#FFxivWrite2017 recap

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FFxivWrite2017 Week 1 Recap

Hey, writers! Week 1 of the FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge is complete and I was just astounded by how many people participated, holy cow!

758 entries were submitted for week 1!

Because I love numbers and data, I whipped up a quick chart for y’all depicting a prompt entry break down:

Because so many people are participating, I’ve decided to up the participation prize! Because you all deserve good things.

More Participation Prizes!

Originally, I was planning on drawing a single winner (via random number generator) for the whole 30 days who would win a stylized black & white drawing of a scene from one of their entries.

I will still do that! But, I will also draw one name at the end of each week, for just that week’s participants, who will win a stylized black & white portrait of one of the original characters that they wrote for in their entries!

Week one′s winner will be announced soon!

It’s not too late to join the project!

Week 2 is underway, and you’re invited to write about your original FFxiv characters!

More info about the FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge can be found here

All Prompts released so far can be found here

All entries submitted so far can be found under the #FFxivWrite2017 tag

Don’t be discouraged! <3

Remember, there are no length or skill requirements. Songs, poems, stories – anything in written form is welcome! This challenge is made for you in an effort to give you a chance to brush off the ‘ol writing chops and have some fun!

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FFXIVWrite2020 Master List!

[ Gosh, this has been such a trip! It definitely pushed me to get out of that perfection mindset - as a lot of these pieces, I am definitely not that proud of lol. But to share all this l o r e with people - and to read all of yours! (Those master lists are coming in handy!)  I won’t be changing any of the text in my stories, but I will be editing them slowly to add screenshots to them; and to start putting them under cuts with what characters and settings/timelines they take place - just in case anyone’s looking for something more specific before scrolling through long stories on my blog. Tags are also gonna be cleaned up a bit. I’m going to make a recap post about my favorites / least favorites, because hhhhh I got some w o r d s about some of these prompts lol

Here is the tag for all of my FFXIVWrite2020 works! Here is the tag for all of my FFXIVWrite2019 works! Here is the tag for the very few of my FFXIVWrite2017 works! Life got in the way 2017 and 2018, but I’m so glad to be back and to join in the FFXIVWrite Community again! It’s incredibly interesting to see what differences there were each year!

Underneath the cut will be all of the 2020 works in order! And as requested, a tag for @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ for the master list! ]

Prompt #1 - Crux (Jadienne Corbeau) [ Content Warnings: Mentions / Implications of adultery ]

Prompt #2 - Sway (Raramlah Ramlah) [ Content Warnings: Death and grief due to loss ]

Prompt #3 - Muster (Valere Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #4 - Clinch (Kokhjin Qalli) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #5 - Matter of Fact (Sabeloux Boucher, Orpheux Boucher) [ Content Warnings: Heated arguing / None! ]

Prompt #6 - Extra Credit (Berenger Allard) [ Content Warnings: Mugging, murder, detailed death ]

Prompt #7 - Nonagenarian (Solaire Rosé) [ Content Warnings: Implications of familial abuse ]

Prompt #8 - Clamor (Honorie Fauvier) [ Content Warnings: Implications of death ]

Prompt #9 - Lush (Gwenael Corbeau, Jadeinne Corbeau) [ Content Warnings: Mentions of vomiting (no details), implications of drugs and alcohol ]

Prompt #10 - Avail (Genevier Rafale) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #11 - Ultracrepidarian (Amosis) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #12 - Tooth and Nail (Raramlah Ramlah) [ Content Warnings: Graphic death and blood, allusions to suicide ]

Prompt #13 - Extra Credit (Caromont Allard) [ Content Warnings: Explicit physical and emotional, familial, abuse; implications of trauma ]

Prompt #14 - Part (Valere Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: Minor body horror ]

Prompt #15 - Ache (Maximiloix Voilinaut, Lothaire Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: None! ] {WoL!AU}

Prompt #16 - Lucubration (Camilla Voilinaut, Lothaire Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #17 - Fade (Mayve McRae) [ Content Warnings: Implications of war and trauma, grief, death, graphic injury, minor body horror ]

Prompt #18 - Panglossian - Make Up 9/27 (Liliah’to Zhwan) [ Content Warnings: Playful mentions of kidnapping ]

Prompt #19 - Where the Heart Is - Make Up 9/20 (Danny Harold) [ Content Warnings: implications of death/murder, non-graphic injury/blood, suffocation, vomiting/Hanahaki ]

Prompt #20 - Extra Credit (Lothaire Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: Implications of gore/blood and trauma, death ]

Prompt #21 - Foibles (Maximiloix Voilinaut, Caromont Allard) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #22 - Argy-Bargy (Caromont Allard, Solaire Rosé) [ Content Warnings: Implications of arranged marriage ]

Prompt #23 - Shuffle (Mao-Shirr) [ Content Warnings: Gambling, inappropriate commenting to appearances ]

Prompt #24 - Beam (Kokhjin Qalli) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #25 - Wish (Maximiloix Voilinaut, Lothaire Voilinaut, Honorie Fauvier, Caromont Allard) [ Content Warnings: Implications of regret and grief ]

Prompt #26 - When Pigs Fly (Danny Harold) [ Content Warnings: Bullying, death threats ] {Part 1 of Learning to Love}

Prompt #27 - Extra Credit (Danny Harold) [ Content Warnings: Violence, death, graphic injury ] {Part 2 of Learning to Love}

Prompt #28 - Irenic (Danny Harold) [ Content Warnings: Mentions of death, grief, implications of abuse ] {Part 3 of Learning to Love}

Prompt #29 - Paternal (Lothaire Voilinaut, Caromont Allard) [ Content Warnings: None! ]

Prompt #30 - Splinter (Danny Harold, Maximiloix Voilinaut) [ Content Warnings: Purposeful, non-serious, injury ]

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FFxivWrite2017 Week 4 Recap

Hey, writers! This week’s recap is a few days late so that I could give people whose entries I missed a chance to send me the links and have them counted in the breakdown. So thank you for your patience!

Week 4 of the FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge has concluded, and with that we are finished! Amazing work, everyone!! I am so impressed!

437 entries were submitted for week 4!

Including 24 Thanksgiving Day make-up entries.

7 Artists have volunteered to add to the Participation Prize at the FFxivWrite2017 project’s conclusion

That’s right! The Participation Prize has gone from 1 single prize winner at the end, to 1 weekly prize winner and 7 prize winners at the end!

If you are an artist in the FFxiv community who would like to offer your skills to one lucky drawing winner at the end, shoot me a message and let me know! There is absolutely no pressure, of course. Art prizes can be simple as the point of this project is to all write together – not to get cool art. ^_^ Fancy screenshot edits count as prizes, too!

WEEK 4: weekly participation prize winner is @smokespun

Congratulations, friend! @smokespun wrote a total of 8 entries during week 4 (since the last week had an extra day) and was randomly selected from all those who participated for that week. They will receive a stylized black & white portrait drawn by yours truly!

More information about the participation prize drawings can be found here

Final participation prize winners will be drawn this week

Stay tuned for a list of lucky winners – one of which could be you!

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FFxivWrite2017 Participation Prize Winners!

Sorry for the delay, friends! Here are the participation prize winners for 2017′s FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge! All winners were selected randomly via a random number generator.

Grand Participation Prize winners:

These winners will receive a black & white illustrated piece (or a full color screenshot edit) from one of the 7 artists who volunteered their talents for the final prizes!

@the-hitless-swordsman​

@taracelica​

@aeveriedreams​

@housealderscorn​

@adeya-evenar​

@jancisstuff​

@yokasaris​

Weekly Participation Prize winners:

These four were announced in each of the weekly recap posts. They will each receive a stylized black & white portrait of their character illustrated by yours truly!

@rprambles

@emilyplaysgames

@ffxiv-swarm

@smokespun

CONGRATULATIONS to our winners! The artists will be in contact with you soon if they haven’t reached out to you already. Some of you will begin to see your art pieces posted as early as this week!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated! I’ll follow up with a post about upcoming challenges for 2018 soon!

Happy holidays! <3