An interesting writing "challenge"!

I wouldn’t call this a challenge, yet it is different from my usual way of writing. I did try this in the past, it was tough for me to stay committed.

I am working on Project Chaos which was a short story I wrote three or four years ago, maybe a bit longer. I told myself I would turn it into a novel (not a novel series). The way I am building the story, I don’t think it would do great as a series. It will drag on for far longer than it needs to. Yet making it a novel with decent pacing that ends up becoming greatly paced with good execution.

I won’t go into details of the plot other than stating a sister and her brother traveling a post apocalypse world with some unsettling things going on in the process.

Another thing is that this story is in first person with an unreliable narrator.

I am enjoying the first draft, I wonder how I will feel about editing and revising the second draft. LOL!

Are you doing a writing “challenge”? I mean by that is doing a challenge as a way to get better at writing and seeing yourself grow.

Thoughts and feelings?

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Oh it is always fun to expand on stories, isn’t it?! :smiley: Good luck with that!

I’m not sure if it’s a challenge per se but one of my experiments this year is, as you know, publishing 12 books. I’ve upped that goal to 20. The experiment is working nicely so far with the first book out, and it’s really pushing me towards finishing the next in the series (which is almost there! Should be done today and published tomorrow). I think it will help me as a writer, given most of the projects will be short, and I am usually no good at writing short books. But I’ve had nothing but good reviews so far so I think I am getting there.

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Nope, I never challenge myself, per se, but I treat writing as a job: I reread previous chapters while eating breakfast at the computer, then start typing a new chapter. Just doing that every day is enough of a challenge for me. (>‿◠):v:

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Cool cool. I’m trying something new too. ATM experimenting with climate fiction, doing a lot of research on eco-feminism and queer environmentalism.

It’s a topic I haven’t explored before in my writing, but I feel like I’ve had this story within me for a while waiting to be written.

(The challenge is having a manuscript ready in two-ish years)

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I love when that happens…sometimes. I say “sometimes” because I don’t always get to find that story. It’s weird, I know what the story is yet I am not at that point on how to start it.

I am STILL trying to do a One Piece x Tower Fan-fiction, but it’s original fiction involving Alagossia and my own thing. The world of Alagossia is in likeness to One Piece x Tower God, but the stories are Marvel (in terms of series).

:sweat_smile:

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I am working on three projects now! The novels are long or going to be long!

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That is awesome!!! You can do it! :smiley: I just hit publish on my second 2025 project. Excited to move onto another genre for a few weeks.

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I am now down to two novel projects.

See how things transpire faster than you thought they would? LOL!

:sweat_smile:

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XD Ha, yup. In my case it’s “plan to do something, start, never finish”. It’s why I’m going so hard on the rapid releases. XD If I don’t set myself absurd goals I’m never gonna do it.

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Interesting way to look at tackling goals.

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And the Genre? I’m wondering… And wish you all the best!

SD

Fantasy. But alas, I got carried away and started to write the third in this series. My goal is 3 before I start publishing other genres, and I think I’ve found out how I’m going to tear apart my long-running vampire project and turn it into a series, instead of one longer work.

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Challenges for growth are fun :grin:

Once I get a handle on my three editing projects (oh good grief, I’ve been editing non-stop), I want to do something interesting. Find words in my TBR that don’t appear so often in the title, and use that to create a title, and then write a story around that title.

Another interesting thing I want to try is write a story where the first big incident happens in ch.1 like is often done in middle grade stories. Usually I have hints in ch.1 and then the exciting thing happens in ch.2.

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Bump.

I see… I also write fantasy, and Sci-Fi of sorts… But I’d love to write Horror, and I may do in time as I have written a single chapter horror in a very rough and vain attempt to do so, which is conceptually fine, but seems also weak… Need to look into that soon and pull it apart for further in-head debate…

SD

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