WorldEmber 2025 Pledge

"The last year I took an opportunity to write about a setting other than Linebound during WorldEmber was 2022 but the time has come once more."

— Paul Norris

A New World

The Goal

The Bingo

• Review or collect your writing inspirations: I have filled out the Talvorn meta!
• Refresh your author page for new readers: It has been a long time since I set up my author page so now it is just a little more up-to-date!
• Create a moodboard for your world: Picture some rocks and simple finger paintings, images of spring and animals, and a campfire.
• Review or set up your world home page: Got some simple text one there and am planning the world logo image.
• Review your category tree: There is now a category tree!
• Tidy up your writing space: Nice and clean and usable.
• Define the scope of your WorldEmber: The goal is to create the primer article and begin to define the location and the peoples of the Greatvalley.
• Review your world primer article: New world. Stub article created, basically a free space.
• Find an accountability buddy: Done!
• Get some feedback: Out there and awaiting feedback.
• Finish all your unfinished articles: Since there are currently no articles on Talvorn, this is a free space.
• Read a book: I have been reading Kindred: Neanderthal Love, Life, Death and Art as research for this setting.
• Free Space!: "Everybody gets one."
• Prepare visual elements: Not much but at least there is a custom header for the articles to default to.
• Make a list of stubs to expand: These stubs are all new and will be the first articles of the setting!
• Plan your worldbuilding playlist: I now have over fifteen hours of - mostly - choral music ready to inspire Talvorn with the human voice.
• Make a list of articles to write: In lieu of a list, I have simply created the first stubs in Talvorn to serve as a jumping off point.
• Plan your writing schedule: This is an incredibly important one to do in order to maximize success this December. I will have to write after work - and after a shower - but before I choose to do something else; I started playing Expedition 33 this month and that has murdered productivity on more than one day. On days off, writing should happen in the morning and preferably again in the afternoon or evening.
• What are the people in your world like?: The people of Talvorn are tough, they have survived in spite of the environment, not because of it. The clans may have disagreements from time to time but as individuals and communities they work together to ensure mutual survival. Their beliefs are centered on animals, on seasons, and on other things incredibly important to their survival; things of the world.
• Do some pre-writing research: I have been watching videos about the creation of stone tools and reading a book about the paleolithic period.
• Re-read your core articles: As there are no articles, I have instead reviewed the original brainstorming and notes for this new setting.
• Join the community Already there!
• Review your world's visual appearance: There is still a long way to go with the Talvorn CSS but there is a new background image, the search bar has been altered, and the fonts have changed.
• Go for a walk: I have gotten out for a couple little runs this month instead of my usual bike rides.
• What adjectives describe your world?: Wild, cold, wet, dynamic, changing, primitive, dangerous, big, growing, savage, hostile, adventurous, fantastic, animalistic, and vast.