November 2025 SWC Writing Megathread

Hello and welcome to the official SWC writing thread! This thread is for any SWCers to share writing so we don't all have to make our own writing threads. Additionally, the second post of this thread will be a sort of “masterpost” of rules and info about SWC for campers <3

Please read through the first post of this thread whether or not you have read it before - our rules are changed and edited every session as we work on improving SWC! Yes it's long, but all of this information is important for you to know, because we share the forums with the rest of Scratch! If you have any questions afterwards, please ask me or another host on our profiles - that way it's easier for you to get a response without clogging up this thread <3

What you can put here:
Any writing you do during SWC (whether daily, weekly, word war, writing competition entry or just your own writing) can go in this thread! You can either make a new post per piece of writing, or make one post and edit your new writing into it - either is fine!

Please try not to have conversations or chat here - you can post writing, give critique and discuss others' writing but if off topic conversations happen here, it's likely the topic will be deleted or closed by the Scratch Team. We'd like to avoid that. <3

Remember to check any writing you post to make sure it does not contain any personal details or private information. If it does, you can either edit out/change the details or not post the writing! Stay safe online ^^

Ways to use this forum:
There are two main ways to use this forum - but other ways are okay too!

Making one post and editing your new writing into it. If you use this method, please edit new writing into the top of your post, so it's easier for leaders to find!

Making a new post for every writing piece (you could also include an optional “table of contents” post which contains a list of writing pieces and links to them!)

Reporting posts
Please don't hesitate to report other posts if you feel you need to! Valid reasons to report posts include:

- The post shares private information
- The post contains rude/offensive language
- The post is spam or off topic
- The post does not belong in this topic
- The post otherwise breaks Scratch's guidelines or makes you uncomfortable

When you click report, you will be provided with a comment box to explain why you reported the post - and please do so! It helps the forum moderators understand what you want them to do.

On the Scratch forums, there are lots of reasons you can report things other than that they're inappropriate. Reporting is not trying to get the user in trouble, picking on the user, or going behind their back - it's simply helping to keep the forums organized, tidy and Scratch safe. You won't get in trouble for reporting a post that doesn't need reporting, as there are no rules as to what does and doesn't need reporting. So it's fine to report posts that don't belong in this thread, are off topic, or are spam as well as inappropriate posts.

Discussing people's writing
It's completely okay to respond to and comment on people's writing here. However:

People won't necessarily see your responses to their writing, because they don't get a notification when you quote their writing. Instead, you can comment on their profile, either commenting on their writing there or saying something like “hey! I responded to your writing piece here: <link>”

It's also fine to give critique to others' writing here, but make sure to give the person the link to your critique!
Also, please keep in mind that not everyone here will want critique on their writing! Make sure to ask permission before giving anyone critique.

To get the link to a post, right click the top left corner of the post, where it says the date and time it was posted. Then click “copy link address”, and paste the link wherever you need it.

Personal writing threads
Personal writing threads will be allowed this session! However, please only make one forum topic for just your writing - put it in the "Things I'm Making and Creating" forum, and use that topic for the whole of this SWC session. This means not creating a new topic for, say, your writing competition entry, and certainly not creating a new topic for each writing piece, as this is a nightmare for forum moderators and other people using the forums.
It is still highly recommended that you use the megathread in order to be considerate to other forumers! Having a lot of different writing topics makes it harder to find other topics, so please consider carefully whether you'd be willing to use the megathread before creating a personal topic

Other Ways to Share Writing
Not everyone wants to share their writing in the forums, and that's fine - here are some other places it's okay to share your writing!

You could create a new scratch project (perhaps on an alternate account if you don't want to share writing on your main account!) and share your writing as an in-project comment, in the description and notes and credits, or pasted into a costume using the text tool.

You can take a photo or screenshot of your writing and either put it inside a scratch project or upload it to cubeupload, then share that link. You will need an account to use cubeupload, but it's a safe way to share images and the Scratch team allows it.

Please note that blankslate is not allowed. If you don't know what it is, it's a writing sharing program that we used to use frequently in SWC but is no longer allowed because of its lack of moderation.

Do not attempt to bypass Scratch's filter in order to share writing on sites that are not allowed. Not only are these sites banned for a reason, but you will get caught if you attempt to share links to them on Scratch. Proof shared via other sites will not count. Cubeupload is the exception to this rule, as it is allowed by Scratch in order to share images on the forums ^^

Thanks everyone, and happy writing!

(Many thanks to Kat, Sun, Luna, Robin and Linden for writing the megathread post in previous sessions, from which this was mainly copied!)

If you believe any of these rules shouldn’t apply / should apply differently for a specific case (e.g. adding a daily when this guide says not to), take it to the hosts! We’re happy to deal with edge cases and/or disputes on an individual basis. Questions about these should be taken to your leader or a host's profile, not asked here

TLDR

• Only literary words may be added - see the first section below for a full description of this!
  
• Leaders may ask for proof of writing if they believe the amount you're adding is unrealistic.
  
• You must give an explanation of what you were writing when you add words. Leaders will not add words without this.
  
• You may not add more than 10,000 words at once.
  
• Dailies and weeklies must be commented in the Main Cabin before they end, even if the description has not yet been updated.
  
• Proof for dailies and weeklies must be shown on Scratch. There will not be exceptions to this rule for having inappropriate writing.
  Proof of winning a word war isn't necessary - they're run on an honor system.
  
• Please do not escalate arguments! Simply stop responding and report any offensive comments.
  
• Make sure not to take cabin rivalries too far and remember that the point is to have fun!
  

Adding words

You can add words whenever you write literarily using your cabin’s word counting method - this will most likely mean commenting the number of words you wrote in your cabin’s word counting location (this will likely be a studio but could also be a forum, profile or project!) as well as a summary/brief description of what you are adding. (E.g. “+503 words for part of an essay”.)
Your leaders will add these words to your total.
We keep track of words during SWC as they make up part of a cabin’s total points at the end of the session as well as acting as a motivation factor for campers.

*See a list of things that count below:

What counts

• Roleplay - As a guideline, you should be somewhat in character and there should be description of actions in addition to dialogue
  
• Fictional writing
  
• Non-fictional writing
  
• Literary journal entries
  
• Writing in another language - if you’re unsure on how many words to add because the language counts writing in a different way (e.g. character counts in Chinese), Google Translate it to English and use that word count. We hope that this will be close to the number of words it would be in spoken language, but if you have a different suggestion, please let us know!
  
• Schoolwork - essays, assignments that include literary/analytical writing (such as worksheets requiring analysis of parts of a novel) but not note taking or non-literary writing such as writing out math problems
  
• Giving critique (but only the words you wrote! If you gave 1000 words of critique but 300 of those were quotes of the original writing, add 700 words)
  
• Stream of consciousness writing
  
• Vents/rambles
  
• Formal emails that are longer than a paragraph
  
• Explanatory SWC dailies that are longer than a paragraph
  
• Words from comics
  
• Parodies (so long as it’s mostly your original thought)
  

As a general rule, if it contains your original ideas, it counts.

What doesn’t count

• Notetaking
  
• Texting, commenting, etc.
  
• Copying another person’s writing
  
• Translating
  
• Writing thing out from memory / copying things out (e.g. copying out a textbook, lyric spam)
  
• Code - even if using a text based programming language!
  

Needing proof

• If your leader thinks that the amount you’re writing is unrealistic, they may ask for proof or choose not to add it.
  
• You must outline what you were writing when you add words. Your leaders will not be allowed to add the words otherwise! (a sufficient outline could look like: “365 words were from an english worksheet, 1946 were from working on my novel, 568 from the daily, 2868 from working on an essay”. Be aware that a timespan for the writing is not a sufficient outline!)
  
• If you are uncomfortable sharing proof for writing, that’s okay! Exceptions to giving proof (even for large blocks of writing) can be provided on an individual basis and you will have better luck getting one if you cooperate and are willing to give partial proof and detailed explanations/descriptions on what you’ve written. Other solutions to this can include giving a leader/host proof in a discreet location (on scratch of course - this could be editing an old forum post or putting it in a comment inside an old project).

Reserves

• Reserves are words that you don’t add right away.
  
• Only up to 10k words may be added at a time, regardless of whether or not you share the writing.
  
• An exception may be granted if you were unable to access Scratch for over a week. Please contact a host if this is the case!
  
• All words become reserves after camp is over in all timezones.

Activities

• Activities must be submitted before they end in UTC, even if the Main Cabin description has not been updated yet!
  
• Campers and leaders are expected to give all required proof for weeklies and dailies, and it must be submitted on time to earn points.
  
• Proof must be provided on Scratch, and all writing must be Scratch appropriate if you need to provide proof for it. Photos of writing count as proof, and may be shared using a Scratch-approved image host.
  

Dailies

• If you have a question about a daily, ask in the main cabin! Hosts and/or leaders will make a judgment on this - if you’re a camper, please refrain from answering any questions that are subject to interpretation (clarifying rules and such is fine!), leave it to the leaders and hosts please <3
  
• Extensions for dailies are unavailable as there really isn’t any point in granting them given the low point value and short timeframe of dailies.
  

Weeklies

• If you are uncomfortable sharing proof for a weekly, you should contact the hosts or your leader as early as possible. Exceptions to giving proof can be provided on an individual basis and you will have better luck getting one if you let us know early (as opposed to simply refusing to give proof when trying to add your weekly). Other solutions to this can include giving a leader/host proof in a discreet location (on scratch of course - this could be editing an old forum post or putting it in a comment inside an old project).
  
• If you have queries about a weekly, try to wait until a host or member of the daily team can clarify.
  
• Extensions for weeklies can be granted on an individual basis. You should let the hosts know as early as possible and you can discuss it with us from there.

Writing Competition, Word Wars, & Cabin Wars

Information on these events is provided as time progresses during the session. However, if you have any questions beforehand, you’re more than welcome to reach out to a host with them!

Honoraries

Honoraries are people who are NOT participating in a session of SWC, but are invited by a leader to hang out in a cabin as an unofficial member and boost morale and/or have a role in the storyline. However, they are restricted from doing anything that leaders would typically do, such as adding words. They may not be listed in the cabin description.

If you would like to partake in a different cabin's activities or storyline, you can ask that leader if you can do so. This does NOT make you an honorary. Rather, you are just a member of a cabin who is participating in the activities of another cabin. The leader may agree or refuse (and they may decide how much of a role you can have and which of the activities you may do), and you are expected to be accepting of any decision they make. Leaders are also not allowed to list people who do this in the cabin description, and they cannot make any further contributions than completing the activities.

Anyone is welcome to hang out or boost cabin morale in other cabins at any point. Do try to be the most enthusiastic in your own cabin, though — your fellow campers will appreciate it!

Please see this project if you have more questions.

Arguments and Drama

• If any links to leader discussions are leaked, please ignore the comments. If it can be classified as spam, you can report the comments, but please don’t mass report with multiple accounts as that can lead to alerts from the ST.
  
• If you get into a fight with anyone, it’s best to stop responding so it doesn’t escalate. You can ask your leader or a host for help. Of course, report any offensive material you see as part of such an argument (e.g. projects calling people to report a specific user or people speaking badly about others).
  
• Please take care to not take cabin rivalries too far! Using this tone indicators guide can be helpful in ensuring that no one’s feelings get hurt. If you do feel that someone has gone beyond friendly jokes, you can remind them that it’s just for fun, report the comments, or ask a leader/host for help, depending on what you feel fits the situation!
  

Thanks for reading all of this! Again, if you have any questions or believe there should be an exception, please comment on a host's profile, not in this forum <3

FIRST <3

01 ┊ Saki's Skylar's 1k Intro ⋆ 1375 words ⋆ 0 points
02 ┊ Good Weather ⋆ 715/500 words ⋆ 600 points
03 ┊ A Lecture on Jellyfish Stings ⋆ 505/400 words ⋆ 500 points
04 ┊ Sakura no Hanabiratachi ⋆ 491/300 words ⋆ 450 points
05 ┊ see “word wars”
06 ┊ Pumpkin Carving ⋆ 287/250 words ⋆ 350 points
07 ┊ Prison Break ⋆ 750/500 words ⋆ 600 points
08 ┊ see “critique”
09 ┊ see “cabin wars 1”
10 ┊ Touching Grass by Having a Career Crisis ⋆ 286/250 words ⋆ 400 points
11 ┊ letter to (redacted) - no proof ⋆ 461/400 words ⋆ 500 points
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14 ┊ When The Skyline Shatters ⋆ 515/500 words ⋆ 600 points
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01 ┊ Ember, 5/11 ⋆ 222 words ⋆ win ⋆ 125 points
02 ┊ Seagull, 5/11 ⋆ 198 words ⋆ loss ⋆ 0 points
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01 ┊ Leopard, 09/11 ⋆ A Poetry Collection ⋆ critique ⋆ 821 words ⋆ 400 points
02 ┊ Gigi, 09/11 ⋆ Scene from Beetlebug ⋆ critique ⋆ 326 words ⋆ 0 points
03 ┊ partner + date ⋆ partner's piece ⋆ critique ⋆ 0/x words ⋆ points
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01 ┊ Character Bios for Character Swap ⋆ 1072 words
02 ┊ Critique for Leopard (see “Critique” for full details) ⋆ 821 words
03 ┊ Character Swap with Silvi ⋆ 328/300 words
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01 ┊ Afternoon News with Miranda Greaves and Casey Rassmusen ⋆ misc ⋆ 500 words
02 ┊ Afternoon News with Miranda Greaves and Casey Rassmusen (Edited) ⋆ misc ⋆ 720 words
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see, i wish i could make this all neat and everything but i just know that i'll never be able to keep it organised, so instead this will probably just be a list of links

daily 1
daily 2 flowers
daily 3 jellyfish
weekly 1

forth?

SIXTH—(seven)

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Toko's SWC Writing Thread November '25
27,610 / 50,000 words

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dailies

01 ○ intro ○ 1488 words
02 ○ flower daily ○ 823 words
03 ○ jellyfish day ○ 784 words
04 ○ songfic ○ 546 words
05 ○ word wars ○ 609 words
06 ○ pumpkin daily ○ 356 words
07 ○ multi-genre story ○ 794 words
10 ○ off-screens activity ○ 405 words
11 ○ remembrance day ○ 601 words
13 ○ personification ○ 918 words
14 ○ titles ○ 805 words

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weeklies

01 ○ 1508 words
02 ○ 1995 words

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word wars

01 ○ jigglypuff ○ won
02 ○ soki ○ lost

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critiques

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other

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claiming!!
edit: eighth :0

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Leopard’s writing Nov ‘25
(except this is as aesthetic as I get)

✩ dailies ✩
01/11/25 Intro
02/11/25 Flower daily
07/11/25 Mixed genres

✩ weeklies ✩

✩ other ✩
Poetry collection rough draft

claiming

edit: first page :0000

lucky number thirteen

title daily | 14 november

between the devil and the deep blue sea

we all know what a secret is. we all know they surround us, envelope our world in their reaches, cast their shadows even as we cannot make out their true shapes. we all have secrets, those we keep and those kept from us. my question is, can a thing really be secret? if we know there are secrets, if we can divine their shapes from the shadows they leave all about, can anything ever be truly unknown? how can anyone hide anything?

my father is obsessed with secrets. it runs in the family, i suppose. closest thing we have to a family trade. his father passed down the stories of yore, and back and back and back. at some point, someone told them for the first time. just as at some point, i heard them for the first time. both are lost memories, lost to time, lost to the fate of commonplace. are those secrets, when i can state so clearly a first time occurred? i am losing myself in this rabbit hole — secrets beget themselves. like my father, i am prone to wandering. like my father, my feet always lead me back to the sea.

the mind is a sea, goes the end of one such tale passed down through the generations. and the sea is a mind, is the typical response expected from the listener, following the structure of antithesis calls and responses take. these tales do not end happily ever after or with a thank you for the teller, but two statements turned on their heads. is the mind a sea, is the sea a mind, is anything anything?

my father knows the sea holds secrets, but anyone could tell you that. it’s as clear as the sky is blue. as certain as the sun shines. no, certainly far more reliable than the sky or the sun. sure as a man has lied, the sea holds secrets. two sides of the same coin. he is drawn to secrets, as am i, and we both must always keep the sea at arm’s length. we must carefully succumb to the temptation, only in brief spurts, or else risk drowning.

i think it may be too late for my father. he— breathes, still, i know this much is true. with great pain, heavy heaving breaths, but he has not yet passed into that cold bright forever. inevitable though his passage is, i must resolve to save him. he is all i have, besides the secrets, which, really, are just him in another form.

if he could wake, he would tell me not to go. that the sea sings to tempt me to his same fate. that i must escape what he cannot, and return when i have a son of my own.

he would tell me to never, never, bargain with the devil. the one who deals out fate, who counts the cards, who tallies the final scores. his the voice sings above the waves of the sea, his the melody that sets the soundtrack to my daily life.

it’s a good thing my father cannot wake.

pumpkin daily | 6 november

food was a major matter of concern for their journey. and an easy topic of conversation that would not often devolve into arguing, as other topics would. so even when they were not eating, they were talking about their next meal, or reminescing about old favorites at the university's feasts, or lightheartedly debating about the best vegetable, fruit, meat, and nut. it felt good, to toss remarks back and forth, like there wasn't something fundamentally broken between them. to pretend that everything was alright, by sharing stories over bread.

as they followed a broad river north into the golden grasses of the plains, the space between settlements grew farther and farther. soon, it would be several days of walking before they came upon a small village where they could purchase more goods, so provisioning what they had became increasingly necessary. hunting wouldn't be possible, untrained as rejean was, pacifism that hugo vowed. so at last food would lead to arguing, in disagreements on how to best split the limited supply, and now there was nothing they could speak of without being at each others' throats.

hugo missed his friend and despised always being at odds. from the way rejean would squeeze his hand before meals, from the softness in his eyes when he saw it was hugo to wake him rather than some court attending, he suspected the feeling was mutual.

nevertheless, the gulf between them felt ever broadening and insurpassable. how could an apology work, when neither was willing to change his ways?

eventually, it was food that helped repair the bond. several days out from the previous village, really nothing more than three farms built around a dock and a well-stocked tavern, their supplies were waining. at night, when it came time to dine, rejean huffed off in frustration at the poor rations. hugo sighed and got to work, boiling water and slicing small bits of the loaf, cheese, and cured meat for each of them.

“hugo!” rejean's voice rang through the grass. “get a look at this!”

the ‘this’ in question was a patch of gourds, round and sunset orange and near the size of their torsos.

“pumpkins,” hugo said with awe. who knew they could be so beautiful?

“do you think–”

“could we–”

both spoke at the same time, worried the other might disagree.

“no, you go on,” rejean laughed.

“we should eat one, right?”

“i'm so glad we can agree.”

jellyfish daily | 3 november

To the stubborn young Vis, the practices and histories of the Rojan church were beyond silly, beyond preposterous, moving into the territory of insulting to her intellect. Obnoxious, to suppose that the world was shaped by a single solitary god, who still was the only source of light and energy from the sun. Foolish, to think that such a powerful being would care for the little people of the world, to claim that your songs and clapping and stomping and burning of incense would be enough to call him back down to the world. She seethed through services, frowned at rituals, turned her nose up at the greetings and hands thrust upon her. But slowly her insistence would wane, worn away by years of exposure.

Not this day, though. This day, only a month after leaving her home and family and all familiar behind forever, Vis thought of their stories. Her favorite had always been of Lera, but she could not bear to recall that one now. Not with her mother gone, not with her father's betrayal.

Another neared Lera in her affections. The creation of the bay and the islands dotting it and the trickling streams up the side of the coast. All perfection of her home, a gift from a benevolent creature. The tale of the jellyfish.

Sacrifice was a common theme of stories in Vis' village, so of course as a child she would come to idolize it. The holy jellyfish's sacrifice differs from others, for a jellyfish is a creature, and people are people. Vis always felt a bit of a creature, but she would never tell anyone that. Maybe her purpose was to give up her body, that her village would live in paradise another thousand years.

The jellyfish tale begins like most others. “Here, but long ago, near younger than memories…” Vis always liked that. Far better that vagueness than the unearned certainty of the Rojan calendar.

From there, however, the story differs. Branches. Feels strange and out of place, a tale from another tradition. Maybe that drew her in, just as the jellyfish's creaturehood did.

The jellyfish was a peaceful wanderer, swimming the waters of the wide ocean. He did not mind the crashing of the waves on the sea, nor the cold depths of the ocean's bottom. He lived between extremes, in balance, a paradise perfect for him.

Nothing ever changed in the jellyfish's life, and he never knew that anything could change, until he heard the cries of a human from the shore.

Shores were not a pleasant place for the jellyfish. Too hot, too dry, not enough food. Shores were meant for humans, but not this one. Storms battered the exposed coastline, taking lives and destroying villages and ruining crop yields. The humans had nothing to protect them, and turned to desperately pleading with the winds and the rains to cease.

No ceasing came. The jellyfish watched on, from a distance, as waves continued to batter their homes and flood away their livelihoods. He wondered what a paradise this land could be for them, if only someone would listen.

He could not speak to the winds and the rains anymore than he could speak to the humans, but he understood the meaning of sacrifice. He now wanted after change.

With a capacity incomprehensible to humans, the jellyfish became the water. He pushed out sand from the shore's bottom, shaping barrier islands around a new bay. With his tentacles, he sought fresh water springs and pulled them out into streams. He lay to sleep at the bay's bottom, satisfied with the paradise he created. He did not care for thanks or praise, only that the humans preserve his sacrifice and find joy in it.

1k intro | 1 november

hello hello! i'm lio, a camper in realisitic fiction this session. november 2025 is my seventeenth session of swc, which is absolutely insane, i can't believe i've been taking part in this camp for so long. i'm currently a junior in college, studying geography and linguistics which is lowkey a degree in real-life worldbuilding, so it only makes sense that my favorite part of writing would be worldbuilding. (wow i am less than one hundred words into this thing and am already all over the place. let's go rambling one kay intros! an epic tradition.) so yeah i really like writing and stories in general, hence my continuing to be a part of this community and camp. but besides reading and writing, i also really like hiking (long nighttime walks my beloved), rockclimbing, and drawing (mostly doodles lately). travel is one of my favorite things, i love experiencing new places and noticing all the little details others might overlook – my interests in geography and urbanism definitely influence this instinct of mine. i also greatly enjoy music and movies and tv, but i spend more time watching youtube than doing any of that (which i definitely need to change but videos are so fun okay.)
lately i've been getting really into fleetwood mac which is maybe a little silly to say – “oh i've been enjoying one of the most critically acclaimed and popular rock bands of all time aren't i so cultured” – but they're popular for a reason! the music is good! hearing about all the interpersonal drama that took place behind the scenes, it's just crazy that they kept it going for as long as they did.
speaking of recent interests in massively popular things: dc comics! since watching the superman movie over this past summer, i've definitely fallen into the revival of the dc fandom. i haven't read that many comics but i've liked the ones that i have – specifically the recent nightwing run and dark knights of steel. i want to read absolute wonder woman she seems so cool. but otherwise figuring out a place to start is stressful (this introduction has turned into writing down whatever thoughts come into my head first because i am doing this all in the most dangerous writing app so jotting down any random thought that floats into my mind let's me not have all my work get deleted instantly). but yeah! batman is cool and superman is cool and i like when they get shipped together hashtag superbat.
i have a reading goal of 50 books for this year and it's looking like i will not quite reach that by the end of december (i'm about five books behind at the moment) but reading comics is kinda helping out (i count the collected volumes, not the individual issues, so i think it's fair game).
looking back on my year of reading so far, i have reread so many books. more than usual. i guess i have just been in the mood for the familiar, with the state of the world around us. ugh don't even get me started on the state of the world around us i could write over one thousand about just that but it would put me in a bad mood so i won't. instead let's think about some of the good books i have read this year. i read the archive undying, which is probably my favorite (non-reread) i have read this year. it was a lot, but the style and the characters and the vibes were so immaculate. i also read frostbite, a non-fiction about refridgeration, this summer, which i think about almost constantly and has certainly shifted the way i look at food and fridges.
speaking on food, because for some reason i am just going with the flow here instead of sticking to any sort of plan (pantsing rather than plotting, if you will), i have recently been getting into cooking! i've made pizza with a variety of toppings, delicious vegetable curry, chili which was easy and delicious especially with homemade bread bowls, and just last night i made a giant thing of buffalo chicken dip for my friends and a halloween hangout. it was absolutely way too much dip but hey it tastes good and we can eat dip for days! i used to be scared of cooking because i am a perfectionist and i want to be good at everything, but now i have cooked a little and i am less scared. yippee!
alright going into the final two hundred fifty word stretch! so far this intro has been a rambling mess but the whole point is to be that, in my opinion, it loosens you up and gets you ready to write other things, a great warm up for the first writing of the month.
continuing to reflect on the past year, which how is it almost done that is crazy, i think it has overall been quite good. besides the whole world falling apart thing. but i have experienced some pretty cool things – i went to guatemala over spring break to learn about agroecology and cultural interactions between indigenous people and ladinos, which was absolutely life changing and such an important injection of positivity into the first half of the year. over the summer, i got to see my favorite band (lord huron) in concert two times and visited denver for the first time. casa bonita was so fun and i think about it a lot. i went to new york again, yay for the greatest city in the world, and have taken the train many many times. i wonder just how many times, that would be an interesting thing to see stats about. i went to the mountains three weekends in a row in october and got to see some great fall vistas. over the summer i walked about 50 unique miles of my city's streets in the first stretch of a long term project to walk every street. yeah, not so bad a year at all.
and how am i aiming to finish this year off with a massive project? a goal that i will probably not reach but hey why not try anyways? my major goal for this month is to write a fifty thousand word novel – that's right, i'm finally attempting nanowrimo. wish me luck!

sixteenth whoo!! : D hehe

☆૮꒰ˊᗜˋ* ꒱ა starrii's november writing tracker ꒰ྀིっ˕ -｡꒱ྀི

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01 ┊ skylar for the template <33
02 ┊SWC for existing

Elly’s SWC Writing Folder

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hi! i’m elly, and this is my 3rd session of swc! i use she/her pronouns and i live in utc. i’m really excited :zany: and will be trying to bypass my word goal of 40k. i’m co-leading gothic this time! GOTHIC FOR THE WINNN <3

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☆ Dailies:

1 | link ⋅ 1,102 words ⋅ n/a
2 | link ⋅ 623/500 words ⋅ 600 points
3 | link ⋅ 478/400 words ⋅ 500 points
4 | link ⋅ 380/300 words ⋅ 450 points
5 | n/a ⋅ word wars
6 | link ⋅ 279/250 words ⋅ 350 points
7 | link ⋅ 607/500 words ⋅ 600 points
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1 | link ⋅ 1251/1000 words ⋅ 2000 points
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☆ Word Wars:

1 | against kit ⋅ 388 words ⋅ lost ⋅ link ⋅ n/a
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1 | for zephy ⋅ 641 words ⋅ link ⋅ 400 points
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☆ Cabin Wars:

1 | 50 headed hydra ⋅ link ⋅ 466 words ⋅ 25 points
2 | activity ⋅ link ⋅ words ⋅ points
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1 | movie review ⋅ link ⋅ 193/150 words ⋅ 0 points
2 | weird voices ⋅ link ⋅ 241 words ⋅ 0 points
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☆ Useful Links:

⋅ main cabin
⋅ gothic cabin
⋅ my word count
⋅ critiquitaire
⋅ word wars

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6,222/40,000 words added so far ^^

» ————————————— ⋙ ✪ Sage's 2025 November Writing Thread ✪ ⋘ ————————————— «

◩ Daily Task ⊹ ₊
- Daily Task 01: Introduce Yourself
- Daily Task 02: Flower Daily (To Be Completed)
- Daily Task 03: Jellyfish Daily
- Daily Task 04: Song Incorporation Daily
- Daily Task 05: Word Combat
- Daily Task 06: Pumpkin Daily
- Daily Task 07: Genre Daily (To Be Completed)
- Daily Task 08: Critique Daily
- Daily Task 09: Cabin Wars (Nothing To Put Here)
- Daily Task 10: Break Daily
- Daily Task 11: Appreciation Daily (To Be Completed)
- Daily Task 12: Kindness Daily (Nothing to put here but I did it)
- Daily Task 13: Personification Daily
- Daily Task 14: Title Daily
- Daily Task 15: Three Word Stories

◩ Weekly Asignments ⊹ ₊
- Weekly Assignment 01: Genre Weekly
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◩ Training (Word Wars) ⊹ ₊
- Training with Oak
- Training with Ember
- Training with Ayla
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◩ Missions (Critiquaire) ⊹ ₊
- Mission 01: The Queen and The Soldier
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◩ EXTRA DATA (aka Misc.) ⊹ ₊
- Agent Elysium (FILES)