WorldEmber 2024 Prep

The start of November kicks off a month of preparation for WorldEmber (And also NovelEmber)! This will be my first WorldEmber event.  
WorldEmber 2024
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WorldEmber 2024 Entries

 

Pledge

I've decided to go for the gold old 10k words of worldbuilding for the pledge. I had no problems with the summer camp this year, answering all 42 prompts, and I don't believe I'll have a problem with this event.
WorldEmber 2024 Pledge

Assignments

Week 1: Pledge your Goal

Set word goal
(Initially Completed)


Choose your area of focus
(Initially Completed)
Most of this will be based on my Create Backlog list on a Trello Board.  
  • I need to work on some characters and fill out more information about them. Maybe even a little bit of some biography. (Probably won't count towards event because they already exist)
  • I also need to work on the various stub articles created during the summer camp event.
  • Create countries / states
  • Add a few more settlements
  • Add some missing characters
  • Create more dragonkin species

  • Update your Meta
    (Completed 11-06-2024)
    Well I've updated it a couple times, back during the Summer Camp prep, but I guess I can take a look at what else I can do.

    Week 2: Prepare world for new readers

    Review Homepage
    (Completed 11-16-2024)
    Maybe it could use some updating? I'm actually not too keen on the borders for the homepage categories section, but that's about it.   I've also thought of adding content warning tags for the world in general, on the homepage.
    Review introduction page
    (Completed 11-12-2024)
    Probably could update it a few sections of it, but I feel like most of it's fine.
    Set up community tools
    (Initially Completed)
    Already done! I've put follow buttons in various places on the site. My discord server is also linked in various places. I don't really have much of a use for subscriber groups, except for Insider Exclusive information for people who support me on Substack.
    CSS Wizardry
    (Completed 11-20-2024)
    Oh this I have very much done, but I feel like there's still some pages that could use mobile friendly CSS. I'll have to take a look at which ones need it. Aside from that, not sure what other CSS I would need to do, except maybe something with the homepage? But that'd be something like a redesign, do I don't know about that.   Edit: I cleaned up some CSS, and added an outdated article warning for certain articles. Also changed the tagging system a bit for highlighting menu items.
     

    Week 3: Hunt for Inspiration

    Read a book or watch a movie
    (Initially Completed)
    I'm not really sure what book or movie has the same mid-tech solarpunk and dragons. But, a new season of Arcane on Netflix has come out, which has been an inspiration to my thing, so I've been watching that. Also been watching Mystery of Aaravos, which was another inspiration.
    Create a moodboard
    idk what this is really, but ok   Sidenote: I need to upload inspiration stuff I've saved on my phone to my asset manager thing.
    Expand playlist
    (Initially Completed)
    Unfortunetly, me being a music artist, I will sit there analyzing the music rather than write. I'm thinking of sticking to my 11 hour skyrim background music video at about 50% volume. I think 11 hours is plenty of time haha. Maybe listen to that Valhalla Calling Me acapella version a couple times too.   I do have a music inspirations playlist on youtube, but it's a whole mix of stuff.

    Week 4: HARNESS THE POWER

    Find a community
    (Completed 11-23-2024)
    Friends?   Someone randomly joined my discord, so I'm counting it! lol
    Dragonguard Discord
    Plan your writing schedule
    (Completed 11-25-2024)
    All day every day.   No but really, my siblings won't be here until after Christmas. I can pretty much work on worldbuilding for the whole month, except for like the very last week of December.   Maybe a few days every now and then I'll take a break and play some games with friends or something.
    Get some fresh air!
    (Completed 11-25-2024?)
    Touch grass? But it's almost December, it's too cold!   Maybe if it actually snows this year I'll get to enjoy it. (But I won't enjoy scraping ice off my car before I go to work at midnight.)


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    Comments

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    Nov 22, 2024 15:51 by Jo Knight

    Good luck for your first WorldEmber!

    Nov 22, 2024 18:38

    Thanks! :)


    Fly high, Guardian. o7
    — Nulcheck ¦ Dragonguard Legend
    Nov 25, 2024 20:06 by Elspeth

    Good luck reaching your goal! I hope you have an excellent first WorldEmber!

    So many worlds to choose from...
    Nov 25, 2024 23:32

    Thank you! Good luck to you too :)


    Fly high, Guardian. o7
    — Nulcheck ¦ Dragonguard Legend
    Nov 26, 2024 10:58

    Best of luck for your first worldember, I hope the words flow easily!


    Sit down, my friend, and let me tell you of Aran'sha . A world where the sands shift and the stars sing, where the wind carries secrets and the twin moons keep silent vigil over it all.
    Nov 26, 2024 17:08

    Thank you! ε>


    Fly high, Guardian. o7
    — Nulcheck ¦ Dragonguard Legend
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