We are so excited about this list of finishers for our annual summer 100 words for 100 days writing challenge. While every summer feels fun, this one felt particularly exciting as email after email rolled in about how many words were being written and discipline that was growing. We also had so many families doing the challenge together, and that just made my heart swell every time I heard that!
This fall, I’m planning to do some mini challenges, so stay tuned!
If you would like to celebrate by posting about your project, we would love that! You can tell us about what you worked on, or post your favorite 100 words, or share your opening paragraph, or do all of the above! Even if you participated in the challenge, but didn’t necessarily finish, you’re welcome to post as well.
Congratulations to these lovely people who completed the 100 words for 100 days challenge:
Bethany Reinstedt
Ryana Lynn
Glynis B.
Mindy
Grace Steele
Brooklynn Gross
Abigail Lockhart
Samantha W
Claire B.
Jaime G.
L. J. M. L.
Abigail Haagen
Meg Collins
Sarah Rodecker
E. K. Seaver
Anna Macey
Becky Dempsey
Abby Kopkie
S.C. Nichols
Sarah Zakowski
Elizabeth H.
Liz Hampton
HopeK
Jonathan Babcock
Julia Shepard
C. F. Barrows
Kate Birch
Natalie Williams
Lee Hillshire
Ellie Maureen
M. A. Starr
Tessa.K
Rakayle H.
Jerah W
Emma J Courtwright
Bethany Swafford
O. R. Oehmke
Elle Loughran
Sarah Jaylee
Julie R
Aubree Y.
Corwynne F
Caroline D
Maika
R.F. Gammon
Skylar Marie
Coralie Terry
Naomi Johns
Jory Melvin
Jes Drew
Emily Dean
Sydney Anderson
Rebecca Woodie
Emily Bianchini
Mary K C
Olivia Farnsworth
Debra KA
Keturah Lamb
Danielle S
Danae Becker
Lydia DeGisi
Laura Aliese Miedema
Tahlia Louise
Caitlin R
TabithaD
Bridget Marshall
Mia Berkstresser
LHE
Abigail Harris
Em Elizabeth
Violet P
J. Chance
Eliana D.
Kara Justine
Ariel P
Amariah Hier
Leon Sinclair
Xoë White
Colin C.
Azaria Durant
Lilianna Oxley
Cassidy Lauren
Sarah G
Alicia W
Jaina P
Again, feel welcome to share some about your 100-for-100 experience or some of your actual words written over the summer!
This was my first year doing this challenge, and I’m so glad I did! I wrote more words this summer than ever before. It was really hard sometimes, between having to put my loyal dog down and getting a new puppy, camp, late nights, etc. but the challenge kept me going. It really showed me what I can do if I really push myself. Definetly hoping to do it again next year and would be interested in doing some smaller challenges before then. Thank you so much for putting it on and congratulations to those who finished and those who tried!
Congratulations!
Woohoo! Great job!
Sorry about your dog. 🙁 Hopefully he or she is resting in peace and your new puppy is happy to be a part of your family.
Thank you!
Congratulations everyone!!! If was really cool seeing L.J.M.L putting her all in this!! Whenever she was over she always paused whatever she was doing to write down her 100 words!! Congratulations everyone!!!
It was my first time doing 100-100 since I only found out about this blog earlier this year. I was finally able to be able to move on from chapter two since I got stuck. I mostly did brainstorming but now I have also written to chapter five. My story is a a fairy tale Fantasy It is about a girl who is from our world (Earth) but after going through a portal wakes up in a fairy tale world but with no memories, so she can remember anything except for her first name. There are a lot of other important characters like there is a princess from a fairy tale, a werewolf, fairies,and my protag also has a twin sister she does know about (even if she had her memories, she never knew. They were separated at birth.”) That is on the bad guys side. This 100-100 was fun really fun thanks again for hosting it.
Wow. That sounds like a really cool story. Definitely post about it here when you get it published. I’d love to read it.
Thanks
Congratulations! Sounds like a fun book!
Oo! Your story sounds super interesting. Twin sister on the Bad guys side? Awesome!
Man, I would love to read a book like that. It’s hard to find good not-cliche fantasies, but that one sounds really interesting
Thanks Everyone. I like that you like it.
I absolutely loved this challenge! It was also my first year and I ‘m so glad I found it in time to do this challenge. I managed to finish book 1 and start book 2. It was really fun to do this summer because next summer will be busy since I’ll be working. I wanted to share a bit of what I wrote. Here is the first little section of chapter 1 from book 1:
I would’ve gotten away with stealing the King’s precious Jewel, if not for my cousin, John, and his princess girlfriend, Sarah. I was hiding behind a tree, when they came running towards me wearing worried expressions.
“Have you heard? My father’s Jewel has been stolen!” cried the princess, Sarah.
“What? No, I haven’t heard about it. I don’t think anybody knows what you are talking about.” I said.
A voice rang out.
It rang out again and this time I heard what it said: “Everybody get to your houses and stay there until I say different.”
“Matt, do you have any place to stay while this uh……..thief is loose?”said Sarah, concerned.
“Actually, I just roam from place to place. So, not really, no.”
“Well, now you do. I’m talking to Dad and you’re staying in the Castle.”
Ooh. Nice job hooking your readers.
Thanks!
Ooh, nice!
This is awesome!! I love it!
Wow, two books already?! Good job!
Thank you so much!
This challenge was so great. Prior to it I was struggling to make progress, and it helped me get back into the swing of things despite my hectic schedule. I did a lot of things this summer, and I’m happy that the 100 for 100 challenge was one of them.
Here’s a back cover summary that I drafted for my book.
Quite often facts are stranger- and more dangerous- than fiction.
Twelve-year-old Cora learned this the hard way when campfire stories about Spinner’s Island, a foreboding, supposedly haunted landmass in the center of the lake by her house, spiked her curiosity, and she decided to investigate. Once on the island, a disembodied whisper led her to an old wooden box buried in the tangled underbrush. Then things got creepy.
Shortly after this misadventure, Cora’s family moved, and after awhile, she managed to put her unanswered questions about the island and the box out of her mind. But now she’s back in town after a decade of nonstop traveling, and with her return comes the return of the strange dreams she used to have for the first few months after she visited Spinner’s Island… but what do they mean?
Fourteen-year-old Margo has heard all the ghost stories about Spinner’s Island, including the one about her neighbor’s niece Cora, who claimed she heard a mysterious voice calling her name while exploring out there. While Margo isn’t sure she believes in such tales, she doesn’t want to tempt fate, and keeps her distance from the island. But with her eight-year-old neighbor begging her to take him there, the sudden reappearance of the now grown, supposedly cursed Cora fueling his curiosity, and her twin sister’s uncharacteristically secretive behavior, she might be forced to find out for herself if the stories hold truth… and if they do, how to save herself from them.
Secrets over a century old hide on Spinner’s Island, and it’s up to Cora and Margo to assemble a ragtag team of friends, family, strangers, and lost souls capable of deciphering these secrets. And they need to hurry. Soon the clock will start ticking, and if time runs out, the consequences could permanently throw into chaos the lives of those who have visited Spinner’s Island and all those around them.
(Feel free to give feedback or tell me the best way to describe this genre, because I’m still figuring that part out)
That sounds AMAZING! I can’t wait to read it one day.
If this gets published I am most definatly reading it!! I don’t know what genre I would call it… Good question.
Wow!! Please tell me when it publishes, cause I want to read it!! (Even though it doesn’t sound quite like my cup of tea, but who cares?).
As for genre, maybe mystery? YA or Elementary, depending on your audience. Also maybe thriller??
Thanks so much guys! 🙂
Wow, Em!! This story sounds amazing! I hope that you publish it because I’d love to read it. ?
Way to go you guys!!! I’m bummed I missed the challenge, (I found this website a few days late) but I did it alongside, and it was really cool watching my manuscript grow.
This challenge was amazing! With the motivation of 100-for-100 I managed to write over 47,000 words this summer! Thank you GTW!!!
Congratulations! That’s a lot of words!
I only got about halfway through, but I did so much on my writing just from those 50 days. I am going to challenge myself to do this every summer, whether or not GTW does it. Thanks for doing this, GTW!
Halfway is pretty good! I only made it a quarter through last year.
Hey! My name is Macy too. Although we spell it Macey with a E.
This is my second year doing the 100 for 100. It is always fun! I wrote 15,857 words. And got a lot of chapters in my new book.
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to all you finishers and everyone who tried! It was pretty tough making it through, and I used just about every grace day I got. It was awesome though, and I feel great having written that much.
What I was writing about was basically a story about two people who live in two very different parts of a post-apocalyptic society after a nuclear war. One works in a power plant powering the shields around the city protecting from the radiation. the other lives in an old government experiment called the ESO.
Here’s the opening bit of the one that lives in the ESO:
“Tonight, we are celebrating the freedom of Marsh and Dahlia. They weren’t with us for very long, but they have escaped into another place, and now we celebrate their accomplishment. May they find Paradise!”
“May they find Paradise!” the crowd yelled back. They were gathered in a half-circle around the Hand-Stone. Atlas gazed up at the large rock that towered above him. It was almost completely covered in handprints of every color they could get, He wondered how long it would be before he had one. Who would put it there? Somehow, the idea filled him with longing instead of fear.
The rest of the evening passed with an unorganized crowd of dancing, singing, and games. By the time the light faded from the wide white sky, almost everyone was nearing exhaustion.
Atlas retreated from the raging bonfire and settled down in his hammock hanging from the ring of trees around the clearing and stared at the little points of light scattered across the sky. He’d been here for only six months, but already he felt old, as he was one of the ones who’d been here the longest. However, why they were even there in the first place, no one had any clue.
The lights never flickered like everyone said they were supposed to. Atlas wondered how real stars looked. These never gave him any feelings except for a longing he would never be able to quench.
He closed his eyes and tried to imagine a black night sky, splattered across with the most beautiful twinkling stars, but no matter how hard he tried, the sky remained black and lightless. Bizzare images flooded his mind as he grew drowsier, drawing closer and closer to welcome sleep.
He drifted off to a view of him as a little child, being gently rocked to sleep by a faceless woman he never knew.
Hmmmm… very intriguing. Nice work.
Whoa, I want to read this story!!
Aww thanks. Hopefully you will someday. 😉
Congrats to all of my fellow winners! I am impressed with all the words written!
I managed to get in 38,000 words, which is way more than I would have expected with how crazy my summer has been. I was able to get almost to the end of a project I’ve had sitting on my computer for about 2 years. It is actually a sequel to another book I’d written and tells of the second misadventure of a young gentleman in the Regency era.
I’m looking forward to the next set of challenges!
Congratulations!
Congrats everyone!
I enjoyed the challenge, even though I’m out of ideas at the moment. I think I might have (mostly) finished the first draft of my book, which made me really happy. This would be my first completed novel, so I’m really glad I decided to do the challenge.
I hope everyone had fun writing this summer!
Yaaay! Congratulations!
Congrats Xoe!! That’s huge! ??????
Good Job! That’s a huge accomplishment!!!
Congrats to everyone who finished!! Great job 😀
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Congrats to all the participants!
Congratulations, everyone!! The 100-for-100 is such a great contest for learning motivation in writing. 🙂 I almost finished but fell off the wagon about a week or two early. This contest is not an easy one, but it’s definitely worth it. Congrats again!!
I recognize several names from this list! Congrats everyone. <3