My favorite article is probably the one I worked hardest on, The Battle of the Alse. It received the most likes I've ever gotten on an article and all the feedback helped me improve it even more. Writing about countries and characters was easy for me and whenever I felt the need to get a bunch of words written, I would start working on those things. The hardest part was realizing my own limits and that 5k every day was a bit too much, especially since I was still tired from the 60k that I wrote during NaNoWriMo. I learned a lot about formatting and all that good stuff. Next year I will try to plan ahead and take things slower in hopes that I won't burn out again.
My favorite article would be the one talking about the Creation Project, an organization that I wanted to write about since I was in high school. For me, the easiest part was coming up with the ideas for the articles, since many of them were the ones I had since I was a little kid (I just had to change them a little). The hardest were the first 10 days before I joined the Discord. Every day I wanted to just give up. But joining the Discord and talking with other authors helped me a lot. I learned that I need to set myself small, everyday goals to motivate myself to work. And how to use BBCode (thanks everyone ;P). For next year I'll prepare some art and will try to advertise my articles more.
1. This was really hard to decide. I like my head-sculptor article but I think that I will go with this one. It was the first article I wrote for my newest world which I came up with during this event :3
2. Huuuuuuum. Deciding what articles to write. 3. Deciding what to write in the articles that I wanted to write about. 4. I need to plan a lot more ahead before the next WE...and that if I can't come up with what to write just write on another article. 5.Do more research before WE starts and plan for what to do if I become sick or something happens. Ponder schedule better and maybe take out vacation at the end of the month too.
Which Of The Articles You've Written For WorldEmber Is Your Favorite?
My personal favorite article is probably the one about Zhar'Dark, an extremely important character of Stellaria Aeterna, but it's mainly because it's with THIS article that we overwhelmed our word record in one article :p
What About WorldEmber Was Easiest?
I honestly thought that World Ember needing on 10k words wasn't extremely hard to complete, or even easy.
What Was Hardest?
On another hand, worldbuild to reach the highest scores, from 100 to 200 thousand words, was extremely hard, as we evolve with very clean ideas, then we write more deeper aspects.
What Did You Learn?
One thing. Anchors. I experimented a lot on them, and damn, this is so nice for long articles! (But I have forgotten to add that on Zhar, longest article xD)
What Will You Do Differently For Next Year?
Next year, first, I will prepare more deeply my placeholders and artworks to lose A LOT less time to write. Also, I will try to have more time; I am investing so much of it into my studies :/
1) - cute for the win! 2) After all the preparation hype, the first 10k went by quickly, and it was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. 3) The hardest was the push to 50k - I had seen how much I can write in a short time, and I felt like with that speed I had to push to 50k and it would be inacceptable to give in. The pressure completely blocked my writing. I actually had to allow myself to give in and remind myself of what I had achieved and what I had wanted to do with World Ember, only then all of a sudden writing came back and I still managed to reach the 50k. 4) A lot of things: Managing my expectations, realizing how I write and what works best for me when I worldbuild. And of course, how much the community can carry you through hard times. I think the last part is my favorite about it! 5) Prepare differently - I realized how integral characters are for my worldbuilding, and how much they reveal about the world when I plan them. I will definitely use the character creation template I made for myself during Wolrd Ember and prepare a lot more characters. Most places I had in my mind ended up dry and boring when I wrote them, but as soon as a character had a connection to a place, it came alive together with the character. A lot of people told me to do characters beforehand, and I felt I just worked differently, until I finally started working on characters.
My favourite:
The easiest part was tying everything together. There was a lot of gaps from the summer challenge and people I hadn't gotten around to writing for (still have two of The Nine to write about!) Hardest thing was simply finding time, LIFE! I think I need a little bit more of time gap to reflect on what I learned. Next year, I'll just book December off so I have time ;)
As for my favorite article, it would probably be the kava plant, which is really one of my more inspired articles (even though I think it dropped from the species shortlist). The easiest about WorldEmber was writing, the hardest probably waiting for it to start lol. What will I do differently? I'll write more I guess, I missed my 50k target due to unforseen circumstances.
This was a tough time to decide. My favourite article for worldember would be the article I wrote for Aiden Tallorann, one of the protagonists of my story and probably the greatest and most detailed character I have ever made. It was also my most liked article on world anvil so far, garnering 10 likes from people who saw the amount of effort I put into him. Here’s the link https://www.worldanvil.com/w/cadmeia-redclaw123/a/aiden-tallorann-article-1. Worldember was easy on all aspects except for the final parts where burnout was a big issue. Overall I don’t know what I will do differently next year but I will set a goal for myself to advance the story and hopefully move on to the other worlds of my storyline and build them as they will be even more important than the world of Cadmeia.
I'd say my favorite article was the one I made for my world's goddess of creation, Nhaderys. It's not very lengthy, and does not include any history (yet) but it really got my brain going on how the other gods and planes of my world were created over time. Those are all articles for other days! The easiest part of WorldEmber for me was typing my articles and getting my information published. The hard part was convincing myself to sit down and do it! I learned that I need to focus on organizing my thoughts, perhaps take some notes, and understand what articles I need to make to link everything together. At the same time, I found that hard to do when building from scratch, because I would make up new places, cities, lore figures, and more with each individual article I wrote. What am I doing differently next year? Not waiting for the last few days to get most of my writing done! That's the big one! I could have easily broken 50k if I gave myself time. And I suppose next year I'll actually post my articles for people to read and like. I didn't do it at all.
My favourite, though there are several candidates, i think is the very first one i wrote, about world crafting. I'm also quite fond of my tossabeak, stormerki international, and my mmo themed articles though. The easiest was to me was the first 10k. I was doing a project to do one of every template and in the beginning, i hadn't done the easiest ones yet (species). The most difficult were article types such as language, plot and military conflict. Another challenge was getting things read. I learned a lot though about sharing with the community (which was a big personal challenge for me because i get performance anxiety), and i learned about writing many different things. Next year, i'd like to have more art and such prepared beforehand, so that i don't need as many placeholders.
World Crafting
The crafting of worlds which can only be performed by specialists using specialized tools and materials.