This link was originally found and posted in December, 2007.

Just came across the Holidailies while looking at blogs in the Thursday 13. Too late to join it this year but maybe I will remember about it for next year.

Description on the site from this year (2026). Site is still online but not very active looking now. It was a nice idea but I guess there are so few personal sites online now, far less people to join and contribute.

Welcome to the 26th annual Holidailies project, a free community writing project that promotes sharing your writing and other online creative endeavors during the winter holiday season.

Holidailies 2024 participants try to update their personal websites consistently _{perhaps even daily} from December 1, 2025 to January 1, 2026. If you want to join us, all you need is a blog (hosted on your own domain or by sites such as Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal or Tumblr) and the time/desire to create and share website content with us for a month.

As a participant, you can write or post your own photos/audio/video about whatever you like on your existing website, then post the link here on the Holidailies portal. The newest entries display first.

Holidailies draws participants from all over the world, from a variety of ages and walks of life, covering a wide range of interests. Some participants share stories about their daily life, others write in themed blogs about everything from hiking to homeschooling, from knitting to alternative lifestyles. Some write about Christmas, some about Hanukkah, and some about ways to avoid the holidays as much as possible.

Since then they have started Horrordailies and Thingdailies:

About Horrordailies

Welcome to the 10th annual Horrordailies, a free community blogging project where all participants commit to writing and sharing horror-related topics on their blogs every day. Participants can write about horror-related topics, post reviews of horror movies, classic horror movie posters, post original horror fiction, and more.

... and desire to post something horror or Halloween related to our site regularly throughout the month.

As a participant, you can write or post your own photos/audio/video about whatever you like on your existing website, then post the link here on the Horrordailies portal. The newest entries display first.

About Thingadailies

Welcome to the eleventh annual Thingadailies, a free community crafting project where all participants commit to making one thing every day during the month of February, and sharing / talking about it on their blogs. What "thing" each person makes is entirely up to them. Some participants may decide to make a variation on the same thing every day, while others may switch it up from day to day or week to week.

... and the time/desire to create one new thing a day and share website content with us for a month.

As a participant, you can write or post your own photos/audio/video about whatever you like on your existing website, then post the link here on the Thingadailies portal. The newest entries display first.

I like rewrites of the old fairytales. My favourite is "Beauty and the Beast". There are a few versions of it, some kind of watered down from the original. Have you ever read the original? I think I did, long, long ago.

Anyway, my idea for a project, is to rewrite the old fairytales myself as short stories. But, combine them with various tropes (stereotypical parts of fiction genres). Like choosing a story and then spinning a wheel to see what goes into it - then writing it. Surely I can do that.

Too many of my stories start from feeling angry and they go too far into that. Nothing anyone would really want to read and not really something I want to publish either. So, why not give writing a spin, a fresh spin, with different inspiration.

I'm going to need to create a list of tropes. Likely by genre, mainly science fiction and horror for me I think. But, anything could really wander in from other genres. Why not, who will ever read any of it but me. (Hello me)!

BookCrossing Readathon - Sadly, if you don't have (or create) an account I don't think you will be able to open the link. So here is the information. I hope they do it again next year. I only read about it today, too late to participate.

Get ready for an epic reading experience! On April 20th, 2025, BookCrossers across the globe will come together for a 24-hour Readathon, and we want YOU to be a part of it!

From 12:00am to 11:59pm Pacific Time (PDT), there will be BookCrossers reading everywhere—whether it’s morning in Tokyo, afternoon in Paris, or evening in New York. Wherever you are, there will always be someone diving into a great book!

My cousin lives in BC, along the coast. She sent photos of a young bear which appeared near her home. I'm glad she had the common sense not to approach and/or feed the bear.

Years ago we had a wild deer at the house, along the street. It tried to jump through the big window at the front of our house. I don't know how it didn't break, I was very glad it did not. At the end of our street, in the suburbs of Barrie, are farms. We get more wild animals coming from that way. Not many get far before turning back. Likely it happens more often now as they get less and less space. But, it is nice to see them, real and alive now and then. To remember they are there.

What was the last wild animal, of a larger size like a deer or bear, which has wandered into your area?

I like stories about about something that is deadly to everyone who handles it. Is there a special genre for this type of fiction? It seems there should be. In horror, in general with the paranormal, macabre, misfortune and tragedy associated with something beautiful, precious, luxurious, expensive and for some reason sinister, ominous, or foreboding (another good word).

Recently I read, The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds, by Robert Barr. Its an old story, written over 100 years ago. In France, a diamond necklace is found forgotten in an attic of an old chalet. The man who finds it was working on repairs to the house. He attempts to sneak out over the roof with the necklace. He falls to his death. In this story there are further deaths in the backstory and the ongoing story after it is found.

It would be fun to write a story like that. Coming up with scenarios for a cursed necklace (or something else).

... created by a jeweller who dies in a fire, inherited by his son who is lost in the Amazon jungle, never found. Given to the sister in the family who is murdered by her fiance a week before their wedding. The caterer takes the necklace from her corpse and is hit by a streetcar dying in the hospital two days later. The family are all deceased so the necklace is sold at an auction. The auctioneer who sells the necklace dies after mistakenly eating a poisonous mushroom. A rich businessman buys it for his mistress. He goes bankrupt and disappears before he gives it to her. His wife, trying to handle all that debt and creditors goes crazy and is locked in an asylum the rest of her life. Then there is a time of rest. The diamonds are forgotten in a secret vault, in the mansion of the businessman. The wife didn't know about them and the mistress wasn't given them. Of course, decades later, the house is being demolished by a builder who hopes to find old blueprints for the house, or something valuable in the vault at the house. He does... unfortunately.

You know that can just go on forever. Diamonds, in particular, are not easily destroyed. Plus, human greed alone will keep them from disappearing for long. Of course, I've read this type of story with assorted items: a doll, a car, but jewellry seems to be the most popular. Its not heavy, or bulky, doesn't really need maintenance, and it only becomes more valuable over time.

The thing is, is it cursed or is all this just happening around it? Does greed cause all this misfortune? The necklace is just blameless while horrible things happen to people around it? That's the mystery.

Write your own story about a cursed(?) item.