Revisiting Previous Years
2021
2021 will always be a great year for Summer Camp, since it was my first ever Summer Camp and first ever big event on World Anvil. I joined in late March this year, and the Summer Camp was such an amazing time since I really fell in love with the community then. I foolishly decided to aim for Triple Diamond that year, and failing miserably. I wrote about 60 articles, which is an amazing feat, don't get me wrong, but the articles weren't the best either.
Despite my foolish goal, I had a lovely Summer Camp and it really was what kept me in this community.
2022
This year I tried once again to do Triple Diamond. I failed again. I also reached about 60 articles, and I'm surprised I wrote this much considering I was on holiday at the start, and end, of the month. Once again I chose quantity over quality, and I'm still in the process of rewriting the articles to make them much better, haha.
Summer Camp 2022 was the first time I ever won a prize for my writing! I won the prompt "An organization considered cruel or monstrous by some". I wrote about a clandestine organisation that "studied" lifeforms that escaped the Horror Dimension. Even though I think the article I wrote was lacking, I am so proud of myself and my prize, the Yonderverse Header, is still in use to this day.
This is a very loose theme from the sounds of it. Power can refer to physical strength, which is entirely situational; a mouse has much more power than something the size of an atom. Power can refer to political power, or power dynamics, both of which have had little impact in the Yonderverse and is something I wish to expand upon.
My first thought on this theme is that there isn't much way I can tie this to ecosystems or species, which is what I enjoy writing most. Therefore I may not enjoy this theme the most, but I am still looking forward to expanding on parts of my world I probably haven't touched on much, and developing things I would not have even considered to develop.
It would be super fun to dive into some of the worldbuilding around these powerful people, especially since they are so important to the Yonderverse. Plus, who doesn't love a bit of drama?
Interesting theme! Wasn't sure on what frontiers really were before this theme was announced, but I'm glad it can be interpreted in many different ways.
This would be particularly interesting to write about. I've not written a single word about it in the Yonderverse yet, but the present date in the whole universe is actually the first point of the year 0, what ever the smallest measurement of time is. For hundreds of years, scientists, engineers, and all those fellas have been working on a device that would reset all time, to one specific date. This would be known as the Universal Clock, which every person on every planet, everywhere, would follow.
It would be fun to write about what happens as the scientists are on the precipice of this scientific breakthrough, since it's so important to my world and I haven't written anything about it. In fact, I only came up with the idea a week or so ago.
The Yonderverse is 640 billion years old, so without a doubt there are some important relics floating about. I was very excited to see this theme be revealed as the History of the Yonderverse is something I've only properly figured out and worked on recently.
Relics are an important part of history, for everything, not just the Yonderverse. Despite my setting's canonical age, I have not worked on it much, so I am hoping Summer Camp gives me a chance to flesh out the history of my entire universe, rather than just a single planet. As much as I enjoy fleshing out individual planets, I would like more of an understanding of the history of my world as a whole.
What a great last theme! People are stretched out so far away in the Yonderverse, and communicating over galaxies is literally the norm. Living in the Milky Way but have a bestie in the Pereleos Galaxy? Not an issue at all, there's so many ways of communicating. Unfortunately, I've not thought about how people communicate in space at all. This'll be the perfect time to, though!
I wish you the best of luck, Mochi!
Thank you, you too! :D