An interesting idea:
"Dan Waber turned 40 on January 12th, 2006, and wanted to mark the occasion in some positive fashion. So he got this crazy idea (not an unusual event) to write 40 words (no more, no less) every day for a year, and each day he'd write about a different person (in no particular order) who touched his life. But not just anyone, it has to be someone he's actually met in person, someone whose name he still remembers."
- How x365 got started
I'm kinda sorta maybe interested in trying it myself, except that right now even trying to write and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite the introductions to these quotes is proving to be SOMEWHAT LESS THAN ENJOYABLE.
Here's some nice work from Nathan at Okay City: x365, who - being 27 at the time - had only 27 words per post to work with:
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18 August 2007
300 - B.
"She came bounding up the first day of summer, dressed head to toe in lime-green, exclaiming brightly, 'Wake up! It's Monday!' My dislike was misplaced, but deep."
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26 September 2007
339 - H.
"A fabulous Texas woman, with a heart as big as her purse, and hair as big as her heart, both as big as that huge Texas sky."
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18 October 2007
361 - Dr. H.
"My college advisor was a great Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist with a sunny disposition and bright blue eyes that never, ever blinked. Like, never ever."
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UPDATE
I've read a bit more of some x365 work and think it would be better if participants didn't name the people they're talking about. Some of the stuff I've seen is so breathtakingly mean, it's hard to believe the writer would put his/her own name to it, let alone name the person they're trashing.
