200 short stories in one year.

That is NOT a New Years resolution, by the way. It's the stupidest holiday ever, and yes, I'm including Valentines Day in there as well.

BUT! I'm bored, and I feel like doing something stupid, like setting some crazy goal, like 200 short stories in one year. I don't know why. I don't know where I'm going to get these story ideas. But I feel like it, so shut up.

I know. "In one year" sounds like a resolution. It ISN'T. It's just a convenient marker of the beginning and end of the year. If you don't believe me, I'll write a blog later detailing exactly why it's the stupidest holiday ever.

Now on to the questions.

Wait, why?
Because I'm bored, it's late, and I was up late last night making fun of the hypocrites and their resolutions, so I'm a little loopy.

Why 200? Why not 365?
Yeah right. Like I'm going to write one story every day? No way. 200 leaves me 165 days to play with. That gives me leeway for stuff like finals week, crazy studies, visits from family, and those insane thirty days of November known as NaNoWriMo.

Define short story. Is there a set amount of words? Are you going to do one theme? Will these stories be related?
No, no, and no. I once wrote a short story that was forty-six words long. It had characters who had personality, it had a beginning, a middle, and a (typical Rio cliffhanger) ending. It totally counts. And if I'm gonna do something stupid like write 200 stories in a year, I'm not going to put up any restrictions like word count, genre, or making them one common theme. That's just crazy talk.

So, what do you get if you manage to write 200 stories in a year?
............... a cookie?