Week One
Set a word goal and your area of focus
This year I'm not very sure I'd have time to write a lot, so my initial goal will be 10.000 words but I'd like to write many more . Last year I wrote 20.019 words, a quite remarkable feat for me, and I'm very proud of it!. I also won the best military unit award!! the first category I won since I joined Worldanvil almost 5 years ago!, and that was an awesome experience!.
So this year, if possible, I want to reach the same amount of words or even surpass it, I think with the ideas I've in mind, I'm sure I can write tons of words!.
I start to believe, due to my previous experiences, that unlike other challenges like SummerCamp, during WorldEmber because you can't write whatever you want without any prompts, words and ideas are not a problem during this challenge!.
Choose your area of focus
So, my first idea for WE was to focus on one continent alone. Last WorldEmber I focused on the continent of Teria, and my first idea for this year was to focus on the continent of Karia. But, lately, I came up with many article ideas that are related to both continents so this year I'll work on both continents (their cultures, traditions, geography... etc). These are some of the article ideas I've in mind:
So my ideas for articles are these ones at the moment (divided by continents)
Western Continent (Teria)
Year of the 6 emperors ( military conflict)
Kigdom of the Snow Elves (organization)
Legionaries (military formation)
Mass spectacles in Blati (tradition?)
Radali peoples (ethnicity)
Steam transport (vehicle)
The Hand of God (geography)
Eastern Continent (Karia)
The Protectore of the East (organization)
Sun elves (ethnicity)
Sun elf dialect (language)
Sandshapers (profession)
Harpy (species)
Harpy mating ritual? (tradition)
The Lotus Empire (organization)
I'm also very hyped for the drawings I'm planning to do for this year's WorldEmber ( hopefully I should have some of them done before the challenge begins). Some, I think, would be more difficult to draw than others, and thus they'd recquire more time to do them, but I'm sure that both you guys and me are going to enjoy these little additions to the articles, specially dealing with new species like the Harpies!. I'm looking forward to amaze you with my articles this year now that I can do a bit of CSS magic! :3.
I think the introduction is good, it gives an introduction of what Yeia is about, it sets the tone, is that the right expression? but some concepts such as the role of magic needs to be "updated". I don't know if I should add more categories to the homepage because I've the feeling that there are already a lot and if I add more the homepage might be a bit...saturated.
The map also needs an update since the dwarven realms in the present time are not yet represented on it (it might take). The same can be done for the some of the timelines that you see in the homepage. I need to keep working on them.
The primer also need to be updated, there are new races, ethnic groups and realms that need an spot in that introduction. I think I haven't finished redoing it so this is a perfect moment for redoing it!. The primer could also be a good place for showing more of my art and some of the articles I made during these months and years.
I'm not a CSS wizard, but a humble apprentice. In fact I've to thank a lot to my friends in the WA community for having taught me some tricks and CSS "spells" for making my world and my articles better. I'd like to continue with this trend of improving my knowledge and skills with CSS in order to make my world better. What I'm planning to do with CSS is to keep doing especific themes for each culture as I've been doing these months.
That looks like you got some clear plans - can't wait to read about all of those. Looking forward to see more of you during WorldEmber.