2024 Summer Camp: Homework

~ * ' Summer Camp Prep Month! ' * ~

Gah, I'm excited. Regardless of what's been happening in my life, I've always managed to complete summer camp challenges, be it copper or diamond.

This year feels a little different. I don't feel the pressures to write perfectly or "enough." At the moment, I just want enjoy the process and get excited with the community.

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Week 1: Changes & Getting Organized

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Assignment 1: Consider what kind of changes would fit in with your world's themes, genre, and other foundational points.
Assignment 2: Based on this, decide how many prompts you'll go for during Summer Camp. Then, download the pledge document and fill it accordingly!
Assignment 3: Get your categories and tags organized!
Assignment 4: Take a look at your meta, primer, and any other high-level document and update it according to the current state of your world.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Weaving: Fulfilling art practice, healing, or manipulative tactic? The morality varies but its primarily the purpose explored here. The purpose and planning that goes into a marvelous tapestry is going to be different than random things strung together. While both are beautiful, they exude different kinds of beauty. One is the beauty of intention, the other is beauty of intuition. Neither is better or worse than the other. Both are important and have their place in story telling.

• Weaving webs & Spiders
• Weaving a new tapestry
• Reworking an old tapestry
• Stories
• Lies
• Sutures

Life & Death: Where does healing end and reanimation begin? Who can say what's appropriate? Where does the line cross from divine to demonic? Does it ever?

• Cycle of life and death
• Reanimation is quite a change
• Changes of opinion

Magic v. Technology: There are dissenting opinions on the safety of wielding magic and utilizing technology. Most people on the Claw Continent consider magic to be a major part of daily life.

• Innovations in both fields
• Combinations of the two
• Changes of opinion

Summer Camp 2024 Pledge Document by World Anvil Team!

Summer Camp Tag: sc-2024

Week 2: Refuge, Accountability, & Style

Music, Cats, & Worldbuilding

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Assignment 1: Consider what kinds of refuge would fit in with your world's themes, genre, and other foundational points.
Assignment 2: Find a community—whether that’s our Discord server, Facebook Group, your RPG or friend group, or something else.
Assignment 3: Find ways to improve styling and layout in your world!
Assignment 4: If you’re a CSS wizard, maybe take the time now to give it a polish!

Refuge

Ideas and Such

• Priscilla's Potent Pastries - Tea, pastries, friendly people, & a cat, if that's your thing. It's definitely mine.
• Vie Aranche - Unknown by the world at large, this fertile land is coursing with magic that will grow any plant.
• Webbed Temple - A refuge for souls who need to be realigned with themselves after years of suffering. A torture building for others. Depends on who you ask.
• Mark of the Survivor - Finding peace within yourself and embracing it.
• Bardway - Welcomes musicians from Stagpost the safety to perform and be themselves.
• Luna Asylum - This reclaimed building is now dedicated to embracing magic and inner selves.

Room to Expand
Weaving

• Art in and of itself is a refuge. Creating something with your hands especially. Perhaps, a textile of sorts will fit here? Could be a Claw Continent counterpart to the Heart of Asma? Or something made in Aquafalls.
• Written and spoken word can be a refuge. The Grimmers in Grimgate find their voices in slam poetry.
• Your work can be your refuge. For some medical personel, the world cannot be controlled but a suture can.

Life & Death

• Clerics and physicians have the ability to heal. Their presence can be a comfort to others and their abilities can be a refuge for themselves.
• The possibility of rebirth is a refuge. Whether that rebirth comes through persistent attempts to grow or reanimation, certainly changes things...
• For some, the opposite is true. The promise of death and an afterlife.

Magic v. Technology

• Wielding magic or science can be a comfort. Safety & protection, however, offer a different kind of comfort than heart-settling peace.
• Lands cultivated by natural magic can offer a refuge, like the Vie Aranche.

Accountability: After life life-ing last year, I threw off my worldbuilding's groove.

We're sorry but you've thrown off the worldbuilding's groove.

~Sorryyyyyyyyyy~

I'm pretty self-motivated, so the accountabilibuddy system isn't quite my thing. Mutual excitement and fangirling over WA and nerdy shtuff, on the other hand, *chef's kiss*. This year, I'm hoping to get a few friends into Summer Camp (calling you out, Lastelleluna!!).

Week 3: Belief & Inspiration

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Assignment 1: Consider what kind of beliefs would fit in with your world's themes, genre, and other foundational points.
Assignment 2: Create a bank of inspirations! Quotes, music, description of experiences and shower thoughts, etc.
Assignment 3: Find art and pictures that inspire you, and grab a map if you don't have one (and need one).
Assignment 4: Check your inspirations again. Are they still relevant? Can you find any that better represent the current state of your project?

I believe in a thing called love

just listen to the rhythm of my heart

The major groups whose beliefs will be analyzed during Summer Camp are the followers of Malmi and Basi. As such, magic and technology won't be a super important theme, unless Orie Country is analyzed in the prompts. They rely on technology and abhor magic.

Weaving

Malmi's Followers	Basi's Followers
Malmi wove the world, bringing life. Weaving is a virtuous act.	Malmi manipulates the world. Weaving exists on a spectrum and can be used for good (artistry) or evil (manipulation).

Life & Death

Malmi's Followers	Basi's Followers
Healing magic is good. Necromantic magic is evil.	Life magic exists on a spectrum but is not defined by good or evil. Necromantic magic is pure and justifiable. People's intentions have the ability to make it evil.

Magic vs Technology

Malmi's Followers	Basi's Followers
Magic is the purest way to honor Malmi, followed by the textile arts. Opinions on technology is fairly neutral.	Both magic and technology can be used for good or evil. Magic honors Basi, especially life magic. Technology is a neutral-positive bonus.

Pinterest Board

WA SC 2024

Spotify Playlists by theme
Little warning: these playlists are PolyJamorous, contain lyrics, and loosely relate to the themes. I put these together for jamming between prompts. My typical playlists for writing are classical music or video game/movie soundtracks but I wanted something a little different this year.

Week 4: Decay & Final Prep

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Assignment 1: Consider what kind of decay would fit in with your world's themes, genre, and other foundational points.
Assignment 2: If you like special tea when you write, stock up for a month. Tidy your office, make a “do not disturb” sign, and think about any other last-minute strategies to optimize your writing space and time!
Assignment 3: Review your world homepage to hook potential readers!
Assignment 4: Take a look at your author profile and pillar articles on your world and polish them!

Decay

This topic is part of Tarantellia's core themes: Life & Death! The last week of prompts is going to be amaaazing.
Fun side note: My partner randomly picked The Last of Us for us to watch tonight. The ideas are percolating. Now, I just need to convince him to join us for Summer Camp.
Life & Death
In Tarantellia, the cycles of life and death are a core theme relating to 1) how the world was made, 2) the magic pulsing through the planet's core, 3) a major tenet of the necromatic deity Basi's followers, 4) the seasons on the Claw Continent, and 5) how destruction births growth. Focusing on decay, there's a component that things may never be the same again. Birth and rebirth bring about a newness that conformity cannot control.

Weaving

• web-caught creatures inevitable decay - tie into Basi's circumstances
• woven tapestries wear down over time - thread bare
• *stretch alert* stories becoming unrecognizable through generations
• lies and manipulation causing irreparable decay of trust
• *checks notes* ah... uhm... decay of...sutures. welp, someone's having a bad night...

Magic vs Technology

• decay of skillsets
• downward spiral of abilities
• use of magic/technology for steady, persistent destruction

Mise en place
Desk? Organized.
Notebooks? Acquired.
Water? Acquired.
Writing mugs? Gathered.
Paperwork? Organized enough.
Pens? Sufficient.
Dice? Accessible.
Goals? Discussed.

Homepage
This one is a little bit like pulling teeth for me. I'm going to do it but, oh boy, are my little brain gremlins gremlining! Added link to SC Prep Article
Rewrite hook
Make it Pretty

Author Profile & Pillar Articles
Here, I'm getting fewer brain gremlins but I know that I don't have time to finish up all of this to the level I'd like by June 29th. That said, I will make a valiant effort. Regardless, it had better be done my WorldEmber. I will not miss that again. Review Author Profile
Write a World Introduction
Clean up Priscilla's Potent Pastries
Flesh out Spirit Festival
Review Mark of the Survivor
Review Louvenia Draegan
Review Heart of Asma
Review Borealis Cat

Random Reminders

Hashtags for Community Publication

sc24, summercamp

Treat this challenge as a chance to surprise yourself.

Bird's Eye View

• Main meta
• Meta article
• Remodeling Tarantellia

Random To Do's
Fix Table CSS

Main Body

Header Hover

Odd Row Background

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Goals and Things
Copper Badge (8 prompts)
Silver Badge (16 prompts)
Gold Badge (24 prompts)
Diamond Badge (32 prompts)
ALL OF DE PROMPTS (om nom nom nom)
Improve Writing Speed
Keep WA Notifications below 1,000
Post WA Journal Updates every Friday with Summer Camp Progress
Notify Followers of Articles that I love

Article Release Plan
Hit Word Count Goal
Quick Check for Spelling & Grammatical Errors
Cover Image
Double Check Article Format
Put in Categories
Add Tags
Make Articles: Published & Public
Submit to Summer Camp!! ╰( ^o^)╮