Summer Camp 2024
Iiiiiiiiiit's Summer Camp!
Summer Camp is almost upon us once more. Much like last year, we will have all 31 days of July to work through 32 prompts. Also much like last year, we will have an additional 8 wildcard prompts, in case we get stuck on some of the other prompts, or we just want the extra challenge.
Here's a link to Labyrithis.
Like last year, I aim to complete at least copper this year. I want to aim higher, but like last year I'm in work for most of July, so copper is a good realistic goal.
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All entries are displayed in order of completion.
Week 1: Change
Change is the ultimate catalyst of stories. Change is the driver of conflict, as the new and dynamic clashes with the old and stagnant. Discovery drives change, new technologies drive change, and new personalities drive change. But what of the inverse? What remains unchanged even while the world changes around it? And how does that itself catalyze change? Labyrithis is a setting where stagnancy and change both exist. A major change occurred that forever shaped the world, but that was a long time ago. How has the world reacted to those changes, and how has it settled down since then? At the same time, a major conflict has been on-going for over a century, but while the characters involved has changed, and front lines shift around, the war itself has remained more or less stagnant. What could cause that to change?Week 2: Refuge
When the world changes around you, what are your refuges? If it is a place, where are they? If it is a person or a pet, who are they? If it is a faith, what are the beliefs? And how do your refuges change as you and the world around you both change? And what happens when that refuge is gone?Week 3: Belief
Belief is one of those themes that, much like Change in week 1, is one of the major catalysts of story telling. Beliefs underpin a character's goals, motivations, and allegiances. Belief encompasses the fields of cults and religions, of folk tales and urban legends, of political affiliations and cultural movements. Belief can change over time as the world changes, but belief can also become codified and static. Belief can be a refuge from change, but what if that belief is threatened?
Summer Camp Camp Chill Badge
Nnie's Camp Chill Guidelines
- Remember the prompts are suggestions, not requirements.
- Write what you're passionate about, leave what you aren't.
- Relax when you feel tired.
- Fight off any pesky brain-squitos trying to make you doubt your work.
- Don't abandon your non-summercamp goals! Write that article you're itching to write, even if it doesn't fit any prompts.
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Week 4: Decay
Nothing is constant. Even as things grow and multiply, they are doomed to one day wither and dwindle away. People become frail from age and wasting illnesses. Wood rots and stone crumbles, the structures they are built with collapsing until little remains. Empires fall apart into their constituent states. Religions and ideas perish with the people who hold them, leaving behind only memories in a physical form that themselves degrade over time. Decay is a bringer of change. As things perish they create a void into which new things grow. The old is fading away. What will come after?All entries are displayed in order of completion.
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Looks like you're done just in time - and I like your thoughts on the themes. Hope you're having an awesome summercamp!
Thank you! Have a great Summer Camp too!