TERMINAL [30 DAY CHALLENGE]

            Terminal ter·mi·nal

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adjective

occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.

Velma has a terminal illness.

 

In light of lots of people deciding that the characters of their entries to my challenges are dying, it’s only fitting I let them kill them off with a challenge based around it.

Rules are as usual:

-Dedicate to me, (@figurative and @threesixtyfive)

-be committed

-etc.

Specific rules:

-please actually research whatever disease you apply to your character – you have to respect the disease before you write about it. Don’t just say “I have heart cancer,” learn the name for it, learn the symptoms. Learn the disease.

Prompts

 

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.