SC26 - Prep

Summer Camp is about to start, so let's do the prep work. I will turn 40 during SC, so I refuse to call it homework ... This article will be updated over the next weeks, so if you'd like to follow my progress, just follow this hub world. So let's dive into the actual prep work now. If you want, you can directly jump to the new content.

Step 1: Pledge your goal!

As usual, I am not committing myself to more than the minimum of copper. I was barely able to achieve it in 2024, as I normally need a lot of time to ponder on ideas before I can write an article that is not total BS. And I really don’t like to publish unfinished articles as well. Getting the art done, styling the articles … that takes almost as much time as writing them for me, so I basically need the time for 16 articles. So eight it is and hopefully many prompts will be to my liking during the first weeks.

At the moment I have five worlds. For SC I will write in four of them. Mirintha, Meowrintha, Nova Gaia, and Nebelfels. During WE I found that Camp Cozy didn’t really is what people want to read, so I will not write anything for it.

We are supposed to think about manifestations of love in our worlds. So I was starting to think about the four worlds I'd like to write for and how love is manifesting there. This is what I came up with (so far):

Mirintha

Everything that has to do with love also has to do with Kära, goddess of love. So for Mirintha I could write about her priesthood, a holiday, a rite, or a tempel. Those are already four out of eight possible prompts, which is a solid base. In case none of those templates is part of the first wave, I still have three worlds to choose from.

Nova Gaia

I have no clue how to cover this topic for my sci-fi world. I could probably come up with something for the indigenous population. As I have not thought about that a lot though, I would most likely cost me too much time to get anything solid done, so Nova Gaia is the least likely world to write anything about this topic. At least for now.

Meowrintha

In my cat-country I could basically do with love what ever I want. Most likely would be a holiday that the cute little cats celebrate. But there is also no religion so far, so maybe I can come up with something related to a deity. And then obviously is the love for all sorts of food or activity that our feline friends might have.

Nebelfels

Obviously there is the love for Quidditch. Then there (hopefully) is the love for the house a student has been assigned to. I am also thinking of the love for a pet or some local food. Maybe a teachers passion for what he or she is teaching. So here I am also rather free in what I could write about, as long as I don't stick to the prompt to literal.

Next to the hopscotch. I thought I try hard mode... and then rolled a ONE, I swear! So updating the homepage and primer it is. And as Nebelfels currently has no finished homepage and certainly no primer article, this is a perfect fit.

When I wrote the primer for Nebelfels, I thought about how I should tackle this. Nebelfels is a Wizarding World fan fiction, meaning most people will already know the basics of the setting, and therfore, the article is rather short. But I really couldn't think of much to put in there, without spoiling everything. The focus currently is on the differences and similarities between Hogwarts and my own world. Feel free to give feedback on it, if there is anything I should add to it.

And then I updated the world home page a little bit. I added said primer article to it and also the first map. I am not sure on how exactly I want to set up the home page, so I might add a few more things in it before June ends. But for now, it shows at least the most important information.

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

The final thing I did for SC is setting up an article to summarize the whole event. There I will write down how everything went, what I thought about the prompts and themes, and which articles I did write for which world. I am already eager to see if I can divide them evenly across all four worlds or if one of them will have more articles then the rest. Hopefully, I can write two per world, but I would also be fine with eight in just one world. As long as I can achieve to write eight good articles, including art work, I will be happy.