#FFxivwrite2020 recap

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

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 ~

Want to see all public entries? Here’s a link to the Master Spreadsheet. This omits entries that people requested to keep private between them and I.

NOTE: The big dips are Make up / Extra Credit Days. Lots of folks choose to take a break over writing Extra Credit. Legit!

NOTE: Day 7 was the day before the 24-hour deadline went into effect. Hence, the big ol’ spike.

Participation Prize Winners

Winners were selected via a random raffle dice roll made by each of the artists and span all online writing platforms, including Tumblr, Ao3, Google Docs, and others (like Twitter). This writing challenge is not a contest - no one’s work was being judged for length, skill, etc. The prizes are based on participation only!

Prizes will be a simple black & white portrait of the winner’s character. Most are shoulder up but the artists are free to take liberties if they’d like. Prizes are not commissioned work, so ultimately it’s the artist’s choice for what they’d like to do for the piece. Some artists (not all) accept commissions and might be open to colorizing your prize piece, after it’s been posted, at their normal rates.

If you are a winner, your artist will be in contact with you shortly for references. Make sure that your settings in tumblr, discord, and twitter allow people that you don’t follow to send you messages, otherwise your artists will not be able to contact you. You have 2 weeks to respond to your artist after they reach out to you. The 2-week countdown begins when they first attempt to contact you, so please make sure that your settings allow you to receive messages! :) After 2 weeks you run the risk of forfeiting your prize, in which case I would re-roll for a new winner to take your place.

If it’s been 1 week since this recap was posted and you haven’t heard from your artist, shoot me a message. I’ll reach out to them to see what’s going on.

Without further ado, here are this year’s winners! ~ 

(As usual, tumblr isn’t allowing me to tag everyone, so please let your friends know if you see them on this list!)

@starsandauras​

@karoiseka​

@eremiss​

@hyphen-yaeger​

@thecat-inthehat​

@zhauric​

lalafel_txt (twitter)

@serenityharkness

@luxicorde​

@sword-and-lance​

@cheetah-smith-ffxiv​

@candideangel​

@placesyoucallhome​

@persistentweed

sophiecognito (Ao3)

@azulann​

@scales-claws-and-thorns

@ofthegoldenleaf

peachyraye (twitter)

@jasleh​

@yezielmoore​

@jujusometimeswritesthings​

@talesfromthegameff14​

@adellennehocoleux​

@ffxiv-ariavitali​

@fistsoflightning​

@afreesworn​

OkamiLuna (Ao3)

Connor T (Google Docs)

Croceum (Google Docs)

Hemlock (Google Docs)

@ravencrossffxiv​

@frostclawdragoon​

@elveny​

@alamhigyoooo​

@themadchemist​

@amdapori​

asparklingwol (twitter)

@kunstpause​

Star Alopex (Ao3)

@amahrigold​

@ivyffxiv​

@yzareenxiv​

@luck-and-larceny​

clarystellaxiv (twitter)

@pulse-oflife​

Chocoboy_James (Ao3)

@the-wardens-torch​

cry_starium (twitter)

Darkrose (Ao3)

@stars-bleed-hearts-shine​

shoutzwastaken (twitter)

@lodsamone​

@the-baschet​

@rprambles​

@foewreckem

@jenesislabariel​

@endangered-liaison​

@maxikha-ffxiv​

@thanalansunglow

@avablackstone

Congrats, winners! If you need some pointers on how to take good reference screenshots check out this helpful guide from one of our artists:

https://gurosinner.tumblr.com/post/632262267881340928/laliho-o-im-volunteering-as-an-artist-for

Thank you everyone! 

We’ll see you next September for FFxivWrite2021

Rules & Info || Prompt List || #FFxivWrite2020 || kofi

[eyesofsteelandsky]

FFxivWrite2020 Recap!

Another year with 30 prompts done! Granted, one may not count due to Comcast shenanigans but as far as I’m concerned spiritually it’s 30 for 30. I love getting chances to explore parts of characters that wouldn’t likely come up naturally in RP, or take place outside of the scope of what I’d considered for them previously. A lot more current timeframe pieces this year, for every character.

Very much like last year, I’ve got a list prepped divided by character!:

Brem:

Prompt 1: Crux

Prompt 3: Muster

Prompt 4: Clinch

Prompt 6: Boundless

Prompt 8: Clamor

Prompt 10: Avail

Prompt 12: Tooth and Nail

Prompt 13: Recrudesce

Prompt 15: Ache

Prompt 16: Lucubration

Prompt 17: Fade

Prompt 18: Panglossian

Prompt 19: Where The Heart Is (Technically her dad, but still Brem related)

Prompt 20: Calembour

Prompt 22: Argy-Bargy

Prompt 23: Shuffle

Prompt 24: Beam

Prompt 25: Wish (NSFW)

Prompt 26: When Pigs Fly

Prompt 27: Heirloom

Prompt 28: Irenic

Prompt 29: Paternal

Prompt 30: Splinter

Tempest:

Prompt 5: Matter of Fact

Prompt 11: Ultracrepidarian (NSFW)

Prompt 14: Part

Prompt 21: Foibles

Mosh’ka:

Prompt 2: Sway (Mildly NSFW)

Prompt 7: Nonagenarian

Prompt 9: Lush (NSFW)

Thank you as always to @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for creating and running this whole thing! And good luck to everyone as far as the raffle drawing goes!

[thevoilinauttheory]

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 ]

[alamhigyoooo]

hooray!!!! ffxivwrite has come to a close, and i'm so stoked to say that i churned out a prompt for every day!

barring my weird sleep schedule i'm really proud of the pieces i've finished. i had so much fun piecing together hallura's character (and a few others!) over the course of this event and even sketched out new paths to take for the future.

i saw a few people doing a quick recap of their work for this year's event and i thought i might do the same! here are some fun statistics and personal notes about my ffxivwrite2020 run!

total word count: 18,995 words

shortest prompt: when pigs fly (194 words)

longest prompt: shuffle (986 words)

free day submissions: 4

personal favorite prompt: foibles

personal hardest prompt to write: where the heart is

a prompt i'd like to explore more: foibles (i really, really liked this prompt LOL)

i've received so much awesome feedback and love for the pieces i posted for this event and i really couldn't be more grateful for such a great chance to grow and develop my style. in just one year i've participated in two writing events and finally worked up the nerve to make a blog to explore hallura after almost six years of her just living in my brain rent-free LOL

more than anything though, i feel like i've proven to myself that i can do this, and that most importantly i can do this for me!

thank you to @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for hosting such an awesome event and for giving the ffxiv community a chance to do what it does best: create! congratulations to everyone who wrote for this event, even if it was just one prompt, and bravo for having the courage to put your work out there!

FFXIVWrite 2020 Masterpost

happy FFXIVWrite everyone! here is a masterpost for all the pieces I’ve written for this year’s event! right now, everything will link directly to ao3 since my relationship with tumblr formatting is terrible but i hope to transfer them to tumblr when i have some spare time! 

best of luck to all the ffxiv writers out there, and happy reading!

1. crux - wol & tataru taru, hinted wol x g’raha tia

2. sway - wol & ryne, wol & thancred waters, ryne & thancred waters

3. muster - wol & fray

4. clinch - wol x aymeric de borel

5. matter of fact - wol & lyse hext

6. scar (free day) - wol x crystal exarch

7. nonagenarian - wol & ardbert

8. clamor - wol & estinien wyrmblood, hinted wol x g’raha tia

9. lush - no pairing, wol backstory centric

10. avail - azem & emet-selch / azem x emet-selch

11. ultracrepidarian - wol & scions, wol x crystal exarch

12. tooth and nail - wol x aymeric de borel

13. pugnacious (free day) - wol & thancred waters, mentioned wol & alphinaud leveilleur

14. part - wol x g’raha tia

15. ache (NSFW) - wol x aymeric de borel x g’raha tia 

16. lucubration - wol & alphinaud leveilleur

17. fade - hinted wol x g’raha tia

18. panglossian - no pairing, wol introspection

19. where the heart is - tons of relationships, wol introspection/backstory centric

20. hoe (free day) - wol x aymeric de borel x g’raha tia

21. foibles - aymeric de borel & estinien wyrmblood, mentioned wol x aymeric de borel

22. argy-bargy - wol & cid nan garlond, wol & nero tol scaeva, hinted wol x g’raha tia

23. shuffle - wol & emmanellain de fortemps, wol & artoirel de fortemps, mentioned wol x aymeric de borel

24. beam - no pairing, wol introspection

25. wish (NSFW) - wol x sidurgu orl

26. when pigs fly - no pairing, wol introspection

27. bite the bullet (free day) - wol & ryne, wol & thancred waters, ryne & thancred waters

28. irenic - wol & alisaie leveilleur, wol & yotsuyu goe brutus

29. paternal - wol & ilberd feare

30. splinter - wol & azem, wol backstory centric

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

Congratulations, writers! #FFxivWrite2020 has come to a close.

For those of you still catching up, I will continue to accept entries until October 8th.

Please check the public spreadsheet for your entries and submit any links that you may have forgotten: https://tinyurl.com/public-entries-ffxivwrite2020

I will continue to accept volunteer artists until October 8th.

If you're an artist interested in volunteering to draw a simple black & white portrait as a participation prize, please visit the carrd for more info and to sign up: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/#prizes

Participation prize winners will be announced in the final #FFxivWrite2020 recap post, along with this year's stats, on October 15th.

All winners will have 2 weeks to reply to their artist's message with references. If you are a winner and you don't reply within 2 weeks you'll forfeit your prize and a new winner will be selected for that volunteer artist. I don't want any winners to miss out on their prizes so please keep an eye out on the 15th!

If you managed to write something for all 30 days by October 8th, please tag me in your master post!!

I would love to see your master posts and congratulate you for your commitment!

Thank you, everyone! Stats coming soon ❤

[idanwyn-et-al]

Congrats to everyone who participated, and everyone who won a prize! I didn't win any art, but that's okay. This was still my personal best year, having finished every prompt!

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 ~

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