Worldember 2025 Prep

As we all know by now, I don’t actually write a lot, and I haven’t really done since Summercamp 2024. My life has been a weird molasses of events which really put me off any long-term sustainable writing that i feel happy enough with to put on World Anvil; there’s been writing but it's been on turn-by-turn forum stuff, wikipedia editing, conlanging, poetry and short bursts of worldbuilding in my notes. I don’t know if it is burnout, my life is busy and it keeps on trucking, but we live with the beast. However, I am - after completely blowing off SC 2025 - going to attempt to write something for Worldember.

General Goals

10K words is the goal as ever. I say this every year, that I will finally do it on a structured timeline where I write consistently during December rather than a dash on the last 3 days and I never learn. So, this year I am not going to try and be all high and lofty about my goals: I am a massive procrastinator who works well under massive amounts of self-induced stress. It is also the cause of why I don’t write much, I am aware.   I, after thinking it was this month of November, will be doing Lexember in the background. I reckon a couple of the prompts, if it's not another year based on language as a concept rather than theme, will somehow end up as articles. Otherwise known as I will be conlanging and you, dear reader, cannot stop me. (this section was written earlier this month and the theme is materials - as someone who is a cultural worldbuilder this might be a jumping off spot but not 100% sure it will be what I write about)

Scope

I will be chipping away at the Asfye, as is my usual remit. I am surprisingly set on staying with the Asfye which is actually rather bizarre considering my previous culture-hopping. In order to try and coax out the muse that actually let me write prior to the start of this year, I have decided to stick to what I genuinely enjoy worldbuilding and writing about: conlangs and Asfye religion/traditions. I, for once, have a list! AND A PLAN! Really, it’s rather strange how this is all turning out. Be proud of me if you want, even though they are not exactly groundbreaking

The Great List

Here are some articles I know I want to try and write as a starting off point  

rewrite the Introduction to the Asfye

Monk

Asfye Naming

Asfye Weddings (if you've stuck around, you'll know I rather like weddings)

Community

I've been in the WA discord for a while but I've been rather inactive except to poke stuff in fictional languages, my chapter or to say hi in the worldember chat. I want to get back to chatting there more frequently but considering my lack of, well, writing and my mental health nosedive, I feel very intimidated to go back again. If you can't tell by now, I am a miserable bitch, and that feeling tends to be a mismatch with a very positive environment like the WA discord; I feel like an asshole in there and then I feel guilty about it which is my usual guilt death spiral.