WorldEmber 2021

Do your best, even if your best is simply to try.

In an effort to stay creative and continue creating this world that I love, I, Stormbril, will write as much as I can in a healthy way during December, with the hope, but not expectation, of reaching a minimum of 10k words. If I fail, I will be happy with what I have created regardless!

— Stormbril

You might've seen the update I posted to my profile, but phew, it's been quite the November. And now it's almost December!
What am I gonna do?!?
Probably do my best to approach things in a calm and planned manner, using what I've already created to make my new writing go easier and smooth. I've got some stubs (like we all do!) that I can work on, and some art that I've never created an article for.

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Things to avoid!

Burnout from trying to handle too many things at once >:(

FOMO, it's okay if I don't complete it all while others do

Stress, focus on health and the important things first

Writing for rewards or badges, rather than enjoyment

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Stats!

Articles Written

4

Wordcount

10,123

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My Previous Embers/Camps

Plans

Every year, I make plans, and every year I only follow some of em. But that's okay! I'm a fan of loosely planning these big events, and then improvising as needed. A good mix of planning and pantsing. Below this section, I will lay out some of my stubs, ideas, and pre-made artwork that I'd like to make use of.

Stubs

The Seven Day War

This is something that's been planned since the inception of this world. An overview of the carnage and chaos during the 7 days in which every god fought, resulting in the God-husks.

Rumours of the 15th

Something that's been referred to here and there in some of my Legion articles, in particular the base article on the Legion themselves! Nasty whispers are going around the world of Cathedris, putting forth the idea that the Legion is attempting to build their own new god.

Sacred Land Scars

Some easy, fun writing, particularly if I do the Seven Day War stub. This will be an overview article containing a series of articles on different landmarks around the world, all formed during the Seven Day War.

Artwork

Every WorldEmber so far, I've done at least 1 God-husk. If I am to do one this year, it will certainly be T'kalia I write about.

Other Ideas

Make use of existing CSS

In particular, make use of some of the really fancy CSS I put into The Comprilith! I've got an idea for how to use some of it, and I'm planning on working the CSS into the Seven Day War article.

Write species for fun

There's two ideas, totally unrelated to the rest of the world atm, but still a fun idea to write. A mushroom species, and a species of birds. Both of them might let me just create without the stress of making sure things stay canon!

Other unused ideas

Currency (Legion Steel, a currency used by the Legion to pay their soldiers), a completion of the Comprilith CYOA story (How are you going to escape??), or some other small articles. There's plenty that I can do!

That's about as much as I'm going to let myself plan. As I mentioned earlier, these are just loose plans and I'll likely deviate from them entirely. Any good plan is one that plans for the unplanned, after all! In the end I'm just hoping to get a little bit of creating in.

Special Thanks

To everyone in the Lodge, you all know who you are, thank you <3 I likely wouldn't even be here, still creating, if it weren't for you all. You're truly the best, and are an infinite source of inspiration and determination to me.

Articles written during World Ember

As is tradition for me at this point, I started off World Ember strong with my big polished article for the event! Right within the first week, I wrote and completed The Seven Day War. It's full of God-husks and CSS, exactly what you'd expect from me at this point :D

And then I was busy until the last two days of the event :D

But, a couple days before the end, I managed to get a burst of inspiration! And, in a surprise twist, I actually did follow some of what I had planned in the beginning of this pledge. I wrote the species of mushrooms I had mentioned, I did the Sacred Land Scars overview, and I wrote a very important story-seeding article, Rumours of the 15th :O

And now we're into the reading challenge, and the Bard challenge! Busy busy busy :D I've picked out my articles for the reading challenge, I'm just currently, y'know, reading em. And figuring out what I want to say about each! Look forward to that coming soon!