I am so beyond touched that Solaris was voted Best Body of Work for Worldember 2023! Thank you so much to everyone who voted!
It's wild to think that Solaris is about to wrap up its second year. What started with a dream of a war against the sun, is now the biggest project I've ever worked on! I've never experienced so much love and excitement for something I'm working on, and to think it would be with one of the genres I've been most scared to write!
Check out what Skye and I wrote for Worldember!
As for 2024, I'm hopeful this can be a year of new challenges and new horizons! I've set up a small hub for Solaris on Tumblr, and I want to continue being active on Bluesky. Come join me, and let's show the rest of the world what they've been missing out on!
#Worldember2023 #nniews #milestone
#Worldember2023
Today's dark & grim article - Introducing the Bone Wheels of Rose!
The Bone Wheels of Rose serve both as a spectacle and as a means of public execution. Read more here:
Also don't forget to follow the world of Vitallia here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/vitallia-meteor-tales
#worldember2023 #WorldEmber2023 #WorldEmber #worldember #fantasy #whatIamReading #Fantasy #anvilspace #holiday
Also don't forget to follow the world of Vitallia here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/vitallia-meteor-tales
#worldember2023 #WorldEmber2023 #WorldEmber #worldember #fantasy #whatIamReading #Fantasy #anvilspace #holiday
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SUMMONING THE FURRIES FOR A FINAL WORLDEMBER HURRAH. ETHNIS IS THE WORLD TO JOIN, EXPLORE, AND PLAY. #worldember2023
As #WorldEmber2023 reaches its close, it's time for to choose our favorites, and I can't just let that go by without shouting about a few of the articles I'm proud of.
This year I fleshed out the corners of Ethnis dedicated to body modding, especially regarding how furries and other anthro-identifying people exist in a transhumanist society. It's one thing to buy some new traits and organs, it's another to use those traits to not just extend who you are, but to self-actualize the creature which has always lurked in your mind and beneath your flesh.
These are the articles related to this topic.
If nothing else, I hope you enjoy reading. I look forward to seeing what characters you make ♥ — Jacklyn
- ★ Anthros are what you call Transmogs with high aspirations towards becoming beastly
- Wetware is all the squishy fun of sculpting your anatomy into something new
- Wetware Drivers will make your neck itch
- Soluma is a story about a very good dog
- ★ Psioware Drivers are the combination of Wetware and Soluma to create souls that work as wetware drivers
If nothing else, I hope you enjoy reading. I look forward to seeing what characters you make ♥ — Jacklyn
Canine Soluma by MidJourney
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When life gives you potatoes...
I've come to the realization that I am probably not going to have the time this month to write a lot, which means that a New Year's resolution article is seeming unlikely at this point.
However, to make up for that, I'm going to like and comment on as many articles as I can, especially because everyone put out so much quality writing during WorldEmber that NEEDS to be acknowledged.
And in case I haven't said it already, a wonderful new year for one and all. May 2024 be even more productive for you than 2023 was!
#WorldEmber2023
However, to make up for that, I'm going to like and comment on as many articles as I can, especially because everyone put out so much quality writing during WorldEmber that NEEDS to be acknowledged.
And in case I haven't said it already, a wonderful new year for one and all. May 2024 be even more productive for you than 2023 was!
#WorldEmber2023
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December Update + WorldEmber 2023: Wrap-Up!
I know, I know, I've been telling this not long ago. I was so excited when only the time I needed to publish and notify my last work, was seconds before midnight. So, once again, Happy New Year!
WorldEmber Wrapped Up
As you know, #worldember2023 is over, and I hope everyone have finish the goal! This year I managed to publish 14 articles with a total of, according to the main page, 11,939 words. Compare to 7,203 words last year with 11 entries, I'd say this year is a total success.
Due to my strategies, I have another 13 unfinished articles that I intended to finish according to my pledge back in November, but didn't make it on time. Meaning that I've written 24 articles, but over half was unused. I think I've to redo my workflow next time.
On the bright side, I've finished 2 plots - Quest for the Power Stone and Might of the Power Stone!. I was satisfied by these two plots, despite how rushed the latter was, since them and the Wrath of the Power Stone I did last WorldEmber, are the main world storyline of Terraloga during 2019-20. I finally completed the world's biggest goal, and I'm feeling better than ever!
You can find my full list of all finished articles on my main page, when I crossed the threshold of WorldEmber 2023!.
2023 Update
To be honest, it's one of the most chaotic years ever. I lost my friend, I lost my jobs twice, and I was about to lose my house to the bank within months. I'm completely lost, and if I don't do everything within the next months from now, I'll lose everything.
Nevertheless, there's a good side to the story. I've been through art communities, and I've been very happy. They were very supportive, I got new friends, and most of all I was able to do art commissions for them. I've found the way to make money, and if I continue to focus on those, I would solve this crisis in no time.
Have you face any crisis and how you solved them? If you're okay to tell, I'll listen.
January Plan
And with that folk, another success goal in my last year resolution. My mission to post monthly update for a whole 2023, has come to an end! I don't want to make it for another year no more. I've ruined my posting schedule every month, and I wish I'd never do it again. It's over....
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Or has it?
- Stub Out by Catoblepon
- Growing as an artist
- Making Youtube channel
I will show 2024's goals on my resolution article, along with a review of my last year to see what I've accomplished. Stay tuned!
Adchie
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Happy New Year and Worldember everyone!
I had a fun Worldember this year. I hit many but not all of my goals, but there is nothing to stop me from going to back to the unwritten topics later.
I am happy that I came in 9th place by word count. Last year I don't think I made the top ten and Nine is a lucky number in Scarterra.
#worldember2023
I am happy that I came in 9th place by word count. Last year I don't think I made the top ten and Nine is a lucky number in Scarterra.
#worldember2023
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WE Summary
Happy new year everyone!
I hope you all had fun with #WorldEmber2023 whether or not you were successful in writing as much as you wanted!
This month I managed:
to get the 25k words badge
to write an article for all templates apart from language, prose, and plot
to do a lot of art (even if the pen of my graphic tablet broke on the last day D: )
My favourite articles I wrote this month this month were:
Mineral vs organic magitech, an article that set the basis of my solarpunk magic/technology in this world, which then allowed me to write a lot of cool technologies like a variation of internet anchored in the mycelium of a fungi
A wall painting competition that you participate in with your neighbours and all the fierce rivalries around it!
A flyer from the city council trying to convince people to be nice with the local asshole bird!
A little kitten menace that has somehow found its way to the Dark Lord's manor.
A kidnapping announcement written by enemies to taunt my empire
Globally, I'm very satisfied with how far I've managed to advance my new world, with writing a lot about their solarpunk magitech and their culture :D
You can find the full list of the articles I wrote and a few words of presentation for each here: WorldEmber 2023.
Some of my new art:
Map of the Empire of Arboise by AmélieIS
Golden pricker by AmélieIS
Quanahr by AméileIS
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WorldEmber 2023 Wrap-Up
Congratulations to everyone who successfully completed their goals for #WorldEmber2023 and congratulations also go out to everyone who got any words at all written. You have more than you started December with!
I successfully earned my 25K badge and I'm very happy with the worldbuilding that I got done. I intentionally focused on stomping out stubs and intentionally avoided picking up a Dimi Mission. I have a lot of background characters and foundational information to get written down, and WorldEmber is definitely the perfect time and place for it.
I'm super proud of the articles that I wrote at the beginning of WE for the Can Opener and at the end for Sgt. Yahn Sunder. The Can Opener has been a villain in my campaigns for the past year, a herald of a much larger threat. Sgt. Yahn Sunder has been taking up more and more space in my head as a new POV character and I'm enjoying fleshing him out.
I'm going to start going through the articles I'm judging in the Ethnicity Special Category. As of now, there are only 98 entries! I'm looking forward to the lighter work load this time!
I'm gong to write my NYR article shortly and I'm looking for articles to read outside of my challenge category. What are your favorite articles that you've done this World Ember? Share them, I'd love to read them!
#WoWP #WorldEmber
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WorldEmber wrap-up, a secret and a Happy New Year!
WorldEmber
Finishing WorldEmber went almost smoothly, with almost meaning that obviously the entire website will be deleted and rolled back two days before the deadline. Or that things will start breaking. The universe has spoken!
That being said, I finished the competition with a large scale military conflict started by a boy now erased from history, and a short (3.6k+) WIP article about Breadmaking. All three will be given more love in the coming weeks, the breadmaking article in particular if I remember to make some good quality photos.
Final thoughts
Planning is definitely essential for me and with all the unexpected and attention-demanding stuff popping out throught the month I understand, more than ever the needs for it. It will be rough, but I'm hoping to introduce even more planning into my writing/life schedule. This week I'll be gathering my strenghts and resting and somewhere in the next week will be posting my plans for the January, traditionally including the Reading Challenge.
There is just one more shameful secret I have to share, but that will come after Worldember. It may be one of the reasons I struggled a bit with finding time for writing.
The little secret
And that was starting Duolingo a week before WorldEmber. With all fairness I did not think it anticipate it would stick so well. The plan was to learn Scottish Gaelic since the this WorldEmber was centered round a Celtic-like culture and Scottish Gaelic is my placenamer language of choice. After a month, though, after successfully finishing #worldember2023 and advancing to the Amethyst League I can sum it up the efforts to: Obh obh... Chan eil i cho dona ach mi gu math sgìth.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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WorldEmber 2023 - 25k reached!
At the beginning of WorldEmber, I decided to shoot for 10k words - I've had a daily goal of 300 words, and by upping that to 325 I was pretty sure I could make that happen. I'm happy to say that I made my goal early, and then continued on to reach a final total of 27,191 words across 108 articles. I also joined the new #ArticlesAnonymous chapter, and I am very thankful for all their support during this challenge and looking forward to our future endeavors as a chapter. Happy New Year to all!
#worldember2023
#worldember2023
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I wrote 32K Words in one month!
I honestly did not think i was going to write this much, as i had even hesitated to put my objective at 25K, worried i wouldn't be able to reach it. Well, it seems i blew past it. What a nice way to finish off the year!
Speaking of which: Happy new years 2024! May it be filled with inspiration and lots and lots of nice worldbuilding words.
#worldember2023
Speaking of which: Happy new years 2024! May it be filled with inspiration and lots and lots of nice worldbuilding words.
#worldember2023
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WorldEmber and Dimi Mission Complete
I've just posted the final settlement I wrote for my #DimiMission and my final article for #WorldEmber2023 in general. The latter is a prose piece I was challenged to write by SecondhandSamurai, CassieStoryweaver, and Janet Forbes after I noted a particularly catchy phrase during the October 7, 2023 World Anvil Twitch Stream. #worldember2023
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2023 Wrap-Up
Well, everyone. World Ember is drawing to a close as is 2023. Another year has gone by already. I don't know what the next year holds, but I'm sure it'll be full of as many ups and downs as this year.
I had a several goals for 2023, I'm not sure if I was able to accomplish any of them. (I forgot about them when February rolled around.) But there's always next year!
I had a blast this year being able to take part in the official and unofficial challenges. A special thanks to those who were willing to have unofficial challenges. (Maybe that's something I'll do this next year.)
Summer Camp and World Ember have been some of the most fun writing challenges I've done. I was able to expand a couple of my collaborative worlds during SC, and I started a new one! WE went very well. I accomplished my goal of 10K and I expanded my new world by a fair bit. There's still a lot that I need to work on, but I think I have a pretty solid foundation for it.
I'm still not 100% sure where to go next this new year, but I have a few ideas. (I hope you all look forward to them) Soon I'm hoping to expand each of my worlds and maybe publish my first manuscript! I don't know when, but it's somewhere in my schedule.
Before I go, I would like to say congratulations to all those who were able to accomplish their goals! And even those who didn't, I'm so happy and proud of you anyways! I hope this next year, brings so many more great writing memories!
Thanks to all who likes or reads or follows my work. Thank you so much! It means the world to me. Of course, a huge thanks to my collaborators, without their encouragement and advice I don't know where I'd be.
And thank you, to everyone who read this rather long and rambling post. Have a Happy New Year and Best Wishes to You in World Building!
#worldember2023
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Monster Hunting!
I think I can finally say this article is complete! Monster Hunting was the first article I submitted to WorldEmber, so I have spent some extra time making it all shiny and awesome. I hope you enjoy reading this, it was super fun to make! <3 Can't wait to check out other worlds in the New Year's Resolution's Challenge, a great portion of my entry will go towards showing off worlds that inspired me this WE!
#worldember2023 #worldember #articleshare #mochievements
(sorry for making two global posts and two notifications! My WiFi sabotaged me >:(
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Finished!
Wooo! Just finished all my text for WE and published the last article! I was supposed to draw a lot this month as well....but.....I started playing Baldur's Gate 3. So I didn't get my drawings done. XD I'll draw them later instead. :3...did some character designs for Dana at least. This image won't be in their article. XD; Those have to match, and this one doesn't match my other character article images. XD;;
Anyway, how is your WorldEmber going?
#worldember2023 #rekiorbitalspacestation
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#worldember2023 Item category complete! The Ga'Tharai Ring is ready to protect the Emperor's servants.
Ga'Tharai Ring
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#WorldEmber2023: A Lesson In Adaptability
They Don't Ask How, They Ask How Many!
As I am forever reminding my loyal Twitch.tv viewers, self care is urgent care. As the sun has faded, I have found myself reacting like the trees and shedding the small things to ensure I have the strength and energy to deal with the big things. I finally achieved the minimum 10,000 words necessary to conquer the WorldEmber challenge, even though I did not reach my start-of-event goal of 50K. To be honest, I let go of that pretty early in the month when it was clear that work pressure coupled with my seasonal depression would make such a goal just too much added strain.
Still, I believe in the old adage, "Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." And so, even though I knew I probably wouldn't achieve 50K, I still set myself the goal so that 'only' achieving 10K would feel like landing among the stars. I did this with the hope that any achievement would feel good at this point in the season.
I was right, this feels amazing!
I spent my efforts mostly in generic articles, exploring some of the people and events that I've been ignoring for a while, but that are proving to be absolutely critical to the functional plot of my novel. Just the rambling sorts of detail dumps that precede proper character developments. Here are all these random facts that I know, so that I can dig into the why behind them at a later time.
I also filled in the largest portion of an article I call "Shit Everyone Across Argentii Knows," so that I have a reference for this general hazy timeline of ages and ages of history. It's less relevant for the novel, but critical for organizing my thoughts and will become the outline for the primer that I'll be working on in the coming weeks.
Which brings me to a quick glance at the question...
What's Next?!
Well, in addition to continuing to prep for my new Worldbuilding Through the Tarot class that I'll be teaching at GenCon, I'm going to be spending some time revamping both my WA home page and my Patreon offerings. The former needs to be friendlier and more informative for new visitors, and the latter needs to be rewritten to incorporate the new content that I have planned for 2024.
I'm also planning to dig into my CSS and also explore some of the Grandmaster features I've yet to play with.
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WorldEmber
So I was going to try and finish #WorldEmber2023, however I have been having pretty bad mental health issues this month, so I have not been able to really work on articles as much as I wanted to. But I have been trying to take care of myself so that's the most important part. <3 I'm proud of what I did get down tho.
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New art for Malkora!
I don't think I've ever been able to say this during WorldEmber before, but Malkora has new art! Some excellent little sketches cooked up during this week's streams — our final final push stream is tomorrow at 11AM EST!
See them in action over in Malkora's brand new world primer, which I'm now declaring complete!! At least.. until after WE where I find things to change bahahaha!
#WorldEmber2023 #TheOwlworks #Malkora #WorldEmber #Art #WorldPrimer #AnviliteStreams
by Strixxline
by Strixxline
#WorldEmber2023 #TheOwlworks #Malkora #WorldEmber #Art #WorldPrimer #AnviliteStreams
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Worldember finished, 10k reached!
It was a journey, but one I managed after all. And I couldn't be more proud of each article I wrote for it. All have a purpose, all expand the world, fill gaps or introduce new aspects. Besides a few spellbook articles I even got my hands on a few geography articles, which make me especially happy to have now written down.
Kingsmaker grows ^^
#worldember2023
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Last W.E. entry for me
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I finally hit 10k words for #WorldEmber2023
As I properly started it just after Christmas, I didn't think I would manage it, to be honest. I've needed to do these articles for ages, because they relate to my ongoing #Fantasy manuscript Skirmishes and Schisms.
It's oddly Winter-themed, but not out of choice as such! It just happens to be that S&S is during Winter. Anyway, head to My WorldEmber Page if you want to find out more.
Hope you all have a good new year and all the best for those still finishing off #WorldEmber.
FJ Brodie
It's oddly Winter-themed, but not out of choice as such! It just happens to be that S&S is during Winter. Anyway, head to My WorldEmber Page if you want to find out more.
Hope you all have a good new year and all the best for those still finishing off #WorldEmber.