Summer Camp '26 Prep
Assignments
1: Pledge
Hello! Am I doing this right? I'm borrowing the format from another creator as I try to figure out what items I create and publish actually appear on my world's public page.
2: Area of Focus
"Saltrush Flats is a former way station and salt mining village that has grown into the host for the region's largest harvest festival."
I followed up my week 1 location article with a second article on the game championship itself that happens there, combining for 2800 words across both articles. The article on Saltrush Flats also gave me a laundry list of people, places, and themes to expand upon, so I think it's safe to say I will be focusing here for a while.
3: Plan your writing time
... It's awfully sweet for this to suggest, but I am perpetually over-booked. To paraphrase Prince Humperdink, "I have my company to provide IT for, a dance to learn for 1776, a family to provide for, and four more "Carl" books to read. I'm swamped."
Thankfully, I picked the smallest option for the number of prompts in July's Summer Camp. The musical ends July 5, and the only other theatre I have scheduled for myself is an audition the weekend after. There are several games I'm falling behind on - and in the process, they are feeling more like maintenance than progression - so I might wind up having more time than I think.
Still, I'll aim for only a half-hour in the evenings post-1776, and an hour minimum on Sat and Sun each week.
Addendum
As predicted, the opening of 1776 stole away any time I had to write. I'll come back and fold in the prompts for weeks 3 and 4, but they obviously do not count towards completion.
Hopscotch
Week 1, May 30 - Theme: Love
I picked "4 - add new articles." In hindsight, I suppose this meta article also counts - I created it after I published my prompt and found that it wouldn't connect to the contest. Hopefully this one will.
The Settlement of Saltrush Flats has a particular story attached to it: "Only those with a love for the game are truly happy living in Saltrush Flats."
This will be an interesting merge, as in my mind, the Championship tournament was a later genre than what I had in mind for the rest of Destiny Street. But as I wrote out the settlement, I found it could fit in with the age and tech level of everything else.
Now if I can just set a current date and work backwards with events. AND write all the supplemental articles that I found had created themselves as my brain dumped everything it was holding for this place.
Week 2, June 6 - Theme: Growth
So, I kind of did this before looking at the hopscotch: "4 - plan the category structure." I was confused about why my recent, published articles did not show up within my world page's "recent articles" list. (And still am, to be honest.) Plus, I couldn't figure out how to submit Saltrush Flats to the homework. Several other creators' homework pages appeared so I used them for ideas.
The prompt is for a geographic location with different kinds of ecosystems. As of today (6/7/26), inspiration has not struck for that, but I did flesh out a lot of the tournament itself. This also inadvertently has a theme of growth running through it, so I've added it to my prompts as a "bonus" for this week, even though bonuses don't exist.
This also added the name of another building within the town and the name of another gambler. Before this, "Fynnegan's Lucky Die" was just my sample explanation of how magic items work in the world. Now I have story beats.
June 8: I made a map!
I tooled around with Inkarnate today and made a map. I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out. AND, it has at least five biomes on it!
Week 3, June 13 - Theme: Loss
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Week 4, June 20 - Theme:
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Completed Prompts
Week 1: Love
Week 2: Growth
Saltrush Flats Championship (tradition)
Week 3: Loss
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Week 4:
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Beautiful map!
Your freind,
The Graiffe
Working hard at Summercamp 2026