#institutionsoflearning

Hi there, everyone. I know that I have been absent for a minute. I updated the paid Introductory Interns and above, but I just thought that I should also address free followers, dollar patrons, one-time supporters, and others who would like to be in-the-know.   The past week was hectic because I was out of town helping my brother WildZooGuy film a production. Please do check him out and give him a follow. Cool content should be posted in the future and you may even see me in it!   I hope the trip was considered a productive success for him. Meanwhile, I was hardly able to work on any of my own projects at all, which left me with a lot of catching up to do when I finally made it home. This included some freelance gigs that were due along with my creative endeavors and things I owe to you all. I also now feel a bit under the weather, which is unfortunate. And I had to return to my weekend cashier job. And things are still quite turbulent on the financial side, but I've still just been trying to keep praying and keep going. Prayers are much appreciated.   Despite all that, as I returned, several things were wrapping up. I managed to draw a bit on the plane and at the hotel so I could post my Spooktober entry as soon as possible when I got home. I ended up finishing it the morning of the big red button being pressed on stream to end the challenge lol. You can check out The Pages Left Behind and even discover a new art trading platform that I’ve been part of for a bit called New Embers. It’s just ramping up and they’ve added some of my packs to collect! If you’d like to support indie artists without AI or NFTs, you can sign up for free. You get new free packs to open every day, and you can unlock the platform’s currency by completing achievements and interacting in the community! They also accept real-money payment to refill your currency, and the artists can cash out when they hit a certain amount in their bank. If you’d like, you can also become an artist on the platform yourself and submit your own packs to be traded. It’s so much fun and the creators and artists seem so kind. Please do check it out. If you sign up through my link, we’ll both get free currency!   Anyways, during that same stream where they closed the Spooktober challenge, it was announced that my article, Pumilla Academia actually WON the Institutions of Learning Challenge! I was absolutely shocked when I initially figured out that I’d been added to the shortlist. I thought it must have been due to pity or something. I never got added to any WorldAnvil shortlist, and I never won any article contest or anything like that on WorldAnvil ever before. Also, my CSS was a bit wonky and the page had too many gaps because I wanted it to fit on mobile but I didn’t have the time to make it actually right, so I added a lot of spaces from my phone on the day before that challenge was closed on stream lol. In addition, my mom pointed out that I literally had a spelling error in the first sentence on the whole page. In the word EDUCATION, for crying out loud. And this is an Institutions of Learning challenge. I facepalmed so much but couldn’t edit it. Even though I figured I wouldn’t win, I didn’t want to edit it until it was announced I hadn’t made the shortlist (which didn’t happen) so I waited until it was announced I didn’t win (which didn’t happen). Lol I am just so weirded out that I won and I want to thank everyone for congratulating me, reading the article, and all that. Much love. I still feel like an imposter though.   In addition to all this, spooky time is here! There is fun galore happening in the Infinite Imaginations discord server, including a Trick-Or-Treating event in which secrets are being discovered…   I also announced that tickets for the full Only the Haunting Nightmares audio movie (with some visual elements) are now on sale! Last year’s Spooktober project ended on a cliffhanger and I wasn’t able to complete it all, but I have tried hard to get the second half ready for everyone. If you’d like to attend, there are several showtimes. Please check the listing to see if there is a slot that aligns with your schedule.   If you don’t remember anything about it, you can head over to this page for a sampler. Here is the synopsis:
 

It’s the Thirty-First of October and strange things are happening. Despite the odd occurrences, Someone and Constance are sent on a dangerous mission to catch an elusive killer. However, all is not as it seems...

  Much more is in store. Please stay tuned! I thank everyone for their ongoing support, be it in payment, reading, encouragement, likes, follows, subscriptions, or anything of the sort. God bless and much success to you all with your own endeavors. Sending prayers, love, and healing hugs always. <3   edit: I always forget to add hashtags #spooktober #spooktober2024 #institutionsoflearning #challenge

I hope everyone had a great month! I've been scrolling through some community posts and it looks like a lot of people did! This month went by really fast for some reason, but it was good! I wrote three articles with a combined total of over 6,000 words (!!!) and got to participate in #InstitutionsofLearning, which was pretty cool. My goal for this month was to write about sentient species, which I did. I wrote about the Rhyhendra and Denironians, two very important ones. I didn't get to the Dito, but I honestly don't have that much about them and would need to do that first. Both of the articles are a little dark since the Rhyhendra were wiped out in a mass genocide and the Denironians are...a little violent to say the least. Looking forward to October, I don't really have any major plans. I wasn't originally going to participate in Spooktober, but I might just to honor Godzilla's 70th anniversary (it's my brother's favorite movie series). In my personal challenge, I tentatively suggested October Organizations/Occupations, so jobs and stuff. Maybe I'll finally get the CKGs article done or work on Storm Wardens in Jerde.
  Anyway, I think September was a decent but uneventful month and I'm hoping October will be more interesting. Good luck with all of your plans and projects this month!

Hey all! It's time for another dose of Lapis and company!
  Read Chapter 33 here and
  read Chapter 34 here.
  Wrethe brings news, and Tuft shows his softer side.
 
  #DarkFantasy #ScienceFantasy #ScienceFiction
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  To save my sanity, I deleted my Ghost Pirate University CSS and BBCode because something was wrong and I couldn't figure out what. I rewrote it and it's live and submitted to Institutions of Learning Challenge!
  Pirate Captain Drowned Dough and lawful Lieutenant Trevel realize that tourists need training to have fun during sea battle re-enactments--so create Ghost Pirate University to teach them how to pirate.
 
  #InstitutionsofLearning
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  My week was mostly spent on my challenge entry, and crying because something was wrong with the article and I couldn't figure out what. I saved the writing to a test article, deleted everything, and went from there.
  I've officially started the 2nd edition edits of Ambercaast, which will basically consist of spellchecking again and breaking chapters into smaller chunks (my opinion on long chapters for serials has changed since I first started Ambercaast). Not certain when I'll get it done, since I also need to finish Abyss of Dreams, my Wellspring WIP that really, really needs to get finished.
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  Well, that's it for this week. Take care all
  Kwyn

It has been a quiet couple weeks here, the creativity literally dragging its feet as I tried to finish anything at all. With a little bit of writing each day, I was finally able to finish one article this month, but I think it was worth it.
  Here's my entry for the Institutions of Learning challenge, barely finished in time to write this post today.
  This month has been a hard one for creativity but I'm excited to try again in October hopefully with Spooktober. Shiftrex may be joining me for the event with some pixel art so keep an eye out for whatever shenanigans await us in Isekai.
  #RiverRush #IsekaiNews #InstitutionsofLearning

New lore just dropped lets goooooooooo. As you could probably sniff out this is my entry for #InstitutionsofLearning Those familiar with my writing probably knew the wordcap was gonna be rough on me, and it was, but I still had a LOT of fun cooking this one up. I hope you enjoy!!!

I've been hard at work on improving my article for World Anvil's current challenge! Over the past few weekends I've been adding more and more to my article, and just a little bit ago I added a bunch of clues to figure out a password to a secret article! I'm very excited, never done this before, and I'm excited to add more interactivity to my world and this challenge entry. Hope people enjoy! How's the challenge going for everyone else?
 
 

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  #mochievements #InstitutionsofLearning #challenge #ArticleShare

This is such a fun challenge! I can't wait to see what everybody writes, and seeing sneak peeks around various WA-related discord servers, I am very excited to see what everyone has in store.
  Here's my entry! I'm getting it published early so I can continue editing it here and there, as I want to really go for a win!
 
 

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#mochievements #InstitutionsofLearning #challenge