It's time for another Summer Camp! It's one of the most excited events and I always love to join. I'd like to apologize for the lack of contents for the past weeks. I take too much time to write my first interactive story and rework my main timeline.
Since I first joined I've been doing Summer Camp to get all type of Summer Camp badges. Despite I slipped the second year, I managed to keep back on track. It was messy to be fair, with lot of obsecles and setbacks, but it's fun journey all along, and now here I am.
Like most of the time, I will not create new worlds, but instead hints them in some ways. I want to focus on my existing, active worlds as usual:
Without further ado, let's see what homeworks look like!
HOMEWORK
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WEEK 1: CHANGE
Change is something that all my worlds are revolving.
The main element of Terraloga is that the world ans story keep changing. It's some kind of live fiction where I change date in the world calendar. However, it has been stagnaged for years now. To Find The Fishy Menace is the latest stories in chronological order, but it's written two years ago during WorldEmber 2022. Most of the time I kept doing past events, so this Summer Camp I'm going to progress the story to the future. How much time would pass? Probably more than a decade. I hope that after Summer Camp, we'll finally focusing on the East Estisia.
I've decided that the Confederate States of Earth is seven thousands years old, even though I only have the early and civil war era, leaving the middle empty. I think I'll focus on elements based on my main character's daily life, which I believe it would bring me ideas how my galactic nation works. There can be home-planets, workplaces, and daily routines. These element about their lives before and after the plot kick in will sprout into much higher concepts that match my vision.
There is nothing much to do in The Exotic Program. I'd properly look into a story of Plot I and Plot II. Plot I is settling in the past, which is based on the first ever screenplay I've done.
Goal
My main goal is to achieve a COPPER badge. I won't have much freetime next month, so I'll focus on quality than quantity. It's a little but simple goal that I could reach them within a week. I want to make them good-looking, with good arts, formatting, and spelling.
I would be upset not getting DIAMOND for sure, but that's fine because I'll put it on stretch goals. I got it last time and it's a good-looking badge so why not?
Categories & Tags
The Categories is fine. It's from the largest to the smallest units, but to make sure readers don't get confused, I'll make them less repetitive. For example, there's a main Settlements on the homepage and individual Settlements for each countries.
Tags however, I want to make some dedication beforehead. As such, I've set up my tagging rules as follow:
Special Goal: If I can publish 500 articles, I'll add Index tags (A - Z, 1 - 9), alongside the glossary and a hugh articles overhaul.
Meta
I looked back through all my metas and figured out, it didn't need any changes.
WEEK 2: REFUGE
Every actions have reactions. Where the people go when everything changes?
This is tricky for Terraloga at first, but then I realize that the answer is simple. Let's write about the Irgs during the late Second Channel War! After the epic declaration, the Valonia Empire started stomping into the Iria Republic, and nothing can stop them, so what the civilians should do? Not only that, they also affect those in the battlefields. There's a plot called Take Down the Crystal Gunships where sailors must returns home while dealing with Valonian gunships that turned against them, with only limited ammos. Sound crazy, right?
Confederate States of Earth is in the period of galactic war. Whose nations suffer the most? What POV to focus? Back to the early day, the Earth people were forced to evaculate out of the Solar System. Where do they went? and what they do and live right now. This include the Terron Union, the largest nation that became the Major Six.
The people in The Exotic Program has changed after the collapse of the Candella Tower. In fact, most of my plots surrounds this tragic incident. Where do they go? What's their lives right now? Furthermore, there's elders who survived or witnessed the power of Solar Gun during their world war, which is out of my scole right now but look fun to do. It also include the rise of Candella Corp..
Accountability Buddies
I've joined World Anvil Discord and a lot of anvilties'. Catoblepon and Myth Cross for examples, it's my main place where I drafted, posted, and shared.
Styling
First of all, I'd made the change to Terra Layout, which is actually a Summer Camp homework back in 2021. Secondly, the article need more placeholder artworks. I love my Moth-holder so much, but it can't be used on anything. I have to draw these placeholders for:
Finally, I need to rework my homepages.
CSS Upgrades
I don't have any plans for this, especially Terraloga where I want to keep the default theme, but instead adding some interactive elements, like a white 90's computer case with gaming gears in it. The other worlds are fine - for now.
Because of this, I decide to use the full potential of my Grandmaster guild, and I hope I won't let this slipped, or I'll be like what you saw early this month - Everything turned back to dafault mode! Scaryyyy D:
WEEK 3: BELIEF
In the struggling, unfamillar places, Belief is the best tool to guide through.
Although Luumism is the main religion of Terraloga, it's only become prominent just in the recent history. Before Luum and Limm they worshipped Krin-Valonian deities, and that's what I'm going to do. It'd covering myths, legends, and relics. But first, I need to publish their protal - Krin-Valonian Pantheon.
I've some myth ideas for my 7 thousands year Confederate States of Earth in mind. It can be a general myth that well-known, or the local one that associated with one of them nations.
I have no idea for The Exotic Program. Maybe lores for my fellow cities or the entire country these are setting in, despite that this world narrative are at only one place.
Inspirations
I have my own Discord server to keep tracks of my worldbuilding but also gathering tips, and doodles. Other then that, I'm going to use the same inspiration boards I did years ago, with additional sources.
Image Gallery & Maps
Some illustrations I'd propbably made during my freetime before July.
Review My Old Self
Many things are still the same as before.
WEEK 4: DECAY
Decay can be both a consequence, and a cause.
I've been making about the decaying Empire of Kritus since I started Terraloga just to oppose the newer empire like Valonia which is the main character/faction. However, it became something that I would look more.
The decaying alliances, the arm races, and their internal desires on other factors lead to the downfall of the Confederate States of Earth, but how long it has happened or when it started is in debate.
In The Exotic Program, the mentality decay caused by technologies seem to be its main focus at the moment, but when I look into it, it turn out to be my main focus point a whole time.
Optimize My Environment
I'm busy for the past months but this July is going to be the busiest, so while working at daytime, I will dedicate whole night doing writing, alongside my ordinary drawing session.
Homepage Review
It's all mess. Like I say in Week 2 I'm going to update them.
Update My Intro & Author Page
It's always unready since the beginning but I'll look into it.
P.S. I'm adding easter eggs onto some puncuations, linking to some favorite songs & videos!
SUMMER CAMP 2023 PROGRESS
Copper
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Wildcard 1
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Silver
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Gold
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Diamond
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Wildcard 7
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Good luck with getting copper, I am cheering you on!
Explore Etrea
Thank you! I'll try my best :D
Come visits Terraloga and the story of a fictional Ancient Roman trying to rule the world.