#FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize

[xyanmajor]

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Ritanelle Soleil - Make up prize (2018 participation) for the lovely @ffxiv-swarm ! Here is their character : Ritanelle Soleil ; a proud Duskwight Elezen which works as a summoner <3

It was pretty cool to work on ! Thank you and I hope this art will please you.

Tagging @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast , the owner of the challenge, just in case !

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

FFxivWrite2019

FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2019

Welcome to YEAR 3 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 ramped up even more with 3,641 written pieces! 

We are a merry band of prolific writers, FFxiv RP community, and I couldn't be prouder of our willingness to challenge ourselves creatively, using our RP craft as inspiration. Let’s see how we do in 2019!

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2019. During that timeframe:

Visit @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PST for the prompt of the day. 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/EJV82Wh85BZpwaFa9  – Tumblr has been hiding @ mentions from my dash which means that I’m missing so many of your entries. :( Submitting a link to your post via this Form will ensure that everyone’s posts are seen and tracked! Please help me, haha. Tag @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ in your post, and use the hashtag #FFxivWrite2019.

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 - late entries are welcome! They simply won’t count toward participation prizes - unless submitted on a makeup day.

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, please let me know!

RULES & MORE INFO below the cut~

What’s the purpose of this writing challenge?

First and foremost, the purpose of this challenge is to break the power of perfectionism over your personal creative process. Some folks frown on my 24-hour submission deadline but I think that it’s a critical part in getting people to just go ahead and submit something, even if it’s not perfect, and in doing so perfectionism begins to lose its power day by day.

If you’re someone who rarely creates because the fear of it not being perfect keeps you from starting or finishing, then this challenge is designed for YOU!

Of course, connecting FFxiv writers, of all skill and experience levels, and sharing our work is also a perk!

Rules:

You cannot submit things that you’ve already written – Even if the topic is the same. All entries must be new and freshly written for this challenge!

No rough drafts and no redos – Relax! Use this as a low-pressure opportunity to loosen up and de-rust your writing chops. No one will be judging your work for quality or length. The purpose is to get into the habit of writing daily. Don’t overthink it, and don’t put too much pressure on yourself! It’s all for fun!

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/EJV82Wh85BZpwaFa9  – Tumblr has been hiding @ mentions from my dash which means that I’m missing so many of your entries. :( Submitting a link to your post via this Form will ensure that everyone’s posts are seen and tracked! Please help me, haha. Tag @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast in all of your entries and use the #FFxivWrite2019 hashtag – Thanks to Tumblr shadowbans, using a hashtag alone is no longer a great way for me to track prompt entries. :( So! Tag me, please, so that I don’t miss your posts. You’ll know that I’ve tracked your post when you see a like from me (NOTE: sometimes it takes 48 hours for me to catch up to your latest posts). 

Select which Prompt # your submitted link is for in the Google Form  – There’s no longer a need to include the Prompt # in the title of the post unless you want to for your own tracking purposes. Include the prompt number in the TITLE of your post – Example: “Prompt #10: Your clever post name.” Entries without the prompt number included in the post title won’t be counted toward prizes.

You have until prompt #7 to back write for participation prizes – That means that if you discover the writing challenge a few days, or even a week after it’s started, you can still jump in and back write as many of the first 7 prompts as you want and they’ll count as entries toward the participation prize! After day 8, however, no back writing will be counted towards the prize - unless it’s submitted on a makeup day. That being said, it is totally possible for someone with only 1 participation entry for the duration of the contest to be drawn as the participation prize winner so don’t give up due to lack of participation overall!

Absolutely no griefing, harassing, or trolling other writers – This will earn you an automatic disqualification from the event.

Tag NSFW content with #NSFW and put it below a cut – Similarly, if your entry contains graphic or violent content that may be triggering to others, please include a brief trigger warning at the top of your post. Be considerate of your readers!

Make-up Days / Extra Credit Days:

EVERY SUNDAY will be a makeup/extra credit day. No prompt will be provided on these days. Instead, you’re welcome to back write and submit as many entries for previous prompts as you’d like! You can also make up your own prompt to write to for the day and submit that as extra credit.

Completing all prompts + extra credit will put you at 30 entries total toward the participation prize raffle.

Participation Prizes:

In early October, I will total up the number of all entries made within their 24-hour deadline, or on makeup days/extra credit, and draw winning numbers for a black & white portrait of their character drawn by one of our volunteer artists.

The number of available prizes depends on how many artists volunteer.

While we do have prizes, remember that getting a prize is not the ultimate purpose of this challenge. It’s a chance for you to beat the snot out of perfectionism in your creative process by just DOING IT! :D

As always, send me an ask or a message with questions. 

Let’s do this, FFxiv community!

(( FFxiv2019 banner art by @dantinmikannes ))

[cactuarjen]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize

For the super great @onwesterlywinds of the adventurous, quite possibly headstrong Ahtyn of Balmung. Looks like Feo Ul is having a hard time with her. 

I was really amused with the entry this piece is based on, and you can read it here.

Big thanks to @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for putting in the hours to keep track of the literal thousands of posts participants shared this year! It’s gotten bigger and bigger every year, so I look forward to being awed by the mountain of posts next year too!

[hithren]

FFXIVWrite2019 Participation Prize

For @aegis-fate A big thank you to @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for running this whole thing again, and I was happy to help with a raffle prize.

[nalukahvi]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize  - @ahlis-xiv 

I had the pleasure of drawing Ahlis’ name from the pool of participants in the 2019 FFXIV Write challenge hosted and maintained by @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast ! 

All Rights Reserved; This work is not free-use and may not be taken, claimed, edited, copied, redistributed, or otherwise used without my consent. Reposting is 🚫, Reblogging is ♥

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[lilbugprincess]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize!

Though I didn’t keep up on writing this year, it was absolutely incredible how many people did... and so I’m extremely happy to say that I had the chance to draw one of the prizes for people who participated this year!

I drew @blacksnakeofkugane ‘s incredibly lovely lovely character... thank you @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for the chance to be a part of this, and thanks everyone who wrote such amazing things all month!

[pydoodles]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize

A big warm ‘good job’ to @eremiss for participating in the ffxiv writing month. Congratulations my man.

This is a pic of her girl, full black and white. I enjoyed doing a bit of red mage weaponry and then actually getting down a good pose for braiding hair, of all things. That’s never an easy task, man. Braids are harder than they look.

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Additional tag: @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast 

[sojournstudio]

FFXIVWrite2019 Participation Prize

The FFXIVWrite2019 project is run by @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast and I’m glad to have been able to donate my skills as an artist this year for prize winners.

This is @miss-balentine and I worked from a reference photo on Pinterest for the pose and lighting.

[tarotoro0]

B/W halfbody sketch comm of Erik’a for @eorzeanfool. FFxivWrite2019 participation prize, hosted by @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast :D

Comms Open

[svashing]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize for @sunlitpeony 

Thank you @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for running FFXIV write again this year!

[nyansarts]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize

Kori Tajima for @rebellis-tremellius!

I had the pleasure of drawing Kori for this year's FFXIV Write challenge. I had a lot of fun drawing her ♥

Thank you @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for hosting such a great event, and I hope to help out again next year!

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[xyanmajor]

°°°°   FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize °°°°

S'norah Khalu  - Prize for the kind @norahffxiv who won in the FFxivWrite2019 challenge hosted by @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast !!

It was a pleasure to draw your sweet Miqo’te <3 ! Hope you enjoy it !

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As always, if you like what you see don’t hesit to visit my pages and ask for a commission >> here << ! FFxiv is super fun to draw and I accept too others fantasy heroic-ffandom <3

[cherrytart-ffxiv]

prompt 6: first steps.

[[ Though I am not actively participating in FFXIVWrite2019, I will be grabbing ones I have the muse for! If you ARE interested, click here to learn more about this awesome annual project. ]]

“Why?” 

This is the only question on my tongue as I stand in the doorway of my grandparents’ dusty apartment, my skin dripping rain. Lightning crackles behind me, and the thunder groans, like the sky was in pain. My hands shake as I clench the documents tighter, leaving finger prints made of water in the parchment. Elizabeth Wells regards me coolly as she lays on the couch, a cigarette dangling between her thin, chapped lips.

“You finally found them, did you?”

“Why?”

The strength in my tone grows as the wind howls, and I can feel it-- that odd sparking in my veins, like someone had lit a match beneath my skin. An electrical current runs through me as I look over that woman, lounging, her steel-wool hair bound in a tight bun at the nape of her neck. Her face is a crag, aged more quickly than it ought to have been. I can only assume it’s her evil that’s aged her, and I am loathe to admit that it will be her evil that keeps her alive, too.

“My son promised to keep your mother’s spawn safe,” she sneers at me, flicking ash onto the dirty carpet beneath the sagging sofa. “Isn’t that what we did, Audrey? We kept you safe--” 

“BULLSHIT!”

I slam the door behind me. There were many times where I screamed curses at the old hag, where I slammed the door, but it was never to approach her-- only to run in the opposite direction. This is the only time I can recall seeing even the faintest flicker of fear in her eyes as I come close. It fuels me. I savor it. I savor the way her gaze quivers as I prowl, slam the papers I had found in the old farmhouse down on the table with such force that the old legs creak. 

“Keep me safe... You really think I’m stupid, don’t you? You think I never heard those talks with Alfie? You think I don’t know he gives you some of the gil I make? You think I don’t know about how you fucking sold me as soon as your precious son was in his grave?! I heard it all! I heard every last word! I read every last piece of paper with my name on it, you wretched, hellish bitch!”

“Then why are you here?” Elizabeth has never been a calm woman. She yells back, rises shakily to her feet with the help of her cane. I surprise even myself as I storm across the room and seize the gnarled cane in my hand. Our eyes lock before I wrench it from her grip, toss it across the room, watch as her weak old legs give out and force her to collapse onto the couch. 

She is taller than me. She will not have that kind of high ground over me now. 

“Because I wanted to see if you could tell me the truth for even half a fucking second,” I hiss, looming over this woman who has beaten and belittled me since age nine, who swooped in on a child who lost everything only to twist her around, make her believe she was worthless and disgusting. 

“You knew where my mother came from, where Connor and I come from. You know who my father is! Patrick knew! Jack knew! You all knew! And don’t tell me-- you know if my real father is alive or dead, don’t you? Don’t you?!” I add in a shout when she doesn’t answer me, smirking at my rage.

“You found your little death certificate, didn’t you?” Elizabeth asks coolly. “Connor’s, and Kaida’s... stupid Doman whore. She made my son put his neck on the line, took away years of his life to look after her voidspawn. It was only a matter of time until he died, you know! No one really knows what happened to my son... Maybe it was one of those Garleans that hunted him down, or one of those Far Eastern whoresons coming to fetch you that killed him! He deserved better!” 

“Is that why?” My voice trembles, cracks, and I swallow the lump in my throat. “You were angry? No... No one knows exactly what happened to your son, Elizabeth. But you would rob a child of her real life because you were angry? You’d torture a child because of it?” 

“There is only one good thing about you, Audrey,” Elizabeth drawls, glaring up at me with ice in her cloudy blue eyes. “And it’s that you were born good looking. That’s all. That’s all you have to contribute to this world. How do you know your father even wanted you to begin with? A death certificate was good enough. He didn’t want your bodies. He didn’t come check with his own two eyes--”

Even steely Elizabeth jumps at the sudden clap of thunder that threatens to just about split the apartment in two. I stare at her as I hear the crashing of plates and mugs in the kitchen, as glasses shatter on the floor. The windows shake so hard that a crack forms in one of them, and for just half a second, I swear I can see a pair of yellow eyes over the old woman’s head, both the size of pumpkins. They blink, and they disappear. Elizabeth’s mouth is open in surprise, a hand over her weak heart as she looks around the room.

“Choose your words carefully,” I say quietly. “There is more than just you and me who will hear them.” 

A pretty threat. Cato, maybe... but Caius had mentioned those eyes to me before. He’d seen them before. I look to where they had hovered, and I expect myself to feel unnerved. No-- I feel calm. There is something that soothes me. I am not alone, and something is watching me, but it instills no fear. Slowly, my gaze turns back to Elizabeth as she stares at the cracked window.

“We needed the money,” she snaps. “And you were the prize hog. No one was looking for you. Your own brother can’t stand the sight of you for tearing the family apart when he was just a boy. Can you blame us, you idiot girl? Connor has made himself useful. He’s been a good grandson. You-- nothing but a whore who thinks herself above us because you learned a few tricks to get secrets out of people. Anyone can suck a cock, Audrey. You’re not special.” 

Don’t listen to her. Don’t. She’s trying to hurt you. She’s trying to make you second guess everything. Your father would want you if he was alive. There has to be a reason. There has to be explanations. 

“When your time comes, Elizabeth... when you pass, and you’re met with whatever the afterlife might be, I hope it burns.” I speak through my teeth, glaring at her as my hands shake. “I hope you receive punishment for your sins. And I hope you feel every pain I have felt tenfold. Because it’s your fault. Your beatings, your neglect, selling me like a pig at the market... That’s you. And someday, you’ll have to answer for it.”

“What? Do you plan on being my reckoning?” I watch her as she laughs, like a woman that’s been possessed or gone out of her mind.

“I haven’t ruled it out. You should get on your knees,” I add as I start for the door, grabbing the documents I had slammed on the table, “and you should start praying that it isn’t so.” 

She says something as I close the door behind me, but I don’t hear her. The Wells family is no longer a part of me. I shut her out. I shut Jack out. I shut that part of my life out. 

I take the first steps towards what should have been.

[arimaxiv]

FFxivWrite2019 Participation Prize

@vexyvess thank you for participating as well!! ✨🙏

also, thank you @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for hosting the event!! 🙌🙌🙌💖

 totally forgot to post this when I got it, but I got my art piece for being part of the FFxivWrite! Thank you to both @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast and @arimaxiv