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FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2021

Welcome to YEAR 5 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

In 2017 we saw 2,451 written pieces ranging from three-lined haikus to multi-paged stories. 2018 saw 3,641 written pieces, and 2019 ramped up even more with 6,543 written pieces counted. And last year, in 2020, we had 8,757 total counted entries!

That means that in 4 years you’ve collectively written 21,392 pieces for this challenge!! That’s frickin’ amazing!

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2021. During that time frame:

Visit sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PDT for the prompt of the day. Convert to your timezone accordingly. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/zPdHWtwwhdzvTD82A

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time with any prompt #! There’s no need for latecomers to start with prompt #1. Picking up with the most recent prompt is A OK.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, you can volunteer here!

RULES & MORE INFO can be found here: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/

(( banner art by @dantinmikannes ))

Rules & Info || Prompt List || #FFxivWrite2021 || kofi

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My Light; My Heart

For @afreesworn

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FFXIVWrite2020 Participation Prize

For participation prize winner: @luck-and-larceny  Character: Malika Bajihri Congrats! Thank you for the easy back and forth in communicating. Very sweet and very understanding despite my chaotic flailing. Thanks!

@sea-wolf-coast-to-coast (Thank you for hosting. It was fun!)

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FFxivWrite2020 Recap

The final numbers are in, the participation prize winners have been randomly selected, and we are officially finished with #FFxivWrite2020!

8,757 total entries were submitted in 2020!

This includes all entries that were submitted via the Google Form, including late entries (and excluding duplicate entries).

That’s 2,214 more than last year (6,543 total in 2019), 5,116 more than the year before (3,641 total in 2018), and 6,532 more than the year before (2,225 total in 2017). Which brings us to 21,166 total entries over 4 years!

Pretty crazy, right??

And, we have 61 volunteer artists this year!! Which means that this year there are 61 prizes.

A breakdown of the stats + announcement of the Participation Prize winners are below the cut ~

Keep reading

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Finished commission for Valde Draesia of FFXIV’s Coeurl server! Thank you very much for commissioning me! 

@valde-draesia

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Finished a massive Lined commission for FFXIV characters L'Moi Golmarr and Bhaltair Thorstad! Thank you very much again for the commission, I had a blast working on this!

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Jadzia, Cai-ti of The Venture’s Price. 

Birthday present for @marcotumbles of his DnD character from one of our campaigns. Lv 5 Druid (currently); Circle of Land, Coast.  Water ref from here. 

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For raffle winner @glorified-thieves Thank you for the endless patience and your consideration.

Color reference from this pic.

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For raffle winner @under-the-blood-moonlight Thanks for the support and letting me mess around with dis ladee. 

Out a little later than I thought because I failed hardcore first round of coloring/lighting, deleted it all and then did it over again later. 

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Finished commission for Korudo! Had a ton of fun with the colors.

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Beautiful!

As Haurchefant’s demise is WoL’s deepest regret, his “Fray” takes the form of a dark Haurchefant. 

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♦ Dawn’s Edge ♦ ♦ Larger version - http://fav.me/ddawksw ♦ 1080p process vid - https://youtu.be/OGGsykC-bzU

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For raffle winner @blood-of-the-dragons  Thanks for your support and letting me work with your character!

I’m not gonna lie, I haven’t been feeling well, so this was pretty much all completed while watching rom coms cause that’s what I binge on off-days. 

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For raffle winner @crowsaerie-rp  (aka: @season-of-maha-moved) Thank you for your support and trusting me with your character!

(Hope you didn’t think I was kidding about being slow af on these. But I’m doing them, I promise!)

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Are you taking commissions perchance?

Not at the moment. But thank you so much for your interest! I’m flattered that people ask about this! I’m always so on the fence about it. But I really want to give it a shot someday. I also just want to make sure I’m properly prepared. 

Again, thank you!

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FFXIV Art Raffle Thing Winners:

Tumblr Winners:

@blood-of-the-dragons @under-the-blood-moonlight

Twitter Winners:

@glorified-thieves @season-of-maha

Apparently the online random-name picker I used really had a thing for blood names in the Tumblr ones LOL. 

Thank you for supporting me! I’ll be messaging soon in a totally at-your-own-pace-no-rush pm for reference, etc! 

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This is why you lock your hotbar, kids.

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