100 Things Blogging Challenge
{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
(stolen from jdbracknell )
1. Pick a Thing.
2. Commit to blog about it 100 times.
3. Your 100 Things can be as personal or impersonal as you like. You can compile your own Best Of list, use someone else's as a basis (e.g. Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time or Film Stage's Top 100 films of the decade), talk about something you're passionate about in 100 pieces, catalog 100 days, or even ask your flist 100 probing questions. You can interpret 100 Things any way you like, but here are some examples to give you an idea of what you could do:
100 Recipes I've Never Tried Before & Other Kitchen Disasters
100 Of The Best & Worst Pop Videos In The World... Ever!
100 Things I Wish I'd Known At 15
100 Awesome/Awful Sporting Moments
100 Books Everyone Should Read
100 Songs By The Rolling Stones: Discography Discussed
100 Films I Endured Subtitles For, Were They Worth It?
100 Places I've Hung My Hat
100 Moments When Ordinary People Changed My/The World
100 Things I Overheard
100 Fics I Really Loved
100 Brilliant Goals
100 Pics of Abandoned Buildings
100 Philosophy Quotes & Their Every Day Application
100 Things I Bought In Thrift Stores & How I Restored Them
100 Inspiring People
100 Cult TV Things
100 Rooms I Wish Were Mine
100 Lessons Life Taught Me This Year
Need more ideas? Check out this post by
springinstep!
4. 100 entries?! That's a lot! Yes, it is. That's why it's called 'a challenge' and not 'something to piss about with for five minutes'. Frightened you don't know enough about any one Thing or will get bored?
- mix and match with something like '100 Books, Songs, Films, and TV Shows I Have Loved'
- alternatively, you can break your 100 Things down into subcategories. For example, if you pick Cult TV Things, you can make 10 entries about Buffyisms, 10 about Firefly, whittle down the top 10 Star Trek episodes, post about 10 TV shows that are so cult your flist will never have heard of them, pick 10 kisses, choose your favourite 10 characters etc.. Likewise, you could break a fic 100 Things down by pairing and fandom, or Awesome European Films could break down to 33 Spanish films, 33 French films, 33 Italian, and Flemish-speaking Belgium's cinematic masterpiece. Like that, 100 breaks down pretty quickly into chunks, but the point is to challenge yourself - and it'll hopefully give you something to post about when you can't think what else to post about (and save your cat from Vogueing).
5. The idea is to generate content that's considered, fun, focused, and interesting, and to make 100 entries featuring 1 Thing each. If you/your flist really, really can't face that, you can bundle your 100 Things into packages (50 entries of 2 contrasting Things - 1 book I love, 1 that I never finished, 25 entries of 4 similar Things etc.). The minimum number of entries you need to commit to making in order to take part is 10 (10 Things each).
6. There is no deadline for this challenge. You can sign-up at any time, and post completely and utterly at your own pace. Zip through them in a few months by all means, but if you can only post once a week and it takes you two years to finish your 100 Things, that's fine, and if you end up posting randomly and not finishing this decade, it still counts.
7. Number your entries in some way so you know when you're done, and tag them with something like '100 Things' or 'one hundred things'.
8. When you make your first entry, leave a comment here to sign up with your chosen subject matter, the tag URL for your entries, and a note about if you're willing to add people so they can read your entries. I will compile all the entries for the challenge into an index. I (and others) have had endless issues with links for LJ tags breaking, so I'm going to recommend that you come back every now and then and refer to your entry on the sign-up page and check your link still works. If it breaks, drop me a line with the new link and I'll fix it asap.
9. When you finish your 100th Thing, go here and say so. The first 10 people to finish get a shiny prize!
10. You're welcome to a banner to announce your participation and entice your flist to join in.
So what did I choose?
100 Moments In Time
Why? because I think it's important for me to try to remember the good things that have happened to me, focus on them, and document them. These could be super far back, yesterday, or whatever. Things I've done, witnessed, heard about that has somehow made an imprint on my memory.
WARNING: I obviously don't know, but I am sure that some of them will not be "G" rated. Whether for language, or content itself, I'm sure it'll get in there.
Here is the tag page for this, a Master List of all posts, for quick, easy reference.
EDIT
I've decided to do three, for some reason. I'm crazy, that's enough reason, right? There's no deadline on them, so I don't mind it--it's no pressure and things I'd like to keep track of anyway!!
So, the other two are:
100 Useless Things I've Learned
100 Dreams