Writing Challenge - May/June 2018 [CHALLENGE COMPLETED - RESULTS TO FOLLOW]

[redfeatherraven]

sounds like you need this challenge more than the rest of us

 

[Natz~]

i feel like i should appologize in response to that lol

 

[redfeatherraven]

Nah.

It is almost certainly one hundred percent true.

Doesn't help that when I put the brakes on my train of thought at midnight I haven't quite gotten back in on it. More research has been done, but no writing - which describes almost literally my whole week.

 

[Natz~]

ouch......

 

[redfeatherraven]

It's a cycle.

I broke it once, I can break it again.

 

[Natz~]

It's a cycle.

I broke it once, I can break it again.

well whatever the katt can do to help let the katt know!

 

[Natz~]

also i just realized something redfeatherraven

darkfenrir and kirby dragons aren't even invited to this place

so they can't receive notifications at all

ya need to invite them here :V
or hand on off a mod (place is now up to 9 people and some visitors so someone else to help out make annoucments and keep tabs to help out isn't a bad idea)

 

[Kirby Dragons]

I'll admit, I started my story but forgot to finish it by yesterday. I'll try to finish and post it today or tomorrow.

 

[Natz~]

I'll admit, I started my story but forgot to finish it by yesterday. I'll try to finish and post it today or tomorrow.

ya aren't rushed or anything, red made a goof so you pretty much get a buypass this week, though you do owe 2 1750 words this week, at least if you can't do it ya get a mercy day for no penalty

so basically no need to rush, but it is to be mindful

 

[redfeatherraven]

darkfenrir and kirby dragons aren't even invited to this place

Sent em out - DarkFenrir on 4/28 and Kirby yesterday - but they haven't formally been accepted yet, hence why they're not on the list.

I'll admit, I started my story but forgot to finish it by yesterday. I'll try to finish and post it today or tomorrow.

Gotchu fam.

Could you go ahead and accept the invite so the tags work though?

 

[Natz~]

ah okay~

 

[redfeatherraven]

Spoiler: Excerpts from Xenological Studies of the Hylotl, A.Z. Price

1,940 words.

That's mark for the week.

 

[Natz~]

and just 2 minutes before your mercy ended

 

[redfeatherraven]

The mercy deadline is nigh for redfeatherraven and DarkAura/Fenrir.

I have PASSED this week of the challenge, but my mercy is at an end.

DarkAura/Fenrir was unable to complete this week of the challenge. But the next week awaits!​

Because he did not use it, Dark's mercy has not been exhausted and may be used in a future week.

Kirby Dragons is still granted his free Mercy due to host error and may submit last week's entry without penalty at any point during week two.​

 

[redfeatherraven]

and just 2 minutes before your mercy ended

Right?

Hoo boy, I was cutting it close there. I was within 60 words of the mark with a half hour to go, but I didn't know if I could complete my thoughts and get it posted in time.

Here we are though.

I'm sure that even above and beyond adjusting the whole-cloth crafting with what I find in-game I'll probably want to make further revisions at some point. Fresh material for the rest of the week though.

 

[redfeatherraven]

Weeeeeell ****.

Not gonna make it this week either. Gonna write the remaining hour and get in what I can, but I'm fighting the urge to pass out at my comp every couple of minutes and have a paltry 400 words right now, which is an hour's worth of writing itself.

Should be able to bring myself back around tomorrow evening, get next week's in early. But there's no mercy left. This week is just a broken streak.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

I wrote a bunch of mafia roles...

That counts right?

 

[redfeatherraven]

Counts if you can smush em together and get 1750 words.

 

[Natz~]

Weeeeeell ****.

Not gonna make it this week either. Gonna write the remaining hour and get in what I can, but I'm fighting the urge to pass out at my comp every couple of minutes and have a paltry 400 words right now, which is an hour's worth of writing itself.

Should be able to bring myself back around tomorrow evening, get next week's in early. But there's no mercy left. This week is just a broken streak.

better than me

i don't even got one sentence and i've kept it up for a week, and that not even one sentece is a mishmash of terrible words, i got notes and know what i want written, but my brain is refusing to form writing

i just can't be forced to write, my brain won't let me <-> it needs to be on to do so and when that is i have no clue

so at least ya not going to the end of the week alone dude, i'll join ya

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Counts if you can smush em together and get 1750 words.

Over 2000.

Yup.

 

[Natz~]

Over 2000.

Yup.

****!

 

[Swamp Sensei]

****!

I made 23 roles Natz...

23....

 

[Natz~]

I made 23 roles Natz...

23....

i still wasn't expecting 2000! O.O

 

[Swamp Sensei]

i still wasn't expecting 2000! O.O

It's more than 2000.

That was me giving a low estimate.

 

[Natz~]

It's more than 2000.

That was me giving a low estimate.

wow

well only more fitting since its our finale and everything

give yourself a damn good pat on the back swamp

great job~

 

[redfeatherraven]

better than me

i don't even got one sentence and i've kept it up for a week, and that not even one sentece is a mishmash of terrible words, i got notes and know what i want written, but my brain is refusing to form writing

i just can't be forced to write, my brain won't let me <->

so at least ya not going to the end of the week alone dude, i'll join ya

That's where I was for the first half of my week.

Need to kind of pin down the next sections of Hylotl society I want A.Z. to check out. I know I want him to go from the surface colony to an underwater one - even know how that transition'll happen - but I still need to pin down the compare and contrast I want to do, as well as what sections of society I want to explore next. And by the time I had what I did, it was somewhere in Friday evening and I was preparing for a busy weekend.

Eh, we ain't dead though, just breaks the streak. Still got a lotta weeks' worth of glory to earn.

Over 2000.

Yup.

Daaaaaaaaamn son.

Well. Count it does.

 

[Natz~]

i'll just sit on out the second week -3- i mean what can i do, i'm basecally human sack of fat till my brain turns back on :V

 

[Pazzo.]

So with the closure of these groups soon, any plans to move somewhere else?

 

[redfeatherraven]

The current thought is Creative Minds.

I don't know if the mods'll move this thread and the others over or if we'll have to open one ourselves.

Also I know I haven't posted last week's tally, it's first day back on my proper sleep sched and I'm flitting back and forth between Mafia and ordering pizza.

 

[redfeatherraven]

I haven't forgotten y'all, mind.

This week has just sucked for me, overall, and it's been hard to find time to announce results.

I'll be going through tonight and tallying last week and this week in one go.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Hey I goofed too.

 

[Pazzo.]

I'm on a trip and don't have access to my laptop.

I'll double-up with a Splatoon fanfic on Teusday.

 

[redfeatherraven]

Hey I goofed too.

Goofing is acceptable.

Any failure is acceptable as long as we don't give in.

I'm on a trip and don't have access to my laptop.

I'll double-up with a Splatoon fanfic on Teusday.

Noted.

Won't be a penalty for you for that.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

Yeah, I know I need three submissions by today and I only have one. My second part is currently 1343 words and should be finished tomorrow, hopefully in the morning.

 

[redfeatherraven]

The deadline is nigh.
Results to follow shortly.

The next week of the challenge has begun.
Fourth week deadline is May 27, 2018.​

 

[redfeatherraven]

Took me weeks to realize I needed some more general direction with regards to base topics to work from, and a great deal less time (embarrassingly so) to seek them out. Got some more theorycrafting done outside the narrative framework I laid out, once I've got the rest of the topics fleshed I'll expand them with some more words from A.Z. Price.

The full count this week for me is 2,234 words, but there's some caveats:
- This includes headers and some sections which are essentially lists of in-game items; there's no rule about this, I'm just not fond of including those in the word counts personally, so I went over the mark in order to have some justifiable wiggle room with respect to these. I don't know how much of the document is made up of the headers and lists exactly but it sure as hell ain't almost 500 words.
- There was a 122-word section on reproduction that I've removed in this upload. I went there. I brought back a t-shirt. And if you think it's uncomfortable to imagine that, imagine how the research went. The details are mostly irrelevant and the implications mostly boil down to "no cross-breeding."
- The blank topics will be explored at a later date, and all details are open to future revision and addendum.
- Didn't bother formatting. Meant more to be a repository than a read.

Spoiler: 3-dimensional fantasy race considerations - Hylotl

I'll gather up results from the rest of you when my shift starts in about an hour-ish, both for this week and from the prior two.

And I really am sorry both for setting a terrible example these last couple weeks and, far more importantly, being lax on recognition for the work y'all have been putting in. I intend to improve on both fronts moving forward.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

My writing is focused on schoolwork.

Sorry

 

[redfeatherraven]

Reaching out about things I may have overlooked:

Kirby Dragons .
Can't find an entry for you on week four.

Natz~ , Pazzo. .
Can't find entries for you on weeks three or four.

@A0SHIMA.
Can't find entries for you on weeks two, three, or four.

@DarkAura64/Fenrir, @Opossum.
Can't find entries for you on any of the four weeks.

 

[Natz~]

i haven't put in a single entry since my first cause my brain won't let me write :V

 

[redfeatherraven]

The deadline is nigh.
Results to follow shortly.
Still looking to verify entries. Might even try a new format.

The next week of the challenge has begun.
Fifth week deadline is June 3, 2018.​