One Hundred Words of Horror 2008

[newnumber6]

Okay, last year I did this on the spur of the moment, and only posted it a day or so before the day. And only one other person (to my knowledge) participated. This year I'm starting a full two weeks before Halloween and hopefully others might be inclined to join in. So this is either a meme, if people are interested and want to take it up and repost, or just something I plan on doing personally if not:

In the spirit of upcoming Halloween, and as sort of a last minute whet-the-appetite for Nano, I present "One Hundred Words of Horror for Halloween". Nano's about writing big, this is about writing small.

The rules:
1. Write short horror stories, and post them on Halloween.
2. Each story must be exactly 100 words. No more, no less (you can choose to count arguable symbols important to the story either as words or not as you wish). This amount does not include the title.
3. The stories must be in some way horror-related. This doesn't necessarily mean they have to be scary - you can deal with horror themes in a humorous way - but it's Halloween, so these should be in a Halloween spirit.
4. Post as many stories as you like.
5. (Optional) Respond to other people's stories with candy!

Comments

[monkeykong.livejournal.com]

Count me in! Sounds like fun, and I could use the distraction from NaNo -- are you entering this year? It'd be interesting to see what you'd write :)

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Right now it's looking like no. I just don't feel I have a novel in me at the moment. I suppose I could do a 'Book Two' of the one I completed last year, but right now I'm just not feeling it. I'll probably use the nano time for a more intensive normal writing period, going back and forth between a number of different projects.