Summer Camp 2025
Supporting and submitted articles for Summer Camp 2025
Find my prep and reading articles, as well as my submitted articles for Summer Camp 2025 here
Supporting articles
Submitted articles
A myth about a legendary food or drink
This has been the most popular article I've ever written. I find this very ironic as in recent life, I quit my corporate job and went freelance instead as a graphic designer, and to tide me over, I started up a coffee shop and started selling my own cake recipes. Selling cake IRL has been very successful for me, but freelancing not quite so, and in a world where I've never written anything or even considered food before... of course, my article on cake is successful. I took the message from the universe and am now expanding my cake business.
Write what you know... or know what you write?
A substance known for its unique smell
I love it when you're looking at a prompt and you're thinking... I haven't got the foggiest idea, and suddenly your hands start writing, and in an hour, you've written something that you're super pleased with. Now I have an item that is always just going to be in the background: that smell, those cans... and that judgemental face of Mrs Rightly, because not conforming is wrong.
Spontaneity leads to creativity
A profession related to spirituality or philosophy
This was an article that's long been on my list to write. Its supporting articles are unfortunately still in the long WIP folder, as I rewrite them over and over again, and question everything about them, myself and my efforts in general. I think I found that was one of the most helpful things about summercamp: that I just had to write, I had to get it down, and in that I answered lots of questions, I was spontaneous, and I managed to actually get somewhere.
Take the leap and just write
A charity dedicated to helping those in need
This is one of those subjects that I had known about for a while, and suddenly, there it was, the answer, because while I knew not all Magi were bad, I certainly had presented all Magi indifferent to the suffering of others, and that wasn't good either. And so I created a sort of half-way point, a group for people who think they're doing good by making sure others are being legally subjected to their suffering.
Consider both side of an argument
A species that feeds through a symbiotic relationship
Nightwalkers are a major important part of my story. Like major. So why has it taken me 3 years to write an article on them? I wish I knew. Up to this point, my understanding of their motivations has always been conflicting, especially as I knew always that there were two tribes, and one is 'good' and one is 'evil' which technically in my book made no sense as nothing is ever so black and white. It was also their relationship with 'pets' that was throwing me off, so when this prompt came up, I saw an opportunity to resolve.
The best way to resolve is just to write it down
An organization rooted in controversial principles
The terrorist group of the Ananans has had about thirty names over the last few years. Again, they were important, but in my brain they also were very abstract and scattered, and I could never pin down what their actual goal was. Freedom? Isolation? Inclusion? Exclusion? They all worked at some point in the novel, and so I just leant into that. They have no singular motivation or driving force. Their chaos is both their success and downfall.
Be honest, and lean into those problems
The place of origin of a people in your world
I knew when I saw this prompt come up that it was going to be about the isle of Midden, as that is the centre point for all life. Never did I think I was also going to create another conflicting religion off the back of it. Midden was always based on the middle east: a holy land of constant war in one form or another. But originally I was going for just territorial, as I didn't want to be too on the nose... and then I remembered I was writing satire.
Embrace the rabbit hole this journey can lead you on
A war that resulted in the creation of something new
When I saw this prompt, I thought that's a shame I've already written an article on that. Maybe there's another conflict I can use. (Look through her article list...) Oh seems I dreamt about writing that one instead. I'll be honest, this isn't the article of my dreams. It has all the information, but I think the layout is to be desired. So come September, I'm going to look at making it a bit snazzier.
The base is solid, just needs more
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