December Theme: Time to Celebrate
It’s the final countdown of 2021. Word Counts are back!
It’s been a long, hard year.
On the back of another long, hard year.
And next year may be another effing long year.
The 2020s may be called the Grinding 20s if things don’t let up at some point.
But life goes on and that’s something to celebrate
You know what, there’s plenty to celebrate, as days, weeks and months blurs and whoosh by there's good stuff to take notice of, to smile at, and enjoy.
There’s a lot to celebrate.
We’ve had an exceptional year with you. We’ve had contests, prompts, new editors, so many new writers, tons of great fresh stories. And we plan on building and growing next year too.
We wanted to end this month with a bang, surprise surprise, that’s how this month usually ends.
We want this month to be fun
The challenges are simple, and the prompts are open to your interpretation.
We’re bringing back, by popular demand (on Twitter) our fond tradition of strict word counts and the weekly countdown to push you a little.
And since there are five Fridays, we’ll count down from 500.
- First week, you send us a 500 word story. On the dot.
- And every week after that, we’ll trim a hundred from our quota.
- It’ll get easier, quicker and harder all at the same time.
It’ll be a mad dash to the end of the year.
Everyone’s busy and there’s family and parties and a bunch of stuff going on. If you’re up north it’s getting chilly, if you’re down south it’s heating up.
We’ll nudge you to write of these times and moments' worth celebrating.
Times that come every year. Or moments that happen only once. The first times and the last times.
Take your characters through these moments or fictionalise your memories.
Either is fine.
Just celebrate with us
It’s a been a tough year, but a great one for us and this community. We made it and we made it better together. It’s our first full year of prompts, growth and fun.
So let’s celebrate the good times together.
We want to end this year having fun. So pull out the stops and celebrate. Write whatever genre you want. There're no restrictions there.
The only limit this month and every week is the decreasing word count.
We set the target, and you nail it.
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