/365: Winter Rose
She wants a bloom that lives beyond a week.
Every week, Wesley comes to borrow and return a book. Lena wants the rose to live until he comes.
Fantasy Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
200 words
200 words
9/365: Edge of Salvation, Edge of Fear
What if every thought could write reality?
Markus was afraid to open the books, even if by doing so he could save them.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
10–11/365: Beneath the Icewood Trees
What is fae and what is magic?
Eried Black is a son of a privileged house, one granted magic to guard and use and sell. When he sees it used amiss, it angers him, but has he finally gotten in over his head?
Science Fiction Fantasy Short Story
1277 words
1277 words
12–13/365: Queen of Heaven
The Queen of Heaven should not care / When lost were all the reeling stars / The Queen of Heaven tossed her hair / Retorted, "Don't you know what's ours"
Fantasy Narrative Poem
124 lines
124 lines
14–15/365: Welcome
Cate shouldn't have asked, but she did.
Rachelle would rather be anywhere else than the newly formed Special Unit, doing the work she used to be enslaved to. But she will. For Cate.
Science Fiction Short Story
1042 words
1042 words
16/365: Hunt the Mists
He wanted to change the way things were.
Bryn wants to guard their own lands and the outsiders who stumble upon them, but he is no hunter and only the hunters wander out into the mists.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
353 words
353 words
17/365: The Un-Study
Knowledge solid, fluid (is) / Unlearning ev'rything.
Lyric Poem
16 lines
16 lines
18/365: How We Write Poetry
Answer, turn and answer / Then turn the stone again
Science Fiction Fantasy Poem
13 lines
13 lines
19/365: Battery Acid
Battery acid is caustic, but indispensable.
Justus had found the Database’s company to be tolerable, but sometimes she was a little too sharp when he was already feeling raw.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
501 words
501 words
20/365: watch me dream
and time shall be hereafter / writ in heart our souls' provisions / wound, unwound by dreamers sifting
Fantasy Poem
18 lines
18 lines
21/365: The Unmaking
Whirled 'round, making and unmaking / Raze, raze heaven 'til it gleams
Fantasy Poem
16 lines
16 lines
22/365: The Ones Who Choose
Who is family?
Natasha Romanova surprised herself by moving in to the Stark Tower and making her suite her own. Tony Stark surprises her by commenting on it.
Avengers Movieverse Fanfic
393 words
393 words
23/365: Glass Angel
He had to name her to have her.
Jordan Michael gave her the glass angel in Glaston and asked her to marry him, but did he really know her in the first place?
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
24/365: Late Return
The book was late and he had never missed a week.
Lena isn’t sure what to do when her most regular borrower fails to appear on schedule. Her assistant is pretty sure it’s not the book she’s worried about.
Fantasy Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
25/365: Pause the Sonata
Jordan Michael wasn't worth stopping the sonata.
Ashen has just ended a relationship. Her leader is concerned.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
683 words
683 words
26/365: When the Clock Chimes
Forty-eight hours but it wasn't time to sleep.
It was Wednesday, the day after forgetting day, but Wesley wanted to remember and see if what he thought he saw was real.
Fantasy Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
975 words
975 words
27/365: How Anthony Met the Stars
What are the stars?
Tiger is a watchcat charged with keeping Anthony safe, but she was the self-contented sort, certain that if she is chaperoning, a visit to the stars is not unacceptable.
Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
779 words
779 words
28/365: As the River Breathes
They'd taught her to kill. She would learn to heal.
A feud between kingdoms results in a dammed up river and only one half-crazed girl to save them.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
728 words
728 words
33–34/365: Wake and Thrive
He began at the bottom, nameless and empty, with a gaping hole where his life ought to be.
Red Wolf remembers nothing of his past or history before he became a member of Storm’s team of operatives. His only reassurance in the face of an uncertain future is the promise he woke to receive.
Science Fiction Short Story
3633 words
3633 words
29/365: Scarred
She's not in love. Really.
Hayley isn’t the kind of woman to be in denial, but she’s never liked a problem she doesn’t know how to untangle.
Warning: Mentions abuse.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
30/365: Poetry is Fire
Arsonists aren't supposed to be into literature.
Shelley wants a book; so does the local troublemaker.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
200 words
200 words
31/365: Ever in Love
Why did she have to look like she belonged there?
Ever’s friend comes down to his shop, perches on his desk, examines the space station parts he sells. He just wishes she came for him.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
32/365: at my back I always hear
bound by spheres of glass // as the songbirds sing // they growing ever younger
Lyric Poem
16 lines
16 lines
35/365: Keeping the Balance
In Vardin, change is a balance.
Serel shows his son the balance between change and guarding against change.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
36/365: Of Many Colors
She was trained to create what she could never have.
Kileshin sewed the finest cloaks for the wealthiest of her people, but could never wear her own creations.
Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
37-38/365: Learning Legato
Ashen had never thought she was normal.
Ashen was trained as a living weapon from her childhood, and now that she is free, understanding normal life—like coffee or love—is difficult at best. She turns to her mentor and her music to help her find the way.
Science Fiction Short Story
2340 words
2340 words
39/365: Of Memory and Making
What makes a person who they are?
Ashelynn likes her boyfriend’s easygoing nature, so it catches her by surprise when he suddenly isn’t, when the idea that our memories make us who we are nearly drives a rift between them.
Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
803 words
803 words
40/365: A Tale of Fae
“Tell us a fairy tale,” the children cried.
The old bard loves to tell stories—of anything but Fae and her beautiful, terrible magic.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
150 words
150 words
41/365: Into the Temple of the Sun
Nyx was a wrongness that should not be.
Nyx is dying for fear that when she is reborn, she will cease to be… Nyx.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
379 words
379 words
42-43/365: Remembering Stories
She remembered the akhlakhai. She did not honor them.
It is Llereya’s birthday, a day for remembering what has gone before, but these are things she remembers alone. She does not like to honor her birthday.
Science Fiction Fantasy Short Story
1091 words
1091 words
44–45/365: History Lesson on the Night Train
she was old, her lines were tired, but her eyes were bright— / to ask what it is, this marking down of history / like stainless steel tines pressed down into meat
Science Fiction Poem
153 lines
153 lines
46/365: Best Friends
An unlikely rescuer and a shy little girl...
Five-year-old Shelley Huntington falls prey to the class bully, but meets an unlikely rescuer with startling results.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
47/365: Since When
Truth is not in the eye of the beholder. Is it?
Two schoolgirls share lunch and misgivings at how to apply truth when the facts are not convenient.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
48/365: Once Upon a Time
Story is in the mind of the reader.
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a little boy and a little girl liked to read.
Flash Fiction Short Story
434 words
434 words
49/365: Song Between the Waking and the Dreaming
He had no memory, but he had music.
Red Wolf’s team has taken an assignment they should not have received and the key to its accomplishment awakens the phantom of memories he no longer has.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
471 words
471 words
50/365: A Handsbreadth Light
Her life was but a handsbreadth compared to his.
The bonds that form between soulmates are inescapable and irrevocable, but Llereya has misgivings when hers appear.
Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
666 words
666 words
51/365: Owning Beauty
She has never been beautiful.
Ashen has never experienced being beautiful—until tonight.
Science Fiction Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
412 words
412 words
52–53/365: Dream the Dance
She had danced the dance of death so many times.
Ashen is able to kill or heal with a simple touch, but it isn’t until a disturbing dream that she realizes mastery goes beyond the waking world.
Science Fiction Short Story
1,011 words
1,011 words
54/365: When the Clock Strikes Midnight
Unlike Cinderella, Shift had no hearth to welcome a prince to...
The clock would strike midnight, soon, and all Shift wants is to remember that she has a heart before her cinderella run is over.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
765 words
765 words
55/365: After the Grief
Storm likes to worry about her. Whisper likes to ignore that.
You would think Whisper had ended a relationship instead of started one, but big brother types could be protective regardless.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words
100 words
56/365: The Way of the Hunt
Just when he thought he found some common ground—at last.
Josh Williams is an outsider to Vardin, kidayet, and so he’s glad to find some common ground at last with someone native. Even if it’s not quite the way he thought.
Science Fiction Fantasy Flash Fiction Short Story
364 words
364 words
57/365: Echoes of Anchor Lost
Moving forward or moving on are the only options.
Tactic and Thought should have been allowed to marry. They were voluntary operatives who did their work and did it well, but it isn’t the Department that’s destroying them.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
655 words
655 words
58–59/365: That is Something
We do not choose who we love.
Rhiannon gave up her hunt and accepted the first failure of her life as a guardian—for Tracer, but he might never forgive her for considering choosing another.
Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Short Story
1,145 words
1,145 words
60/365: Abyss Looking Back
Sometimes Justus wonders why Rachelle is always looking into the abyss.
Justus and the Database have known each other for years, long enough for him to ignore break the anger and silence between them to help her as much as she will allow.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
996 words
996 words
61/365: Collateral Damage
No price is too high...
Andre knows a young woman’s genes are killing her, but is saving her a lost cause?
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
676 words
676 words
62–63/365: To Dance with a Dragon
He preferred the translation, Never assume anything.
Etienne has a few assumptions about this girl, this woman he may one day marry. She doesn’t much mind setting him straight.
Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Short Story
1,016 words
1,016 words
64–65/365: Blood of Dragons
She was still a little girl for all she was a woman.
Akena is the daughter of guardians of Vardin, sworn to protect their people and their lands, and yet, she doubts herself, that she will ever become what she should.
Science Fiction Fantasy Short Story
1,392 words
1,392 words
66–67/365: Name Me Another (or Glass Angel, Redux)
He wanted to know her name. She wanted him to know who she was.
Ashen hopes to create a new life and a new name for herself with Jordan Michael, a businessman with his own reason to be interested in special type humans like her, but can he ever see who she is beyond the name?
Science Fiction Short Story
1,370 words
1,370 words
68/365: Well Doing, Weary
That moment when faith becomes sight.
All the old preacher wanted was some sign the families in his church might soften their hardened hearts to the Word they claimed to keep.
Christian Flash Fiction Short Story
495 words
495 words
69/365: Don’t Remind Me That It’s Over
Ricki had put away the past when she put away the name.
Anna has a new photography job and decides to go back through her old snapshots and memories. Ricki, who is visiting, demands that she stop—before it hurts too much.
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Short Story
612 words
612 words
70/365: By the Numbers
How does one rekindle a faded love?
David had been buried in work and statistics so long, he and his wife had forgotten how to communicate. They just need to take that first step…
Literary Romance Flash Fiction Short Story
279 words
279 words
71/365: Flight of a Wild Mare
You’re riding me hard, and I’m put away wet. / My soul like His cloak is a gamble, a bet.
Lyric Poem
16 lines
16 lines
A 365 pieces of art challenge sounds awesome. The most I've done is an Index Card A Day art challenge over the summer, and that didn't last very long.
I would love to give you prompts! It's my innate bossiness, I think...
I like your innate bossiness, and you give excellent prompts. :hugs: I'm nervous, but soooo excited.
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I have some prompts for you. Feel free to use what you like and discard what you don't.
1. The song Kryptonite, by 3 Doors Down (lyrics here
2. Chasing after wind (I've been reading Ecclesiastes, so there you have it).
3. Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.
(From Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens, rest of the poem here.
Ooooh! Gets excited. Thank you!
2 out of 3. :grins: We'll see if I can do something with Kryptonite. I admit, the words baffle me as to what it's really talking about.
It dawned on me, I didn't link these with the prompts! Whoops.
2. Queen of Heaven: http://lianamir.com/queen-of-heaven
3. Beneath the Icewood Trees: http://lianamir.com/beneath-the-icewood-trees
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