WorldEmber 2019

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"Official" progress report


An overview of my targets for this event:-


1: Write at least 50,000 "qualifying" words. - Met with 54,816 words
2: Use all the templates (though I'm struggling to see how I can use the plot one at the moment). - Missed with 19/24
3: To write at least 100 articles. - Missed with 82
4: To explore and develop three main themes

i) The town of Morton, capitol of the Moran Duchy. Met, it's almost getting there as a place to use.

ii) The history and culture of the Taru, the first human culture to establish in Tarusia. - Not as much as I'd hoped

iii) The original inhabitants of Tarusia; their history, cultures and interactions with humans. - Not as much as I'd hoped

5: To provide constructive feedback on 30 articles from co-competitors - I had this in Summercamp and failed miserably. So it's back to see if I can do better. Missed by a mile (see below)


This article will serve as a hub for these articles and a progress tracker.

All the detail, if I keep it up to date

Template	Articles Released on the Unsuspecting Community
Buildings	Guilds Care The Stranded Wyvern Scribehall Hallack's New Market The Golden Eye Ferry Inn Stockyard Dukes Ferry
Characters	Weruru
Conditions	None yet
Conflicts	The Monkin-doo and the Monkin-ban Covrin Wars
Documents	None yet
Ethnicities	None yet
Geography	River Durran Marivar Moran Mountains
Items	Shrine of a Household God Atmospheric Projector
Languages	None yet
Natural Laws	Household Gods
Materials	narrokan Nightsoil Arrok Firestone
Military Units	Morton Militia
Myths & Legends	How the Taru Came to Tarusia Monkin Creation Myth
Organizations	Soup Sisters Gongsters Morton Drakiss Pledge Ward Tithing Battocks Boys Morton Masons Guild Merchant Venturers Anvilmen
Professions	Genieman Berman Moneymaker tallyman Striker Scourer
Plots	None yet
Ranks & Titles	Alderman Tithar
Settlements	Morton The Strand Duckwood Woodhouses Wharfare Castleward Scrivens Hammersward Titheyards Palace Ward Lawry Bankside Tawley Outer Morton
Species	Monkin Monkin-doo Monkin-ban Narrok Tree Drakiss mogfish
Spells	Flyaway Farsight
Technologies	Digester
Traditions	Rite of Passing Rite of Passage Hearthtime Evens Wallrace Narravine
Vehicles	Durran Barge
Generic	The Origins of Morivian Religion Tale of HunnockReally a Myth/Legend Mines of the Monkin-doo Waste Management in MortonReally a Technology History and Development of Morton - Some Questions Answered Spinning Really a Technology

Thoughts and Learnings as at 01-Jan-2020

The first thing to say is that I suffered from not having prepared enough (more on this below). That reduced my enjoyment and meant that I did very little for a block of a week to 10 days in the middle of the month. I needed to step back and do some prep before I could get going again. I also fell victim to wordcountitis - its great to get some of the ideas down but (1) will I get round to rounding them out, linking them up and so on once the "no fiddling" period is over? and (2) it left me focused in on what I was doing and not enjoying what other people were up to.
Overall - I'd call it a moderate success. It definitely left me with a much better idea of the town of Morton, but at the expense of my other aims and making the world horribly unbalanced.
On preparation... If I'd only been looking to do 10,000 to 20,000 words this would not have been so much of a problem (and would have reduced the rush) but I'd not stubbed much out for expansion, and even where I had, the limit of 50 words didn't give much to work with if I wanted to mention a couple of ideas and flag a few things that it linked to. I thought about using the notebook or similar but that felt too much like cheating. I'll probably want to revisit that approach if 2020 sees something similar.