World Ember 2025
Preparation
WorldEmber Prep 2025 Instructions
Step 1: Pledge
Writing Goal
For December 2025, I pledge to write 10,000 words of worldbuilding on Ruartei. I make this promise to myself, my readers, my fans and the world which is made better by my creative spirit.
—Joella Kay
Area of Focus
This year, I'm planning to focus on Ruartei with special emphasis on the background that I need for the second draft of my first book.
This is the world of my (WIP) Arke Portal and (future) Arke Station books.
Create or Update Your Meta
For Mirielle, I actually created an initial, bare bones, meta to help remind me that it's a world to have fun and yet give me some loose guidelines and provide a bit of structure. At the moment, I'm not ready, nor have the time, to flesh it out further. But if I think of anything during WorldEmber, I will add it at that time (despite it not counting toward my WorldEmber goal).
Step 2: Bingo
I didn't find a row or column that contained the items I had time/inclination to do, so I just picked 5 of them.
Scope for World Ember
I've given myself a lot of latitude on what to write about, but I am limiting it to the things I need to know now to revise my current draft. I don't want to restrict it too much because I may wander into productive areas, but I also want to get a bunch of background settled so I can focus on the book's plot changes and actual writing.
Pre-writing Research
For the last 2-3 months, I worked on and finally finished (as much as I need, anyway), a program that simulated lineage of the House of Livy, an important dynasty in Ruartei with special emphasis on the nonaLivy branch, which is the main dynasty in the Arke Portal books. Along with the simulation, I created the nonaLivy family tree at various stages to show their progression and chart the major dates for important events.
In the last 2-3 weeks, I gone back over my notes on my dimensions, with the intent to refine and nail down the terminology, history/timeline, and beings that appear or affect the Arke Portal story.
Review Category Tree
My category tree is under current revision. I've made notes on the changes I want and will create/revise categories (based on those notes) as I write the articles. A complete overhaul will have to wait until next year.
Re-read Core Articles
I've been re-reading the world meta and core articles (as well as my notes) to see what I'm missing, need to revise, and to refresh my mind on what I've already decided.
Community
I'm part of the Discord community and will be participating in the WorldEmber channel.
Status
Articles
Stubs
Note: you can't see these. This is my list of possible articles (which are currently private).
That lineage simulation sounds intense. Congrats on getting that done, and best of luck reaching 10k!
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Thanks a lot! Good luck to you, too.