Summer Camp 2022 Pledge
My participation in Summer Camp will be from the beginning until the 20th of July. Beyond that I do not plan on spending any time writing or at a computer as I will be in an outdoor summer camp doing outdoor stuff!
At this point it is likely that three of the five prompt badges will be released.
Creative Goals
My creative goal for summer camp is to expand the World Behind The Veil in a fitting manner for the given themes. As the themes do not really match my original ideas I did have to do some adjusting, but I think that is fine!- Expanse: The scope of my world building project does not really allow me to have an expanse in a massive way. New York City is the geographic scope as a urban expanse itself, though that article of course already exists. My current focus is to make add enough points of interest in Manhattan that each part of it has something interesting to look at. One interesting aspect will be to add article or two about the neighbourhoods of Manhatten to further focus my worldbuilding. The theme of this section could be gentrification and community. As an alternative I could write about the New York Harbour and the creatures inside of it and the things that happen on it.
- Leadership: There are many different types of leaders in the organizations that I have written about and would like to expand on. I will try to focus this on the members of the Elder Council. Each member is an important leader in one way or another of vampire societies and communities. At the same time they should have enough variance to allow adjusting things for any type of prompt! The elder council is a key organization in the political landscape of the world for vampires and their most important factions. As a result many different types of leaders are members of the council or have close ties to it. Fleshing out these leaders should allow me to show the place of vampires in the world.
- Discovery: A topic that I wish to use to explore new interactions between technology and magic. This field has many emerging new fields of study and new technologies that are being developed and released into the world. Existing technologies include Magic-Suppression Array, Soul Technology Research and Velociraptor. This topic allows me to freely add stuff that are a bit magic-y and a bit science-y.
- Monstrous: This will mostly likely serve to add some creepy mythical creatures, curses or whatever. I will try to focus this on Native American cultures. Alternatively I will use slavic culture to find a fitting topic to write about. This will require the most research as it is important to ensure that the real world inspirations is reflected in a good way in my world. (Though as I will not actually get these prompts its unlikely that I will implement this. Maybe in August.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you get as many prompts as mathematically possible so that you can better choose what you write. Otherwise, the expansion ideas sound nice. I'll be looking forward to your articles, but I also hope you have fun at the other summer camp ^^.
Thank you! Good motivation and inspiration to you with SC! :)