This is for @threesixtyfive 's Terminal 30 day writing challenge. I am going to try to write everyday but cannot promise that updates on here will be every day. I will try my hardest guys, I promise! Anyway, here's the challenge:
Day one: write a chapter in which your character discovers they have x amount of days to live (i.e. 30 days, 50 days, 10 days, and so forth.)
Day two: write a chapter in which they react to this news after several days of numbness
Day Three: Write a story in which your character’s parent signs them up to meet with “people like you”
Day Four: Write a chapter in which your character has to explain their disease to somebody.
Day Five: Write a chapter in which your character gathers their friends together and explains that they are indeed dying.
Day Six: Write a chapter in which your character meets somebody special at the hospital (this person does not have to be dying too)
Day Seven: Write a chapter in which they go on a date in the hospital cafeteria
Day Six: Write a chapter in which your character tells their best friend about their special someone
Day Seven: Write a chapter in which your character and their new found love interest talk all night
Day Eight: Write a chapter in which your character attends their last day of school (i.e. they are being taken out of school because they are dying)
Day Nine: Write a chapter in which your character uses a “perk of dying”
Day Ten: Write a chapter in which your character is told they are being given a wish by the make a wish foundation
Day Eleven: Write a chapter in which your character discusses what their wish should be with their special someone
Day Twelve: Write a chapter in which your character begins writing a “baby bucket list” (i.e. a list of small things to do before they die, rather than a list of unachievable tasks)
Day Thirteen: Write a chapter in which your character’s special someone attempts to “kiss it all away”
Day Fourteen: Write a chapter in which your characters cause mischief in the hospital
Day Fifteen: Write a chapter in which your character’s sibling/friend/other yells at the doctors for not fixing them
Day Sixteen: Write a chapter in which your character writes a will
Day Seventeen: Write a chapter in which your character gets to leave the hospital for their dying days
Day Eighteen: Write a chapter in which your character fulfills their “wish” from T.M.A.W.F.
Day Nineteen: Write a chapter based on Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
Day Twenty: Write a chapter in which somebody calls your character “brave” and they refute it
Day Twenty-One: Write a chapter in which your character gets angry about their circumstance
Day Twenty-Two: Write a chapter in which your character and their lover attempt to have sex in a hospital bed but fail (do to awkward nurse encounters, or parents, or anything else you feel fit)
Day Twenty-Three: Write a chapter in which your character imagines a world where they are not sick
Day Twenty-Four: Write a chapter in which your character tells their lover to move on after their death
Day Twenty-Five: Write a chapter in which your character holds their own funeral (credit to John Green and Gus for being perf)
Day Twenty-Six: Write a chapter in which your character holds their lover while they cry
Day Twenty-Seven: Write your character’s last chapter
Day Twenty-Eight: POV switch – write your character’s love interest’s feelings in their lover’s last days
Day Twenty-Nine: Write a chapter in which your (new main) character finds out their love is dead
Day Thirty: The funeral.
Interchangeable / Optional Prompts:
One: Write a chapter in which your character attends a birthday party
Two: Write a chapter in which your character spends quality time with their family
Three: Write a chapter in which your character visits the school they dropped out of
Four: Write a chapter in which somebody apologizes for wronging your character, and your character simply tells them to “just because I’m dying doesn’t mean I want your pity apologies.”
Five: Write a chapter in which the nurses tell your character how cute their new boy/girl is.
