Kriltch's SC24 Pledge

Wow, it's already been a year since the last one? Guess it's time to come out of my cave and flesh out all the ideas I've been accumulating. I had so much fun last year getting to flesh out ideas I've had for a long time (and some, admittedly, the day I wrote them), I'm back to do it again.

I'm also really excited to see ideas of people new to WA. It seems every year there are more and more wacky and wonderful creatives on the platform, I can't wait to see what everyone has in store.

Assignment 1: Change

Changes, well, that's an aspect of life itself, is it not? Before I get too philosophical, let me get theoretical with the many worlds theory. Or, in my world, the natural law of time where every eventuality is a stream life takes on the physical world. What I'm trying to say is that my world is ripe with change and a change that doesn't necessarily have to have continuity with anything. My world has always been and will always be something I have for fun and for self-fulfillment. I guess that's sort of a foundational point. As for genre, just fantasy, not much too it. And for the theme, well, based on my point before, there really isn't a theme to the would. You can find horror, whimsey, drama, mystery, action, anything really. So this "change" people talk about is just a part of life and will show up everywhere.

Assignment 2: Set a Goal

40 articles? Easy. That's what I tell myself, anyways. In truth, it wasn't that easy last year. In fact, I submitted the last article 30 minutes before SC23 was over! But, I know I'm fully capable of completing 40 articles, I have all the ideas, I just need the motivation. Unless life walks up and demands attention, I should be fully ready to do this. Last year, there was a small group of Dewy Diamonds where our goal was to get diamond, but to not burn ourselves out attempting. I'll follow this same mentality and if I don't get diamond, then I have however many more articles moved from mind to media.

Assignment 3: Organize

Done and already done. I love to organize, and I've been doing so since joining WA. Back before we had fancy categories, I would make dedicated articles that list related content, like Creatures and Modern Building. A little bit ago, I updated everything using the categories feature. There might be a few stragglers here and there, but most things should be stowed away in their proper place. What I haven't updated to using is tags. I'm pretty comfortable with how things navigate, but I'll give the tagging system a try during this event to see if I want it applied to older stuff.

Assignment 4: Update

Introduction to Kald is the article anyone should start with when reading my world. It's not meant to be a meta (though it does include some metatextual info about me), it's more of a springboard to launch people into my world. I made it way back in the day (2018 as one of my first articles) and has been my first (and only) featured article on WA. I rarely update it as I feel it has all the information I want to put in it... in it. However, I do feel it could use with a visual uplift, probably at least a few quotes from The Witch of Knowledge or Grandmother Wayfarer to add some flair. By the time you're reading this, it may have already gotten its face lift.

Assignment 1: Refuge

Most people, at one point or another in their lives, encounter a need to move from one "place" to another due to a change. So refugees can be as wide as literally moving due to destruction to changing what way you walk to work due to construction. Either way, you are a "refuge" from the norm. This means this theme can really, like change, apply to nearly any body of work. My world, being a mish-mash of ideas that coalesce into a greater whole, will be plenty open to all kinds of refugees and their stories. The first area that comes to mind is the conflict in Modyr that spawned characters like Jassen & Fa'oon that will have countless refugees in the most basic sense. Then again, I could go with a new idea that's been stirring where people are refugees in their minds, taking to dreams to escape monotony, horrors, and other terrors that the waking world brings. Queue the blatant real-world analogies.

Assignment 2: Accountability

Accountability? Easy. My chapter, Bowls of the Forge, will again be my partners in crime? world building. We will lift eachother up and encourage whatever everyone's goals are. Not everyone will join, of course, but I know I can count on their inspiration to keep me going.

But there's also WA in general. The excitement oozing from the site and discord will be plenty to keep me motivated. And then there's always the competitive nature, a striving to prove that I can, even if I know I can and have done it before.

Assignment 3: Style

One aspect of writing for my world is that I love to experiment with writing style. Summer camp has been one of my favorite events to just write whatever and do fun things with the writing. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Case in point is last summer camp where some articles, like Daich'chrain and Druid's Knoll, have obvious (the former) and not-so-obvious (the latter) style experiments; Druid's knoll was a test to try outlining a story when I'm normally a pantser. I do know my articles would be greatly improved with pictures, but if I don't make them, I tend to not like using images I find online, they lack consistency. Drake has my artwork, but I don't draw enough for all my writing. Gheforis is an example of using other's works, and It just doesn't quite fit the wholistic vibe I'm going for. So maybe I'll start up drawing again for better styles, but I won't hold myself to it.

Assignment 4: CSS

I do not plan to update my CSS. Since it's initial implementation since I joined WA, I've quite liked how it's looked. I have had a few minor changes over the years, the most recent adding a rainbow-oily overlay to the background to add more of the whimsical, ethereal, and (for lack of a better word) flow-ey feel to the world. And sure, there are some buttons and icons here and there that could use an uplift, but I will attend to them when the interest strikes me. What I'm trying to get at is that I already don't update the CSS, so I'm highly doubtful it will get in the way of writing for SC.