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.

Fictish - A storytelling and game platform? I didn't sign up to try it. This seems too much like all the sites who were so kind as to publish writers (without asking for payment) as if they are just doing you (the writer) a great favour. Marketing can produce so much misdirection, like a sleight of hand magic act. Writer beware.

Once in awhile a writer is chosen to win an Amazon gift card for $10. That's nice. How much time do they put in before they might make ten dollars?

The site does have writing prompts, somewhere. I didn't find them when I took a second look at the site today.

I'm surprised (and not surprised) by how many people use AI for making/ writing anything. Kind of amazing how quickly its becoming common use. Like bottled water and cell phones. Almost overnight "everyone" uses them.

AI is great for mass producing/ marketing but pretty useless for any real information. AI just repeats what it finds and has no sense of what is safe, real, harmful, factual, true etc. Of course nothing original or unique comes from an AI - it can't.

Plus, it doesn't have to care. In writing its a sure sign of someone out to make a buck and not caring what slop they publish. I'd consider AI for making a website, the mechanics of putting a site together, but not for images I add. Those would just be copied from someone else without them knowing. I haven't tried it for a site yet.

I won't use AI for one single word I write. I write for myself, and anyone else who wanders by, but mainly I want to write - me, my voice, my thoughts, my responsibility.

If an AI writes for you - you have no voice and you likely think using an AI is an excuse should something you write be questioned. "I didn't write it, the AI did, I'm blameless". I wonder how long that will work for people using an AI.