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And here's my second submission, which comes in at 861 words:
Arvastel's Alchemical Abeyant
This puts me at a total 1119 words, meaning I only need 381 to pass this week, which is much more doable in a day or two than 730. So hopefully I'll be able to celebrate my first week of having risen to the challenge! :smallbiggrin:
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Status and stuff!!
Glass Mouse passes with 8 character drawings.
Lil Shiro didn't upload anything.
Shadowy Silence uploaded a poem about dreams.
Ice Walker passes with 1473 words of fantasy writings and a full page of training sketches.
Kyouhen passes with 5 sketches (including three bug ones), and 2 paintings, including one of Rainbow and Fluttershy bug-watching.
C'nor uploaded 1119 words of D&D spell and fantasy writings.
Thus, Lil Shiro, ShadowySilence and C'nor FAIL this round!
Glass Mouse, Ice Walker and Kyouhen PASS this round!
Welcome back, Ice!
Current standing:Spoiler
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Glass Mouse
Current run: 75 weeks
Longest run: -
Lil Shiro
Current run: -
Longest run: 2 weeks
ShadowySilence
Current run: -
Longest run: 4 weeks
Ice Walker
Current run: 1 week
Longest run: 3 weeks
Kyouhen
Current run: 11 weeks
Longest run: -
C'nor
Current run: -
Longest run: -
It's Lil Shiro's turn to choose a theme :smallsmile:
Reltzik: You're out, due to disappearance. Feel free to drop by again, and I still owe you a prize, so... let me know.
@C'nor: Tsk, tsk, tsk... :smallwink:
Ice Walker: Haha, you're back alright. Good to see you again!
Lil Shiro and ShadowySilence, it's good to see sporadic works here and there, but if you don't pass this week, I'm gonna take you off the list. Having two participants who can be relied on to fail is bad PR.
Edit: Oy oy, I managed to miss your update, C'nor! (well, technically, it's past deadline, anyway, but... :smallwink:). It's corrected now.
And the deadline is Sunday. Hope you'll make it next week! :smallsmile:
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*facepalm*
Whoops! I'd gotten confused about when you posted the last one and thought I had another day... Oh well.
Also, I seem to have ninja'd you - I made an 861 word potion, too.
Edit: Thanks!
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Haha, and you ninja'ed my edit. We're good at this XD
I post status at 11 am GMT+1, which is when Sunday is over everywhere. That's probably why it may seem like a strange time.
Just have everything up by Sunday, and there'll be no problem :smallsmile:
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It seems we are. :smalltongue:
In this case, what threw me was that I only remember that you'd posted on the 26th, and forgot, when the month changed, that the 26th for March was now up at the top; since the two have different numbers of days, it looked like it wasn't due until the third. But yes, your strategy should work to prevent any more confusion over when I need to get things up by.
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Yeah, sorry, this next term's going to be extremely busy for me. I might be back in two or three months.
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C'nor
In this case, what threw me was that I only remember that you'd posted on the 26th, and forgot, when the month changed, that the 26th for March was now up at the top; since the two have different numbers of days, it looked like it wasn't due until the third. But yes, your strategy should work to prevent any more confusion over when I need to get things up by.
Ah, I see. It needs to be a rule about simplicity, really - "everything, no matter how simple, will at some point be thought to be extremely complex."
Holds true as far as I know :smallwink:
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Yeah, sorry, this next term's going to be extremely busy for me. I might be back in two or three months.
Sounds great! Not the "busy" part, but the "be back" part, I mean. Anyway, good luck until you get back :smallsmile:
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I want to write poetry, but I'm too uninspired and distracted to write any. I'll join again some other time.
Keeping with the theme, this weeks theme is Failure.
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Ooh, that's a theme my drawing practice represents well whether I want it to or not!
:smalltongue:
But that's why I'm here, right?
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That's why we're all here, Ice :smallwink:
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Uh oh. Busy weekend coming up. We'll see if I get my work done. (Note: if I do, it may be a bit late, I'll probably be out after midnight on Sunday)
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Link to the first thing for this week, coming in at 277 words:
Blindworms
Carcinoma Beetles to come later tonight.
Well, it turns out Carcinoma Beetles didn't work, so have Comprehengeon instead. It ended up being 1,018 words long, bringing my total to 1,295 words. And it (if unintentionally) fits the theme, too, so that's nice.
Hopefully I'll have at least 205 words on something starting with D up by the deadline.
And The Dreamer is 400 words, putting me at 1,695 words in total.
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Time for status!
Glass Mouse passes with 18 pencil drawings, including two failure-themed ones.
Lil Shiro uploaded four poems of various themes, three done for contests.
Shadowy Silence uploaded a poem about happiness masks.
Ice Walker didn't send me anything.
Kyouhen passes with 18 drawings, including a sad pony, a painting-fail pony, a cupcake-fail pony, a triforce-fail pony, and a meta-fail drawing contest. Also, a small horror comic.
C'nor passes with 1,695 words of writings, including the short story of [spoiler] a not-very-succesful assassin.
Thus, Lil Shiro, ShadowySilence and Ice Walker FAIL this round!
Glass Mouse, Kyouhen and C'nor PASS this round!
Current standing:Spoiler
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Glass Mouse
Current run: 76 weeks
Longest run: -
Ice Walker
Current run: -
Longest run: 3 weeks
Kyouhen
Current run: 12 weeks
Longest run: -
C'nor
Current run: 1 week
Longest run: -
It's Ice Walker's turn to choose a theme :smallsmile:
@C'nor: First week done, good job :smallbiggrin: Reading your stories really makes me want to get back into supershort stories myself. It's a great genre to practice brevity and subtlety. Gotta do something about that.
@ShadowySilence and @Lil Shiro: while it's great that you uploaded something, I'm still gonna remove you from the list. When you pass a week, let me know, and I'll put you right back on it! :smallsmile:
@Ice Walker: Sorry you didn't make it. Better luck next week.
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Yeah, didn't manage unfortunately. But, won't stop me.
And, such thoughts in mind, this week's theme is hope.
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I think I'll get back into this. Thread link is in my signature.
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Hope, huh? Well, that could be a challenge in and of itself, considering my plans for posts... :smalltongue:
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Icewalker
And, such thoughts in mind, this week's theme is hope.
Sweet theme :smallsmile:
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Originally Posted by
Shades of Gray
I think I'll get back into this. Thread link is in my signature.
Awesome! Welcome back!
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Hey guys!
I just had this thing linked to me. It was described by the sender as: "A thing that one of the goons made that I've been sending to everyone who likes writing. FuegoFish made it, and it's really fun. The idea is that you're supposed to challenge yourself to invent a setting based on the elements it generates, but I think it's also a good source of inspiration."
I think it looks neat! And since we're a bunch of writers here, I thought I'd share.
Personally, I'm gonna do at least one writing piece (250 words) inspired by this, before Sunday. We'll see if it spirals into more :smallwink:
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Interesting. Though for some reason, it seems to be averse to giving me anything but modern fantasy suggestions... Is it stuck in a loop that it'll eventually get out of, or is that a feature?
Also, I've found my plans for the week have gotten a bit sidetracked, so I'm not entirely sure if I'll get enough stuff up in time. Especially since I've found myself wanting to write poetry, and it takes rather a lot of that to get up to 1500 words.
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C'nor
Interesting. Though for some reason, it seems to be averse to giving me anything but modern fantasy suggestions... Is it stuck in a loop that it'll eventually get out of, or is that a feature?
I only know what I wrote above, unfortunately. I hadn't even noticed the bias - I guess I'm too much in love with modern fantasy :smallwink:
As for poems, there are different rules. One poem = one piece. They take much longer to write, and they're self-contained, so for simplicity's sake, it's left as that.
So go nuts with your poems!
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Glass Mouse
I only know what I wrote above, unfortunately. I hadn't even noticed the bias - I guess I'm too much in love with modern fantasy :smallwink:
As for poems, there are different rules. One poem = one piece. They take much longer to write, and they're self-contained, so for simplicity's sake, it's left as that.
So go nuts with your poems!
Modern fantasy is nice. :smallbiggrin: I just happened to notice because the first two things it spit out at me, I'd done in some form (one was serious, the other... Less so, as could be expected from a combination of Red Dwarf and Shadowrun), so I went through three of them in a very short space of time.
And in that case, hurray! Though they don't seem to take longer to write for me. But I suspect that's more because it often takes me an inordinately long time to actually figure out how to say stuff, even if I have ideas, than because I'm actually fast about poetry... :smallsigh:
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Haha, that looks like an awesome generator, but I'm afraid I have way too many ideas already! I need to finish something of what I have, first!
Also, the moral of this week is, drawing books teach you to draw. Or, in other words, hurr durr I finally looked at the drawing books I have and will be easily finishing six pages of proportions and pose practice, which is going FANTASTICALLY. I can actually draw things shaped and positioned like framework people!
Edit: Uploading!
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I'm back in business :smallbiggrin:
Drawing books are very useful! Very useful! I dabbled a little with Anatomy and Drawing by Victor Perard, which was cool and interesting and taught me proper body proportions (the whole seven and a half heads thing), which I was utterly lacking in knowledge of. But, most of that book is really detailed anatomical considerations, which I think is too advanced to be helpful to me. So I moved on to Andrew Loomis' book Fun With a Pencil which is his starting drawing book, and took on faces again, with enormous success:
Hopefully I'll be able to keep up for a while this time!
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I really doubt I'll be getting anything at all up this week. My brain decided to spit out a song adaptation, two poems, and the ideas for a death goddess and a sci-fi story involving said deity, then not let me actually finish any of it. :smallsigh:
Sorry!
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Status!
Glass Mouse passes with six figures and 800 (non-uploaded) words.
Ice Walker passes with six double pages of face and body sketches.
Kyouhen uploaded three drawings of a rocket pony.
C'nor didn't upload anything.
Shades of Gray passes with four stick figures, a t-shirt design, and a poster.
Thus, Kyouhen and C'nor FAIL this round!
Glass Mouse, Ice Walker and Shades of Gray PASS this round!
Current standing:Spoiler
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Glass Mouse
Current run: 77 weeks
Longest run: -
Ice Walker
Current run: 1 week
Longest run: 3 weeks
Kyouhen
Current run: -
Longest run: 12 weeks
C'nor
Current run: -
Longest run: 1 week
Shades of Gray
Current run: 1 week
Longest run: 4 weeks
It's Ice Walker's turn to choose a theme :smallsmile:
@Kyouhen: What... what happened? You're our mascot! You can't fail!
@Ice Walker: Whoa, progress! Those faces actually look... constructed! It's great to see you getting a feel for the shapes that faces are made of. Also, yay, stick figures and dynamic poses :smallbiggrin:
My boyfriend (who's trying to become a CG artist) is a huge fan of Lumis as well. Seems like you're in good company.
I didn't do that writing exercise because time (and a secret project) ran away from me. Crud. I'll do it this week, promise.
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Yeah, sorry, life's been extremely busy and I seem to keep falling asleep when I try to get my pictures online. >_<
I've uploaded everything I did last week now, though I'm still pretty sure I failed the challenge unless the last painting I did is somehow worth 4 points. I couldn't seem to come up with any ideas that matched the theme. o_O
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Is it again? Well then, this week's theme is Batman.
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...I curse you and everything you stand for!
*Totally didn't draw several Batman-based things last week*
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Originally Posted by
Kyouhen
Yeah, sorry, life's been extremely busy and I seem to keep falling asleep when I try to get my pictures online. >_<
Aw, that sucks. I feel for you.
I have a few weeks every semester where I only get by challenge-wise because I write and draw on lunch breaks and in the mornings. Crunch weeks are fuuuuun :smallwink:
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Is it again? Well then, this week's theme is
Batman.
Oops, I actually forgot to change it. But let's roll with it - it'll be a good excuse to actually draw the bat! :D
Also, that video is the silliest thing I've seen in a long time. Strangely catchy, though.
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That's just Act 1, Part 1. It's an entire musical. :smallbiggrin:
(The villains get the best song, of course. Villains always do.)